At 12:25 PM -0400 10/18/00, David Honig wrote:
[forking the DNA discussion slightly]
On giving blood samples to police: I believe the supremes are going to hear a case about a hospital taking blood samples after delivery of a baby, running drug checks, and turning her over to the police immediately for child abuse.
In a case within the last year, some local woman had her baby taken immediately after birth because they drug tested her and found a sedative that her doctor had given her, but wasn't recorded so they figured it was recreational. She should be suing their asses off but only wanted an apology in the broadcast I intercepted. Maybe her kid will sue in 18 years, one hopes.
Maybe it's just me, but "suing their asses off" would hardly suffice...there's a long, and getting longer every day, list of abuses for which the only remedy I can imagine would be a car bomb incinerating one or all of the offenders. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.