[OldDeckHand]

What a HUGE mistake this is.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Walsh has done a lot of good over the years with his program.

He’s now become too self-important, it would seem. Time to retire, John.

[The Comedian]

How about birth certificate checks?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[freedumb2003]

>>What a HUGE mistake this is.<<

I am so ambivalent — I think the analogy to fingerprints is accurate.

But since it is more than just a marker of who I am and can be used in broader searches, I feel a part of me is given to the public domain on a potentially arbitrary decision by some cop having a bad night is patently wrong.

I will follow this thread with great interest.

[Drango]

DNA is just like fingerprints. Same thing, and this hysteria over DNA is like little old ladies worried that a camera can suck your spirit by taking a picture.

It’s an advanced identification tool. Deal with it.

[billorites]

"John Walsh extolled the virtues of collecting DNA at the time of an arrest and putting it into a single, national database."

Perhaps we should do this before nominating another space alien, left-wing pod person for president.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t mind so much taking DNA at arrest, and even running it to see if it matches other crimes — so long as it is destroyed if the person is found not guilty or the case is dismissed, or if it is locked up with the evidence and not available without a search warrant.

But it doesn’t surprise me that Obama would approve — he’s not a liberal in the traditional, leave people alone sense, he’s more of a fascist socialist, looking to control every aspect of our lives, including monitoring our every move.

[Typical_Whitey]

Exactly Obama wants it because it is POWER over the people.

I love watching liberals explain this crap away when I say imagine if Dick Cheney had this power at his disposal.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ I suppose we could pass a law requiring people to quit emitting DNA.

They do pass it out for free all over the place.

[A Strict Constructionist]

“What a HUGE mistake this is.”

Too many people watch CSI and believe the BS on that program.

[Hoodat]

This is too funny. Liberals screamed about privacy rights when President Bush tapped in on cellphone conversations in Pakistan and Yemen. But when Obama wants warrantless access to our DNA, liberals are silent. Go figure.

[IYAS9YAS]

If they pass this, and if I ever get arrested, I’ll give them a DNA sample they’ll never forget.

[valkyry1]

DNA taken for an arrest? This is very bad news.

[Revel]

A little DNA goes a long ways. Save it and use it to frame someone. And who knows what else could be done with it. Very bad.