Wow that's some scary shit.
Fucking brits telling us how much freedom they have! There is a good example of how controlled they are. They talk a good game but look at what is happening to them and not ONE story on the news I ever saw about it. They SOLD the database to a private company too! That is so wrong.
Like Uber said I think the opposition to this would be huge in the US. The "samples" will most likely be taken without our knowledge. Donate blood, they test it for AIDS. I am sure there is monetary motivation to freeze the "leftover" blood and sell the sample to someone cataloging that stuff.
Oh but it isn't an invasion of privacy to keep the blood without reading the DNA right? Bullshit, it is about intent. Why keep it on the shelf if you are never going to use it. Why did Clinton put up $40 million to Speed up the data collection? So it could be done before any one found out!
Ok they claim that race is not an issue. They say that one person's DNA is so similar to another that there is no scientific classification for race. Fucking lies! They are only saying that to calm the masses. They said "less than one tenth of a percent different" sounds like they have a point! Right? 99.9% the same is pretty much the same right? Here are two snippets from those articles.....
Scientists at for-profit company Celera Genomics and taxpayer-funded Human Genome Project claimed race is not part of science because their research, which was published in the most recent issues of scientific journals Science and Nature, showed that only one-hundredth of 1 percent of each human's genetic makeup is different.
"Any two humans on this planet are more than 99.9 percent identical at the molecular level. Racial and ethnic differences are all indeed only skin deep," said Eric Lander, director of the human genome sequencing lab at the Whitehead Institute, one of the major labs that contributed to the international Human Genome Project.
That could be good news, and perhaps a score against those who would use biological differences to promote racism.
And Then read this!!
"If you're a pufferfish you're doing pretty well," he said.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is the chimp. Since it's 99.9 percent genetically similar to humans, the small amount of DNA that differs between the two species promises to reveal important secrets about human evolution.
"The difference remaining between the chimp and the human are where those questions can be answered," Baylor College's Worley said.
Gee I guess 0.1% makes a BIG FUCKING DEAL!
Unless you think chimps are no different than humans. They are spewing out crap to support their cause. Saying that there is no scientific difference between races is a bold faced lie. If they are lying so blatantly about that do you trust those same well meaning lab nerds to not collect your DNA "for your own good". I certainly can't.
It is also interesting to note that the genetic code for specific genetic diseases varies between races. One of the articles stated that Cystic Fibrosis wasn't the same code between races.
OK why is a DNA database a bad thing? Here is a scenario that could take place with the samples they already have. A suspected terrorist group is being investigated. An agent procures a hair sample from crime scene search. The hair is mapped and in the interest of national security all of the males of Germanic decent with blue eyes dark brown hair between 5'6 and 5'7 in new your state are required to submit blood and hair samples. In the mean time why not detain this "small group for "public safety". A drop of blood from another member of the gang produces another sweep of Jews of east German decent etc.... Don't try to tell me the FBI / ATF or any other government agency is above that. Cataloged from birth and put into neat little groups. People will be convicted of crimes on DNA evidence alone.
Sorry sir you can't buy a gun because your drivers license says you are genetically disposed to be violent. Etc...
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Woof.
If it's so sick, why are you laughing?
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