[mabelkitty]

And what about HIPPA? My right to my own medical records and treatments via my private cash contributions to my insurance companies.

Why should they government have a database on this?

You are willingly giving up freedoms to law enforcement. Why would you do such a thing?

[Black Agnes]

So he/she/it can be *safe* from all those nasty criminals! HIPAA aux. Why W supports it and didn't do anything about the nasty bits is still a mystery to me.

[kesg]

You are willingly giving up freedoms to law enforcement. Why would you do such a thing?

But I'm not. The freedom worth valuing and protecting is freedom of thought and action, subject only to the limitation that in so acting I don't deprive others of their freedom of thought and action. I don't see how giving a DNA sample infringes upon this freedom, and I see many ways in which it may enhance that freedom by enabling the government to do a better job of law enforcement than it otherwise could do without this information.