no right to DNA privacy

DNA sample required by police at checkpoint

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SmarterthanYou

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Imagine driving down the highway and pulling in to a long line of cars at a police stop and ID checkpoint. The officers tell you that they are doing a monthly criminal spot check and you will be required to submit a DNA sample for analysis to verify that you are currently not a wanted fugitive from justice. You have no right to refuse and if you resist, the police officers will use force to obtain their sample.

would you object/resist? or comply?
 
Someone will be along shortly to trot out the terribly hackneyed phrase "nothing to hide nothing to fear" and point out that if it reduces crime then it is to be welcomed rather than feared.

This is the mark of the fool.

As flawed as it is, i'll keep my own DNA thanks very much.
 
I don't believe in random DNA testing but things like CODIS where if a person is proven guilty their fingerprints and DNA are in the system....I don't mind that at all. By the way, I would resist.
 
At this point in my life I would comply. I would reach down into my pants and come out with a nice curly pubic hair and give it to them.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
Imagine driving down the highway and pulling in to a long line of cars at a police stop and ID checkpoint. The officers tell you that they are doing a monthly criminal spot check and you will be required to submit a DNA sample for analysis to verify that you are currently not a wanted fugitive from justice. You have no right to refuse and if you resist, the police officers will use force to obtain their sample.

would you object/resist? or comply?
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It's an absurd example. If that happened, they wouldn't "use force to make you comply", they would haul you off to jail and you could fight a legal battle.
 
Watermarx said:
It's an absurd example. If that happened, they wouldn't "use force to make you comply", they would haul you off to jail and you could fight a legal battle.
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If a legislature authorizes law enforcement to retrieve blood, do you think you'll be allowed to refuse? wake the fark up. Police have already used force and been completely exonerated by the courts in doing so.

now answer the question. would you refuse or comply?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
If a legislature authorizes law enforcement to retrieve blood, do you think you'll be allowed to refuse? wake the fark up. Police have already used force and been completely exonerated by the courts in doing so.

now answer the question. would you refuse or comply?
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I'm not answering a stupid question.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
Imagine driving down the highway and pulling in to a long line of cars at a police stop and ID checkpoint. The officers tell you that they are doing a monthly criminal spot check and you will be required to submit a DNA sample for analysis to verify that you are currently not a wanted fugitive from justice. You have no right to refuse and if you resist, the police officers will use force to obtain their sample.

would you object/resist? or comply?
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Well it depends on the circumstances. If it's Barney Fife who's politely asking me to provide a sample I'll tell him to jump in a lake. If it's 4 beefy storm troopers with bad attitudes and PR-24's drawn I'll give them the sample voluntarily instead of allowing them to extract the sample in, shall we say, methods not approved by ASTM.
 
Anyone that has been arrested or gets any kind of financial assistance from the government should all be required to give up a sample.
 
webbway said:
Anyone that has been arrested or gets any kind of financial assistance from the government should all be required to give up a sample.
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why?

and that doesn't answer the question. This is during a highway traffic stop checkpoint where the police are doing a monthly fugitive check.
 
Now, lets change the scenario.

If you were stopped at a DUI checkpoint and police demanded a blood sample for alcohol levels, would you refuse?
 
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