Mark of the Beast: Does the government want to make you glow in the dark?

Scientists around the world have been injecting fluorescent jellyfish proteins into variety of animals in recent months, from mice to sheep, and earlier this week researchers from the Univeristy of Hawaii announced that they have successfully created cloned glow-in-the-dark rabbits.

The latest team involved in producing glowing animals are from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Biogenesis Research, and have recently succeeded in producing a litter of eight rabbits, two of which glow bright green in the dark.  Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a researcher involved in the project, claims that the rabbits are not affected by the fluorescent protein and that they will have the same life expectancy and regular non-glowing rabbits.  “And on top of it, their fur is beginning to grow and the greenness is shining right through their fur. It’s so intense,” added Dr. Moisyadi.

Moisyadi plans to introduce these mutant genes into larger animals, in the hopes of creating less expensive medicines.  “Sheep, cows, and even pigs,” Dr. Moisyadi said to KHON2.com. “The benefits in doing it in large animals is to create bio-reactors that basically produce pharmaceuticals that can be made a lot cheaper.

But is the goal really to produce cheaper drugs, or is this part of plan to “brand” certain humans with the “mark of the beast”?

At least one critic thinks so.  Anna Newburg, editor of the popular blog Journal of the Bizarre, points out that the United States government is footing the bill for these experiments.

“According to the Institute for Biogenesis Research’s website, the institute holds more than $12 million in government grant awards,” states Newburg, “which means that good old Uncle Sam is financially backing these glow-in-the-dark experiments.”

“With all of the government conspiracy talk floating around these days, one can easily imagine an America where certain ‘undesirables’ are unknowingly injected with genetic material, perhaps genetic material that glows under black light, for instance,” she says.  “One wave of a wand during a traffic stop or at the airport could alert your friendly neighborhood DHS or NSA agent that the “mark of the beast” is present, and the next thing you know, you just might find yourself rotting away in a secret government prison camp.”

Conspiracy theorists have imagined that the “mark of the beast” could be anything from a bar code tattooed onto the human body to a microchip implanted under our skins.  “If the government wanted to track and monitor certain individuals, these aforementioned methods would be somewhat impractical,” states Newburg.  “After all, implanting a microchip would involve abducting the chosen individual, rendering them unconscious, and then surgically implanting a mechanical device- and then hoping that the victim doesn’t notice the surgical incision.”

“But injecting someone with genetic material, such as a material that glows under certain lighting conditions, would be virtually impossible for anyone to detect.  It could be surreptitiously injected into your body by your local family doctor when you get a flu shot, or by your dentist when he injects you with Novocaine.  It could be added to vaccines given to children.  And the scary part is that you will never know.”

These genetic experiments are taking place at a time in which our rights and freedoms are being stripped away at an alarming rate.  Construction on the largest top-secret government facility in America will begin in September.  The National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center is a $2 billion facility designed to store intelligence data on the scale of yottabytes (for the record, one yottabyte is equal to 100,000,000,000 gigabytes).  Whistleblowers claim that this data center will have the capacity to store every private email, cellphone call, and Internet search ever made or written.  Experts predict that the electricity bill alone for the Utah Data Center will run about $40 million a year, since the annual power demand will be in the vicinity of 65 megawatts.

Factor in Obamacare and other mandates which will grant the government total control of your body, and suddenly the idea of marking American citizens with glowing genetic material in an attempt to monitor our every move doesn’t seem so far-fetched.