They Huey P. Newton Reader

3261 The Hue. P. Newton Reader
Offender:" which is "out of stock," according to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare, which financed its preparation.
The HEW thesis is that social or cultural Of, finally, political "rehabilitation"
begins inside the nervous system of the citizen. A mini a­
rurizcd radio transmitter, implanted inside the brain or body, can
monitor and transmit the conversations, locations, even the sexual
responses of the subject twenty-four hours a day. The report explains
that sewed up inside the subject's body along with the transponder
would be a radio-controlled electric-shock device. This device could
deliver punishment to the "offender" anywhere in the world.
Who are the "offenders" or subjects? The author of the monograph,
Professor Ralph K. Schwitzgebel of Harvard University, dwells on
homosexuals, but later in the monograph he talks about an "offender's
financial matters," and "disputes over financial obligations," and, ominously,
"socially troublesome persons."
The paper predicts that "microminiaturization" will permit nearpermanent
"intra-cranial stimulation." Since the new program would
relate to "civil" rather than "criminal" situations, we arc assured that
the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause of the Eighth Amendment
to the Constitution would not present any serious obstacle to
implementation of the plan. A euphemism for castration, "sterilization"
is given as an example of a technique that is "more likely to be
upheld