So now they have resorted to secretly tracking protestors through invisible, UV light pens. Perhaps they will move to simply tattooing people with an identification number in the future.
From Justin Elliott at Salon.com
Occupy protesters in Montreal were dismayed to find they had been marked by police with a special ink that is only visible in UV light after being arrested during a raid of Victoria Square Friday. …
“It felt very similar to some one drawing on you with a nail,” Haigh tells me. “It really wasn’t a pleasant feeling and I passed a good 24 hours wondering what they had done to me before my friends and I figured it out. I did get a rash from the ink for a few days and my hand was rather sensitive.”
She adds the marking faded after four days, “but I still feel my body was violated.”
To secretly mark peoples skin with a chemical agent for the purpose of future identification is a clear violation of every principle that defines a free society.
WHAT THE HELL? UV tattoos have not been approved by the FDA because of all the possible health risks associated with them. The chemicals in UV tattoos are not 100% safe for human skin and may even contribute to cancer. (source) The fact that people are being forcibly “branded” in this way completely baffles and pisses me off. What is this, the holocaust? Are they going to start starving and killing us next? I have lost all faith in our government and “authority figures.” This has gone too far. What, does the first amendment mean nothing anymore? I hope every single one of these assholes gets what he/she deserves. I hate humans.
