Thursday, May 21, 2009
Kotz / Legislature / Politics Civil Liberties Invasion: Fingerprinting You for a Speeding Ticket?
Posted by Pete Kotz on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:38 AM
Well, not quite. Maybe I'm just getting weird here, but there's something wrong with a law that presumes everyone's a potential felon. It's one thing to force fingerprints when you're nicked for a legitimate crime, like knocking over a liquor store. But it's entirely another matter when granny gets hit for driving 34 through a school zone. Perhaps 90 percent of the population will never commit a significant crime, which speaks to a great deal of wasted effort. And if you're Mr. and Mrs. Law Abiding, haven't you earned the right to live free of these hassles?
What's especially curious is that the bill overwhelmingly passed the Tennessee House. These are the guys so paranoid about big government that they're already preparing for martial law. My question: When the New World Order comes, and they already have our fingerprints, won't it be that much harder to run a respectable guerrilla war?
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Just think of the possibilities open to law enforcement with the new fingerprint law. Just so every little means of regulation is utilized, fingerprinting needs to be applied to beer purchase regulations as well. I mean, fingerprints on file for every Tennessee beer guzzelling citizen would really uplift enforcement possibilities here in our philosophical volunteer Garden of Eden. Lovely. Makes me proud to be a Tennessean.
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Last year, the police were sweeping through Richland Park each morning around 6 - 7 a.m. Anyone they found sitting in the park (generally the homeless) was ordered to give their fingerprints.
Isn't future technology about using the unique pattern of your iris or thumbprint for ID instead of a passport or driver's license?
