Re: Forced DNA Collection

17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net> writes:
Top Story on AP...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite objections from civil libertarians, the city's police commissioner proposed Monday to take a DNA sample along with the fingerprints of everyone arrested.
Commissioner Howard Safir said the test would solve crimes and help curb repeat offenders. ``The innocents have nothing to fear ... only if you are guilty should you worry about DNA testing,'' he said.
The Commissioner messed up the quote, it's actually: "I am returning to punish the guilty; the innocent have nothing to fear" - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 90BC, just before he massacred the innocent en masse. Peter.
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