Re: Personal patches
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On 0, "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> wrote:
:Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net> writes:
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:> On 0, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:
:>:
:>: Prepare to be fingerprinted.
:
:> Few U.S. citizens haven't been.=20
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:Now they can prepare to be DNA databased, as U.K. citizens have.
:Orwell was an optimist.
:
:I heard a new twist on it last week. Cops want a guy's DNA and don't
:want to bother a judge to use his search warrant rubber stamp. So
:they send the guy a letter which causes the guy to send a return
:letter. (I forget the ruse -- a prize announcement or something. The
:report didn't say whether it had a Police letterhead or was something
:more covert.) So he licks the envelope and/or stamp, drops it in the
:mail, and now his DNA is in the database. (Yes, it matched.)
Orwellian, yes. But funny.
--=20
Allan Bowhill
abowhill@blarg.net
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be
doing.
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