DNA database ( Archived) (17)

Wow everyone gotta give their DNA...mandatory /law/ national security/ for apprehension of criminals...

would you sign up willingly, if required or you already volunteered?

sorta a "Pandoras box" the way laws and governments change thier thinking and that national security card the use for 101 different reasons.

I have no prior felony, drug or violent history. I'm not a pyscho trying to buy an arsenal of guns to destroy innocent lives, I'm not a serial killer or a celebrity stalker..in fact the worst I've done is gotten a speeding ticket about 5 years ago and that would be it.

Why should I be forced into submitting my DNA when I've done nothing to warrant be genetically fingerprinted for nothing but an invasion of my privacy??? I resent that implication and will not submit to anything like that willingly, the government would have to take me and haul me into court and JUSTIFY it to me with more reasons than which I could counterjustify it.

Why don't they go after the illegal immigrants in this country? Why don't they devote time and money to literacy programs and the education of our nations children? Why not attack the homeless/poverty issues or clean up New Orleans better? Why waste time, effort and vast resources on productive, law abiding, tax payers like me and go after all the rapists and child molesters in the US...a registry program followed up by due diligence would work wonders on that rampant situation......

All I'm saying is why try to take away more liberties and freedoms from the American people when there are many more pressing issues that could use more time and attention...IMHO

If you've got nothing to hide and it cuts crime where's the hassle
I think D.N.A. should be done at birth

Apart from maybe helping to catch murderers,rapists and child molesters and all kinds of perverts maybe a D.N.A. database could help in finding heart donors or kidney donors. Wouldn't you like to save a life

Especially if that life might be yours

And here my scientific mind kicks in.....there was actually some controversy over placing a patent on certain DNA sequences, which as far as I know has not been put into place...thank goodness. However DNA is an amazing thing, you can actually use the sequences, to determine certain things about a person, whether they will be ill or whatever (before they are even born) You can see if they are predisposed to certain diseases etc. DNA is a very amazing thing and the technology that we have could be very bad if in fact it got into the wrong hands....now my criminal justice mind...When I talk to people I know who work in forensics labs, and with the studies I have done on my own, one thing that I have determined, if you have DNA from a crime scene, if this person's DNA has never been found in a crime scene before, or the person was not in the military, it will not be in the system. So to a certain extent I do believe that it might be a good idea, however, this goes back to basic human rights, is giving a sample of your DNA unconstitutional, or inhumane??

No. Kicking kids and dogs is inhumane
Elephants are too big to be kicked and however have nothing to do with D.N.A.

Yep, I can see it now, Someone high up in the goverment need's a transplant..... I've put my D.N.A. in this database. low and behold!!! im a match.. now my D.N.A. shows up at a crime, and I get Death! just in time for that transplant!!