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."

Comments

Cheek swabs

[Locke2005]

Wouldn't the results from a DNA test of a cheek swab of someone arrested for prostitution be, uh, somewhat confusing?

Re:Action:

[Vinegar Joe]

Call into the anonymous tipline and accuse all of your Congressmen of buggery.

Fixed that.

Re:We are looking to tone ours down

[funwithBSD]

Why do you need DNA databases with all the cameras to capture the event?

Re:"Not one Democrat voted against"

[rsborg]

You can vote right wing or you can vote left wing but both wings are on the same bird

That Uncle Sam is flipping you.

Re:Action:

[camperdave]

Bonus points for getting wax imprints of your Congressman's fingerprints and leaving them in the victims' blood at a crime scene.

Re:Not right

[kd5zex]

I'll do something about it tomorrow, American Idol is on tonight...

Re:Whatever happened to

[Chris Burke]

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!"

Sourcecode

[naz404]

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).