The FBI wants my body

Holy shit Batman, the FBI wants my DNA, fingerprints, palm prints, ear prints, eye scan, tattoo map and for all I know my butt print. Of all of these I am willing to give them one, if they’ll kiss it that is.

I have never been arrested and, while I may have a file deep in the bowels of some Federal building basement for a few things I may have said in my youth, I have done nothing that would warrant having all of that information about me in some huge database. So, why should I have to submit to all of this?

The FBI says they want the information to better fight terrorism. I am sure there are millions of people in this country who are willing to give up another chunk of privacy just to feel safe. They are the ones who support warantless wire tapping and the ceding of other civil liberties all to feel safe.

Safe from what?

Terrorists?

Illegal immigrants?

The boogie man?

All of the above?

Why do we have to resort to this type of invasion of privacy and abridgment of civil liberties? How is this information going to make it easier to catch the bad guys? You won’t be able to collect the data until you’ve caught them doing something wrong. You don’t think they are going to voluntarily stand in line to have their data taken do you?

So, you say, let’s get the information when they enter the country. Yep, every terrorist or illegal immigrant will enter the country through a formal port of entry. Or, are we going to set up monitoring stations every mile or so along the entire border, land and sea, and get the data from everyone trying to sneak in.

No, the only people who are going to be in the data base are criminals already in the system and law abiding people who will march like sheep to be measured, inked and generally abused. Just another civil liberty down the toilet.