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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules DNA Can be Taken upon Arrest
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luctor-et-emergo
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All you need to know.
Guilty until proven innocent.
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Terrible...interestingly Scalia wrote the dissent. He's been very good on civil liberties this term.
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Nobody's getting my DNA unless she can suck the chrome off a fender.
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Not in the least.
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Justice Antonin Scalia wrote an angry dissent for himself and three liberal justices, charging that the decision will lead to an increased use of DNA testing in violation of the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches.
"Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," Scalia warned. "This will solve some extra crimes, to be sure. But so would taking your DNA whenever you fly on an airplane."
Gee whiz Scalia. Thanks for writing the dissent, but don't give them any other ideas! Oh, and the fact that Scalia was joined by three liberal judges proves a couple of important points.
1) The left is full of it when it claims that Scalia and Thomas always vote together. (Yes I used to believe that crap until I actually stated reading Supreme Court decisions).
2) The right is full of it when it says "We must stand behind candidate X for president because we need more justices like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito".
And yes I included Scalia in the list in point 2 because some of his votes are just as bad as anyone else's. We won't win our freedoms back by losing sleep over which candidate will appoint who the Court. They all end up marching the statist ball down the field. So how do we win? Read on. More from the article.
Twenty-six states already collect DNA from those arrested for felonies or other serious crimes and upload it into a national database run by the federal government. The purpose: to find matches with unsolved crimes.
Tennessee is one of those 26 states. A couple of years ago they tried to pass a law where they could collect DNA for any arrest. We stopped them here in Tennessee. Matt Collins led the charge. I know there are plenty of Collins haters, and sometimes he gets on my nerves as well, but we have to give credit where credit is due so that the same tactics can be applied other places! Keep up with what's going on in your state. If/when the push forward to start or expand DNA testing, be alert and ready to harass the hell out of them.
"Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," Scalia warned. "This will solve some extra crimes, to be sure. But so would taking your DNA whenever you fly on an airplane."
Gee whiz Scalia. Thanks for writing the dissent, but don't give them any other ideas! Oh, and the fact that Scalia was joined by three liberal judges proves a couple of important points.
1) The left is full of it when it claims that Scalia and Thomas always vote together. (Yes I used to believe that crap until I actually stated reading Supreme Court decisions).
2) The right is full of it when it says "We must stand behind candidate X for president because we need more justices like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito".
And yes I included Scalia in the list in point 2 because some of his votes are just as bad as anyone else's. We won't win our freedoms back by losing sleep over which candidate will appoint who the Court. They all end up marching the statist ball down the field. So how do we win? Read on. More from the article.
Twenty-six states already collect DNA from those arrested for felonies or other serious crimes and upload it into a national database run by the federal government. The purpose: to find matches with unsolved crimes.
Tennessee is one of those 26 states. A couple of years ago they tried to pass a law where they could collect DNA for any arrest. We stopped them here in Tennessee. Matt Collins led the charge. I know there are plenty of Collins haters, and sometimes he gets on my nerves as well, but we have to give credit where credit is due so that the same tactics can be applied other places! Keep up with what's going on in your state. If/when the push forward to start or expand DNA testing, be alert and ready to harass the hell out of them.
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Supreme Court rules police can take DNA swabs
This is outrageous..
"Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said in a sharp dissent which he read aloud in the courtroom.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...olice-can-take-dna-swabs-from-those-arrested/
This is outrageous..
"Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said in a sharp dissent which he read aloud in the courtroom.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...olice-can-take-dna-swabs-from-those-arrested/
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They gotta go after those who birth at home somehow.
Edit: Also if they started using that data for law enforcement it would alert the public as to what was going on. It's like the fact that the NSA has been listening to Americans for years, but they keep bringing it more and more to the open and try to "legitimize" it ex post facto by passages of new expanded surveillance laws.
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Very true... I guess now they could use that stored birth DNA and claim it came from other "legal" sources. Freakin fascists...
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Well, it has the stamp of approval from our resident constitutional scholar, and the opposition doesn't consider it more than a "goddamn piece of paper".
Constitutions and Holy Scriptures both suffer from the same inherent problem: if you write enough pages of text, you can show that it says the exact opposite of what it actually says pretty clearly. All it takes is a pseudo-egghead and a mission.
Or, in this case, a majority of nine pseudo-eggheads.
I'd almost rather they take Bush's approach and just ignore it.
Dear Lord this system is broken.
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this ^^
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