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House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from CNET: "Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to require DNA samples, which could mean drawing blood with a needle, from adults 'arrested for' certain serious crimes. Not one Democrat voted against the database measure, which would hand out about $75 million to states that agree to make such testing mandatory. ... But civil libertarians say DNA samples should be required only from people who have been convicted of crimes, and argue that if there is probable cause to believe that someone is involved in a crime, a judge can sign a warrant allowing a blood sample or cheek swab to be forcibly extracted."
Wouldn't the results from a DNA test of a cheek swab of someone arrested for prostitution be, uh, somewhat confusing?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Sometime in the middle of the night, Karl Rove had the Democrat representatives kidnapped, cloned and their brains replaced with aging Republican brains so they could vote for this fascist law.
The original Democrats were then sent back in time thru a secret NSA time portal where the were placed on airliners and crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
The law dosen't apply to white-collar crimes. Guess that means we can steal all of our neighbors' money as long as we don't break into their houses.
Call into the anonymous tipline and accuse all of your Congressmen of buggery.
Fixed that.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Why do you need DNA databases with all the cameras to capture the event?
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
It would be far better to record DNA for everyone in America including tourists. That first rape may be the only crime a criminal ever commits. Tracking people from DNA is one great way to discourage crime.
Bonus points for getting wax imprints of your Congressman's fingerprints and leaving them in the victims' blood at a crime scene.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I'll do something about it tomorrow, American Idol is on tonight...
Somewhere in the Middle East, there is a group of Al Qaeda operatives sitting around smoking hookah under a banner that reads "Mission Accomplished"
And in the corner is one lone jihadi, the one who went to the notoriously liberal University of Tehran and who everyone says thinks too much, muttering "But this is but one small victory in a long and costly war! That banner and its declaration are completely inappropriate and premature!"
The enemies of Democracy are
I refuse to give my DNA. It is my sourcecode (4-bit sequence) and is copyright my parents (& myself via inheritance). No state should have the right to forcibly take my sourcecode and have the means to create clones or test-tube children of mine without my consent.
It is comparable to rape (rapist forcibly impregnates woman and creates child without woman's consent) and child kidnapping (means to create children without parent's care).
http://www.object404.com
Oh, fuck man! Where have you been? Those bastards have been stealing from everyone long before I was born. The IRS is their apparatus of choice,