9-11 Conspiracy Smasher notes, with some amusement, that the “enlightened” posters on the Loose Change forums believe in all types of conspiracies. Freemasons are a popular target for those who see plots against them everywhere, and as if to prove that no good deed goes unpunished, a forum user posted this recently:

“A friend’s son ( 5 years old) recently came home from school with a card with his fingerpints on it and the suggestion he save “finger nail clippings” and on the card was the Freemason logo.

Here is the website that was on the card. Can someone cache this before it disappears?

http://www.ctchip.org/

Notice the”chip” in the site name. 😮 “

The site being referenced is this one which to be fair I thought was a hoax when I first saw it. The Freemasons are on the receiving end of a lot of paranoid mouth foaming, so they should have thought a little harder about how their campaign to keep children safe might be construed by the anti-Mason set, and designed a program accordingly.

On the other hand, they do good work, and despite what conspiracy theorist imply, there are no microchips involved. Masons in several state are setting up child identification programs where kids are given “kits” that have items in it thought helpful for the parents of missing children to have on hand if the unthinkable happens. From the programs main website:

Identifying Items Include:

• Fingerprints and physical descriptions card.
• Brief recorded interview on VHS video tape or CD-Rom disc that shows the child’s mannerisms, speech pattern and provides details on places they frequent.
• Dental impression generated by qualified volunteers (using Toothprints® wafer) provides a 3-dimentional dental record that can be used for identification. (Inclusion of this item defines a program as “comprehensive”.)
• DNA sample generated by Saliva and cheek skin cells accumulated on the Toothprints® wafer sealed uncontaminated in a zip-lock bag. This also serves as a scent tracer for police tracking dogs to follow.
• Abduction Prevention Education provided to parents and children during the event or as a hand out included inside the ID kit, increases public awareness about the risk of abduction or exploitation our children now face in today’s society, and provides them with useful safety tips and prevention techniques.

Seems like a good program to me, but of course if you’re prone to getting your information from Educate-Yourself.org you’d be incapable of seeing this as anything but a part of the vast conspiracy, which in this case seems to be a conspiracy to make it harder for pedophiles to abduct children.