Romney Signs DNA Bill-ALL PERSONS Having ANY Felony Convictions Must Submit Sample to State

The Boston Globe - Raphael Lewis ^ | November 12, 2003 | JT8D

[jt8d]

Romney to sign DNA bill today

Measure to cover all felons in state

By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff, 11/12/2003

All convicted felons in Massachusetts, from those who commit murder to those who steal live poultry, will be required to submit DNA samples to the State Police under a controversial bill being signed today by Governor Mitt Romney.

The legislation, which will expand the state's DNA database from 20,000 samples to nearly 100,000, has enjoyed bipartisan support on Beacon Hill and has been lauded by law enforcement authorities and the relatives of crime victims. John and Magdalen Bish, whose 16-year-old daughter was abducted from her Warren lifeguard post and murdered in June 2000, will be on hand for the signing ceremony today in Sudbury, home of the State Police crime laboratory, where the forensic data and samples are kept.

But even as Romney tells those gathered today that "the long arm of the law just got a little longer," detractors fear that the new law represents a serious encroachment on privacy rights, mostly because several of the hundreds of felonies on the books are low-level offenses. A felony is any crime for which those convicted can be sent to a state prison...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/11/12/romney_to_sign_dna_bill_today/

[jt8d]

Gotta Read... This is a very bad development.

[Iscool]

These commies must figure the timing is correct and the masses will fall into line...

[Maceman]

I really don't have a problem with this at all. We are talking about CONVICTED felons here.

[medscribe]

Mitt Romney a commie!?!? LMAO!!!

[Senator Pardek]

I wonder what happens to the DNA samples of those "felons" who are later exonerated...

[Sir Gawain]

I really don't have a problem with this at all. We are talking about CONVICTED felons here.

You gotta turn up the water slowly, or the frog will jump out.

[Dog]

LOL!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Isn't Romney a Republican?

[glock rocks]

yep, Mitt Romney ran the 2002 olympics in Salt Lake.

[EggsAckley]

Did you know that it is a FELONY to steal avacados from an orchard?

[Servant of the 9]

Gotta Read... This is a very bad development.

I don't see this as any different than taking fingerprints from everyone arrested.

So9

[Lijahsbubbe]

I wonder what happens to the DNA samples of those "felons" who are later exonerated...

They'll find a match from the general population, after they make us all submit samples just for that purpose.

[Servant of the 9]

Did you know that it is a FELONY to steal avacados from an orchard?

As hard as it is to grow avacados in an orchard in Mass. it should be.

So9

[glock rocks]

this blade cuts both ways. dna can exonerate convictees. many states already dna test all convicted sex offenders.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Thanks. I'm going to place this one in my "But he can win!" file ;-)

[glock rocks]

LOL!!

well, then again it is massachusetts.

[ServesURight]

Pretty soon it'll be you or your family, then you'll be screaming "But I thought they were on OUR side."

[SoulStorms]

I really don't have a problem with this at all. We are talking about CONVICTED felons here.

Think about what you're saying. Anything can be made a felony, from murder to having a joint in your pocket.

Here in California, law abiding gunowners jumped through all the existing hoops to buy a certain legally manufactured firearm. A couple years ago they were told that those weapons had to be turned over to the state, or their mere possession would be a felony after the deadline.

The legal activity you enjoyed today, friend, could easily become the felony of tomorrow; will you have a problem with a law like this then?

[Colinsky]

I really don't have a problem with this at all. We are talking about CONVICTED felons here.

Just wait a few more years until speeding tickets are retroactively made into felonies.

[TLI]

I really don't have a problem with this at all.

I really don't have a problem with this at all... YET.

Unless you are a bubble boy these little communists pukes have a few plans for you as well. They just need to keep a voting block on the side of this bs to keep it looking "legal."

Personally, I would tell the screechy little flamers to KMA.

TLI