Posted on 03/18/2010 10:44:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Will those Americans who bitterly oppose registration of their guns, for example, go along quietly with the registration of their genetic codes?
That's not quite what Obama is calling for, but it's a short slide down the slippery slope from keeping the DNA profiles of arrestees to keeping the profiles of everybody. And you don't have to be a so-called “birther” or “gun nut” to care about your privacy.
In an interview with the president on the 100th episode of America's Most Wanted, host John Walsh strongly suggested collecting the DNA profiles of arrestees into a single, national database...
For the past 12 years the federal government has collected DNA in the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, which was launched to collect the codes of convicted sex offenders and certain other classes of felons. More recently the FBI has begun to include the DNA profiles of arrestees from more than a dozen states that currently collect DNA upon arrest, whether there is a conviction or not.
...It didn't take more than two days after Obama made his views known before The New York Times ran a well-reasoned op-ed by Yale law student Michael Seringhaus calling for the government to keep every American's DNA profile on file, arrested or not...
In the United States, since blacks and Latinos are more likely to be arrested, rightly or wrongly, it is more likely their DNA will be sampled. Troubling as that may be, especially to me as an African-American, it is not a strong argument against data collection as a crime-fighting tool. After all, in the felonies associated with these arrests, blacks and Latinos are more likely to be the victims of the crime — or, in some cases, wrongfully convicted for lack of DNA evidence...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
More deviltry from the 0bamanation..
More like the redcoats every day...
Maybe Nobama can give his DNA and find out who his real daddy was.
I could see a system which permits people to choose to put their DNA on file, for example if one was worried about becoming a victim and wanted it to be easier for detectives to identify any remains or clues. Calling back a file entry would be allowed by in-person request.
I don’t see how Mr. Page reasons that requiring this would help exonerate anybody. If I were wrongly accused and DNA was found at the scene of the crime, I would furnish my DNA at that point, and only for purposes of comparison to the crime evidence.
There are some moves to encourage all parents to get their childrens’ DNA on file when they are born or enter school.
It’s possible to drop DNA evidence (cigarette butts, hair clippings, etc) at the scene of a crime. Seems that if they want to make a WildAssedGuess at whodoneit, they would be starting with the conclusion and then trying to locate evidence to support that conclusion.
We’ve already seen it with the cases of the anthrax attacks and the first suspect in the Olympic park bombing (determine the perp and then search for clues to make the case). The Duke LaCrosse players were also railroaded.
For some prosecutors, it isn’t about justice, it’s about clearing cases off the books and political advancement (show them you are tough on crime).
No thanks. I'll pass on this Tyranny. Generally, it's not a good idea to hand the government Tyrannical Power on a silver platter...
They are trying to pass this right now. The Healthcare bill will establish a national healthcare database that will inevitably be tapped for “crime solving” purposes at some point.
GE is already running commercials bragging that they are going to be the ones that run the database for us.
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