Why you should be pissed off if the government forcibly takes your DNA.
A further response to the post below:
1. Your DNA says a lot about you, i.e., general health, ethnic background, genetic predispostions, etc. Think about how badly that could go wrong if someone knew that you carried cancer genes, or were predisposed to violence or mental disorder. Fetuses with so-called deformities are aborted quite regularly, so it’s not like it isn’t in the American mindset to get rid of people that aren’t physically or mentally perfect.
2. You can never run and hide if the government can identify you out of 300 million people. You should have the right to not exist, as long as you don’t bother anyone else.
3. An arrest is not the same as a conviction, ever. There is a major distinction between being accused of a crime by some freak or overzealous cop, versus being convicted of a crime by a halfway decent legal system and an alleged jury of your peers, with legal counsel.
4. Fingerprinting is a joke compared to DNA. Fingerprinting is an extremely inexact science. DNA can identify you out of millions of people and is very rarely wrong.
5. I’d rather a few guilty people go free than give up even more rights. Enough civil rights have been very happily relinquished by stupid Americans in the past decade.
