Posted on 06/03/2013 5:43:43 PM PDT by South40
Often in a criminal case fingerprints are not part of the crime scene but DNA might be.
Today it would make no difference. Dedicated researchers would have had the toilets rigged and there’d be an airtube tapping his breath!
I don’t intend to be committing any crimes (at least nothing that’s seriously illegal today).
They have no need of my DNA.
legal ping
AMEN!
Sir, I stopped you because your liscense plate light is burned out. Say ah.
Maybe the IRS and all gov’t agencies have people ID themselves by giving a DNA sample? It’s the only way to be sure...yeah that’s the ticket...a separate database for teapartiers of course. Once their imaginations run wild with what they can do with all these DNA samples only God knows what will happen.
Yes - and how long before they determine that you have “prohibited genes” and require much higher insurance premiums or deny medical coverage at all for conditions or sterilization or worse?
I find it hard to see how DNA v. photographs v. fingerprints is not just a matter of degree not kind. So I guess I think the government should be allowed to take all three [or none is someone can make the case] if you are arrested, in the military etc.
But I also think that once you are unemcumbered by the government, the government should have to destroy all such material. Certainly when you leave the military or you are not charged or acquitted, your private image, fingerprints and DNA should be no longer kept by the government. I think you can further make the case that even if you are convicted, once you have served your sentence and are no longer subject to government control, these materials should not longer belong to the government.
I am with Scalia. He is a moral force in this country.
I’ve been watching Orphan Black on BBC America. Interesting discovery by the clones in the season finale that their genes were copywritten as intellectual property.
Scalia is right. This is creeping tyranny.
So far they don’t record every element of your personal genome ~ just enough to ID you ~ someday they’ll be able to recreate your persona from your DNA, interrogate your replicant, then execute you ~ probably a lot sooner than is comfortable, but that’s not what they are doing.
Lois Lerner will make sure that process is fair:Not really cause fair to democrats is if you are conservative then you are guilty
“Hey, come on - what about urine, blood, and stool samples!”
If they want my underwear, they can have it... (rim shot)
Want an approved government license? CCW , hunting/fishing license? Maybe a state drivers license? Applying for a work card? Maybe getting approval through a state board? Be prepared to hand over a DNA sample, along with your finger print card. It’s coming folks. Thanks to the SCOTUS.
Things are very different, ideologically, in the Judicial Branch from how they are in the legislative and executive branches.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, though they differ in their judicial opinions, are good friends and often go to the opera together. The two even appeared onstage as party guests in the opera “Ariadne auf Naxos. “ They try to have lunch together once a week when the Court is in session.
Let’s say the CF theory is correct and folks who don’t have a mutant CF gene will die if they contract the black plague (in any form). So, which gene is ‘prohibited’ and which gene is ‘necessary’?
I think there is a time in the near future that people just aren’t going to care about it. Not in the sense of apathy, but in the sense of John Hancock writing his signature large so that “King George could read it without his spectacles”.
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