Federal Government wants the DNA database to include arrestees

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tyme

Administrator
s.1606, no longer in the Senate Judiciary Committee
It has been approved by the committee and is going to the floor for a vote. Contact your senators now!
Introduced on 7/29 by Jon Kyl, AZ
Sponsored by John Cornyn, TX

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:s.01606:

The worrying portion:
(a) In General- Section 3 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135a) is amended--

(1) in subsection (a)--

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking `The Director' and inserting the following:

`(A) The Attorney General may, as prescribed by the Attorney General in regulation, collect DNA samples from individuals who are arrested or detained under the authority of the United States. The Attorney General may delegate this function within the Department of Justice as provided in section 510 of title 28, United States Code, and may also authorize and direct any other agency of the United States that arrests or detains individuals or supervises individuals facing charges to carry out any function and exercise any power of the Attorney General under this section.
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Infuriating. :mad:



All for the cover "purpose" of trying to keep us safe from crime, right? :rolleyes: :barf:


More like just tightening the noose around the neck of liberty.


-blackmind
 
This is all so ugly, tyme.
I don't blame it on Bush as the motive factor....though he plays a real major part since refusing to veto the first Patriot Act (which, of course, we all remember **both** parties voting for overwhelmingly).

These past 5 years have delivered us further into the bowels of a Police State than I could have believed.....thanks to an aligning of the stars of Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches. And the "People" appear to be clamoring for more-o-same with the move to allow fedgov to take over Sovereign States by whim.

We definitely need a third party in this nation. I see zero difference in the Two, other than the specific Bill-O-Rights they've targeted. In the end, Both will take ***all***.
Rich
 
I firmly believe that a whole lot of people consider the 9/11 attacks a godsend...they've been able to push more police state legislation through in four years than they could have done in twenty without a convenient and sufficiently scary new boogeyman.

"War on Terror", how delightful. To me, it looks like a blank check for government expansion, and both parties are busily writing in a number with long line of zeros.
 
:D,

I don't know where I stand on this:

"First they came for my DNA because I was active duty military and it was mandatory, and nobody came to help me"

Air Force, 1997, mandatory DNA samples given to the feds. Had to go to the dentist office on base and get swabbed and fill out a form with a "golf" pencil (the one without the eraser and really short).

The feds have so much of my information that they probably know more about me then I do about myself.

With every active duty here and with others, they have our finger prints (and know your background if you have ever had a high security clearance), your DNA, your picture, and now with having to get fingerprints for CCW/CHL every fed database has you in some system somewhere. And don't even think that they can't pull DNA off the cards, if they can do it from a latent fingerprint at the scene of a crime, they can do it off a card.

Yet, just because they've got me on file, I will fight against those that aren't to stay off file.

I may be screwed, but that doesn't mean that I need to wish everyone to get screwed also.

Wayne

(So, I really do know where I stand :D ).
 
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