NODE 4d0a9672Re: Forced DNA Collection
pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:26:25 +0800
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.