'The United Kingdom has finally gone ahead and let the world know their true intentions, to not only record every action you take, but also to have sample DNA on every citizen and visitor to the United Kingdom.
As reported in the BBC News yesterday, Lord Justice Sedley, a senior appellate judge, believes that the UK’s current system of only obtaining DNA from those arrested for a recordable offense is indefensible because “We have a situation where if you happen to have been in the hands of the police then your DNA is on permanent record. If you haven’t, it isn’t…It means where there is ethnic profiling going on disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities get onto the database..It also means that a great many people who are walking the streets and whose DNA would show them guilty of crimes, go free.”
The solution? Get that database larger making it mandatory to have the entire population’s DNA as well as visitors to the UK, even if only for the weekend. The logic behind this ingenius, if not terrifying rationale? “”Going forwards has very serious but manageable implications,” he insisted. It means that everybody, guilty or innocent, should expect their DNA to be on file for the absolutely rigorously restricted purpose of crime detection and prevention.”
Ah the Brits, you have to love their perception of privacy. It’s only a matter of time before this great idea is proposed in Congress and they forget about that old Constitution of ours. My personal thought is that the Brits are just tired of Americans hopping the pond and figure this will put an end to that real quick. That way they can get American Idol without the tourists.
I’m moving to New Zealand.