What’s to stop police and prosecutors from planting DNA evidence in the same way they plant other evidence? From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”—Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Maryland v. King
Be warned: the DNA detectives are on the prowl.
Whatever skeletons may be lurking on your family tree or in your closet, whatever crimes you may have committed, whatever associations you may have with those on the government’s most wanted lists: the police state is determined to ferret them out.
In an age of overcriminalization, round-the-clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other.
No longer can we consider ourselves innocent until proven guilty.
Now we are all suspects in a DNA lineup waiting to be matched up with a crime.
Suspect State, meet the Genetic Panopticon.
DNA technology in the hands of government officials will complete our transition to a Surveillance State in which prison walls are disguised within the seemingly benevolent trappings of technological and scientific progress, national security and the need to guard against terrorists, pandemics, civil unrest, etc.
By accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your health history, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc.
It’s getting harder to hide, even if you think you’ve got nothing to hide.
Round the block surveillance with the Chivatos that Tony Montana (Scarface 1983) spoke of.
An unseen army of busybody Karen (both sexes) snitches too big for their britches.
I carry exam gloves in pockets, quit smoking back in the early 1990’s when it was about $1.25 a pack, prepare my own food and never eat out, H20 is the drink with an energy drink as a treat sometimes.
Cans are taken to the recycler when enough bags are accumulated.
Never owned a sailfoam (cellphone) or bank account, no email since the early 2000’s.
Take my trash to the dumpsters behind the Sack-N-Save while sometimes meeting with the Circle Of Scavengers struggling under Brandonomics for barter and thrown out sealed food diving.
As the COV-LARP and the Final Lockdown goes live it may be time for the Waldganger Forest, at least you will be free there.
My 101st Airborne Ranger Pappy taught me evasion, recon, situational awareness, during a cross country road trip as a child.
Always enjoy your perspective on potential and real threats. DNA can easily be planted if it has been obtained. Since it is impossible to observe without technical equipment if it was important to claim a certain individual had been somewhere and done something nefarious it would be easy to claim to have discovered the evidence after taking a swab to determine what evidence needed to be found.
Governments always move toward totalitarianism and democracy is tyranny by consent, the majority (mob) demands it and those in authority grant the request.
Some of the founders of the country had the goal of liberty and freedom for the masses in mind when they designed the constitution, and it did provide that to a greater degree than has ever been achieved before, but it did not take long for it to degenerate into a statist existence for the people and an oligarchy of tyrants and bureaucracies that control the lives of those whom are ruled by it.
Chad