[BOOTSTICK]

You see, it's like this, you commit a crime, you lose your civil rights. OK?, next topic please.

[Lijahsbubbe]

You see, it's like this, you commit a crime, you lose your civil rights. OK?, next topic please.Ha ha, tell that one to illegal immigrants, they get perks for breaking the law.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Anything you enjoy doing today, may?will become a crime tomorrow.

Especially if you live in *assachusetts.

[Old Professer]

You see, it's like this - government redefines crime continuously, civil rights are engraved in stone (at least, they used to be).

[Conservative til I die]

You see, it's like this, you commit a crime, you lose your civil rights. OK?, next topic please.

Really? I was unaware that convicted criminals (or are you including accused criminals too?) lose their rights to practice their religion, practice free speech or free association, and several other civil rights.

If you think it stops at just criminals, you're pretty naive.

[jt8d]

"You see, it's like this, you commit a crime, you lose your civil rights. OK?, next topic please."

Anything may be defined as a crime. In 1938 Germany, it was a crime to be Jewish--eventually punishable by death.

In Connecticut, it is a crime to carry a pocket knife in your vehicle--or any other type of "weapon." The problem is that anything may be defined as a "weapon"--the only distinguishing characterisic is WHO writes the definition. The day will come when some elitist may define your humble existance into being a criminal act--a felony--and some thoughtful individual will say: "You see, it's like this, you commit a crime, you lose your civil rights. OK?, next topic please."

This is not about "solving" crimes. This is about de-sensitizing the population into accepting a Police State:

Today, the State will take DNA "only" from "felons," and, of course, the sheeple will all say "Hey, great idea--after all THEY are criminals." The fact that most of these people have long since paid their debt, and are probably now living productive responsible lives, causes not even a slight twinge of conscience. Sure, today we are told: "Oh, its only for those who are incarcerrated, on parole, or on probation." Intent means little. What matters is capability--the capacity to do harm. The State giveth--and the State taketh away.

Tomorrow, Big Brother will decree that "for reason of crime prevention" your children will all need to have their DNA sampled" in order to attend public school.

Then the gun owners will be required to provide DNA in order to secure an License To Carry.

And so on... Each day, government takes a little nibble--an infringment--upon your rights. Oh, it is just a minor violation of that "living" document--the Constitution. Things have changed... we have to adapt, etc..

This is how they went after the smokers. This is how they went after the gun owners and manufacturers. This is how they are targeting the fast food industry. But nobody seems to be paying attention to the method of choice: infringment.