The FBI wants palm prints, eye scans and tattoo mapping for everyone.
It’s okay, though. If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. This is to protect you from “terrorists and other criminals,” the story says.
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the death of the presumption of innocence! Hey, let’s map and sequence everyone’s genome at birth too. That’s a good idea. After all, it’s for our security. And of course, it won’t be terribly long before everyone who can remember it any other way will be dead.
My favorite detail in the story above is the FBI’s claim that they have been discarding fingerprints collected during background checks conducted for sensitive jobs. Anyone believe that?
What’s a guy to do but make a blog post and write a check to the ACLU once in a while? Feels about like charging into a California wildfire with a garden hose.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
It’s too far gone, isn’t it? Not nearly enough people give a shit, do they?
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“Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.”
I’m with you on this, my friend; it scares the EVER LOVING SHIT out of me.
Have I ever told you my warrentless wiretapping story? So, I’m teaching a Holocaust unit to high school freshmen, right? And they’re asking me how something this horrible can happen. Dubya’s little evesdropping scandal had just broken, so I thought that’d be a good way to introduce the idea of rights being eroded little by little. Two things horrified me: one, they had NO idea what the wiretapping story was about – they don’t listen to the news or (God/dess forbid), pick up a paper. Two, their response was something akin to “anyone can listen in to my phone calls – I have nothing to hide.”
Yeah? Go watch Enemy of the State and get back to me….
Gattaca!
Mrs. Chili, I did hear that story in some context or another, but that certainly doesn’t preclude your repeating it in relevant spots. Thank you for doing so.
‘seester: I loved that movie. Outstanding casting, acting, and production design. There’s an unfortunate blunder in the writing: at one point Ethan Hawke’s character claims his flawed heart is “10,000 beats” past its expected lifespan. Uh, 10,000 beats is about two hours and change’s worth, there, dude.