Big Brother: Friend or Foe?

[mamadrama]

Just on a practical note, the potential for abuse in DNA profiling, IMO is too great.

How do you keep the data secure? Obviously the data would be stored on a computer system, available to law enforcement personnel. If the DNA information is treated like all other personal information, a private company will get the contract to store the information and require passwords for law enforcement personal to access that information.

One has only to glance at the news, to know that there is not a database in the world that cannot have its data stolen.

Lynch, one of the leading proponents for a DNA database in SA cited in the article Erna posted says this:

Lynch is passionate about the use of DNA in investigating crime. She maintains that a database of DNA profiles would allow the police to identify suspects, link and work out the modus operandi of syndicates, and eventually streamline the handling of criminal cases.

Her research and recent visit to the national DNA database in Britain one of the biggest in the world - has convinced her that the development can lead only to increased success.

Remember the slew of data losses in the UK over the past couple of years?

Banks in Britain are required under the Data Protection Act to keep personal information secure. But banking and other sensitive information increasingly is being lost.

Last year, Nationwide Building Society was fined nearly £1 million ($2.6 million) after a laptop containing private customer data was stolen from an employee's home.

The breach comes after several high profile cases involving the loss of data by government agencies. Last week, a contractor lost a memory device containing information on prison inmates in England and Wales and in June, two sets of secret government files on terror tactics were left on commuter trains.

The most dramatic data loss occurred in November when tax officials admitted they had lost computer discs containing banking information on 25 million people - nearly half the country's population.

It's unlikely that DNA profiling is a crime deterrent. If capital punishment doesn't deter crime, it's not likely DNA profiling will either. It seems to be just one more step toward control which eventually infringes on all people's rights. Sure, let's start with the populations who have no voice, the criminals and the babies, but before long it will be used on everyone, osis.

Newborns Targeted for DNA Profiling

Could you make a genetically targeted weapon?

 

[go2]

Okay so let’s face it; the times they are a changin'. And let’s also face it; extreme circumstances requires extreme measures.

The logical conclusion of requiring extreme measures is bodies in the street. Psychopaths use the divide and conquer strategy to destroy the higher aspirations of mankind. Racism is one of these divisions, skillfully deployed by psychopaths to maintain control. The people of Palestine and South Africa are victims of this savage war against humanity. The world descends on a downward spiral of madness.

Erna, I hope South Africa can avoid the extremes of state control the following link pictures in Gaza.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/172252-The-Other-Side-of-the-Story-

 

[Laura]

The problem is that ANY system set up to "control others" can be and will be infiltrated by pathologicals including psychopaths. We must never forget their ability to present a perfect mask of sanity over long periods of time and only long and close association can expose many of them. That's why we are in the mess we are in now...

 

[sankara]

I have brievly mentionned the PTB long scale preparation to create a 'civil war like' situation in France. This in order to scare the population and bow them to consent. Most of the criminality is engineered by an accelerated ponerisation processus using political measures to destroy the daily life of the targeted population. The destruction of culture and education structure and the propagation of violent movies and porn in an elaborated way.
It is the same modus operandi everywhere to create scapegoat populations.

This is what the respected John Pilger said about what is going on in Palestine:

"This demolition of institutional and educational life in Gaza is designed to produce, wrote Karma Nabulsi, a Palestinian exile in Britain, "a Hobbesian vision of an anarchic society: truncated, violent, powerless, destroyed, cowed … Look to the Iraq of today: that is what [Sharon] had in store for us, and he has nearly achieved it."

 

[sankara]

This is just appropriate to our questionning isn't it?
http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2009m1d5-Americans-do-love-their-police-state

 

[BassMann22]

The problem is that ANY system set up to "control others" can be and will be infiltrated by pathologicals including psychopaths. We must never forget their ability to present a perfect mask of sanity over long periods of time and only long and close association can expose many of them. That's why we are in the mess we are in now...

Laura, how pointed and true are your words. How may I ask you are we to control and keep our own back yard in check from psychopaths?

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

Laura, how pointed and true are your words. How may I ask you are we to control and keep our own back yard in check from psychopaths?

Do you mean something different than just learning and networking to understand the nature of psychopaths and work to recognize pathological traits in yourself and in those around you? I don't think there's any kind of easy answer or "test", since anything could be faked so its a matter of conscious and prolonged observation combined with Work on yourself to make yourself into an increasingly better observer of objective reality.