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TSA wants your DNA

Written By : Chris Wysocki

I’ll bet you thought the TSA’s “enhanced” patdown procedures could not possibly get more invasive. Think again. Beginning this summer TSA will start collecting travelers’ DNA.

According to a report from The Daily the Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy portable DNA scanners at U.S. points of entry. They’re about the size of a desktop printer and can produce lab-quality DNA screenings in about an hour. So in addition to the full-body scanners and enhanced patdowns we’ll have to stand obediently still while a TSA rent-a-cop swabs the inside of our mouth.

Or, no plane flight for you!

Why does the Obama Administration need our DNA? I don’t know. But they sure seem determined to build themselves one heck of a database with all this info they’re capturing. Photo ID. Date of birth. Gender. X-rays. DNA. All that’s missing is a urine sample.

Customs and Border Protection, another tentacle of the Department of Homeland Security, has the authority to download the contents of your laptop and mobile phone. And into the database it goes!

Has anybody seen the Fourth Amendment recently? I think it’s gone missing again. And, why do I have the feeling that if it was George Bush doing this it’d be a much bigger deal?

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Cross-posted from WyBlog.us. Follow me on Twitter @WyBlog.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dell-Hill/1360026881 Dell Hill

Next thing you know they’ll be wanting our birth certificate! Oh….wait…
Anonymous

Gattaca! Gattaca! Gattaca!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

Orwell never thought of that one.
Anonymous

“No plane flight for you.” Typical victim mentality. I do not want to work hard and save enough money to have my own private aircraft. So I want to blame someone else for my inconvenience when I have to resort to taking commercial airline flights out of public airports and be subjected to their security standards.

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

So, you’re OK with the government collecting the DNA of all travelers, am I reading that right? I just want to be clear where you stand here.

Anonymous

If that is the condition required to fly out of a public airport so be it. The more information stored in a data base which can be used to screen out possible terrorists who might seek to do me and my family harm on a commercial flight, the better as far as I’m concerned.

http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

“If that is the condition required to fly out of a public airport so be it.”

Good to know you’ll be okay with President Palin (or whoever takes over from Obama) knowing every move you make and having every scrap of information about your personal life she wants, whenever she wants it. You’d have done well in the old Soviet Union, comrade.

Anonymous

First of all, knowing the tasks facing Presidents I doubt that President Palin (or whoever comes after President Obama) would ever be involved in any nationl issue relating specifially to my DNA. As JFK said, “All matters coming before the President are serious in nature. If not, they will be settled at a lower level.”

Second, it would not bother me in the least if President Palin (or any other President) took an interest in my DNA although I might begin to wonder if he or she were not plauged by some kinky but harmless sexual perversion.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Then you deserve everything that happens to you if this comes into play.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

Then you deserve everything that happens to you if this comes into play.
Anonymous

First of all, knowing the tasks facing Presidents I doubt that President Palin (or whoever comes after President Obama) would ever be involved in any nationl issue relating specifially to my DNA. As JFK said, “All matters coming before the President are serious in nature. If not, they will be settled at a lower level.”

Second, it would not bother me in the least if President Palin (or any other President) took an interest in my DNA although I might begin to wonder if he or she were not plauged by some kinky but harmless sexual perversion.
Anonymous

“Okay with President Palin”
Actually I would be. I believe her to be a better person than the often times bittter person that she now chooses to manifest herself as. I don’t think she was prepared for the down right nastyness that has come to earmark our Presidential election process. It hurt her to the quick and turned her into a ‘bite before you are bitten” person. She can overcome that if she were to return to her natural instincts of wanting to help which, I believe, winning the Presidency would likely force her to do.

I may not vote for her if she were the candidate, but if elected, she WOULD BE MY President and I would never wish her to fail as such.
http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

I would not want any President, regardless of party or faction, to have total access to my DNA, nor to use its collection as a condition of my engaging in a private transaction of any kind.
http://twitter.com/glittzchick glam gurl

All-right…betcha got paid extra for that post. Ridicule a group of people? Check. Palin insults? Check. Palin sexuality slur? Check. Came off like a narcisissitic jerk? Check.

Dude. If they don’t raise your pay to at least $1 a post, they’re making a big mistake.

Ooops, never mind. You forgot the racist and the nazi accusations.

Anonymous

Pause for a second and pretend this is going on under Bush.

There, now scream “nazis” until you turn blue in the face.

Anonymous

Right Buckwheat. Why do I have to be subjected to a background check if I apply to work in a child daycare center when I know I’m clean as a whistle ? Why does a bank run a credit check on me if I apply for a job when I know my credit score is 800+? Because Buckwheat, strangers who put their trust in me to not put their customers at risk don’t know squat about me until they have an opportunity to check me out. Checking me out takes the existance of some sort of data base (whether in a computer or the mind of a personal reference) Buckwheat.
Anonymous

Plenty of DNA in saliva.

I wouldn’t mind spitting in a few unionized TSA goons’ faces.
Martin Hale

I’ll believe this is true when I hear that the ACLU has gone into meltdown over it and is trying to go directly to the Supreme Court. Until then, I don’t think this is real.

Most estimates are that between a million and two million people fly every day in the US alone. That means 1 to 2 million man-hours of testing every day in addition to the x-ray scanning, pat-downs, regular screening and all their other activities. There’s no way TSA can test that many people – it’s just not feasible. The TSA would have to hire a huge (and I mean huge) number of people and certify them on DNA testing and then keep DNA scanners stocked and operating in hundreds of locations.

Colour me highly, very, and outstandingly sceptical.
http://twitter.com/TSABlogTeam TSA Blog Team

TSA is not testing and has no plans to use any technology capable of testing DNA. http://ow.ly/44o9r

Thanks,

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog Team

http://wyblog.us/blog Chris Wysocki

Hey Blogger Bob, Can I print this out and take it with me to the airport? Because I remember you guys saying the porno scanners would be “voluntary” and that turned out to be just a tad disingenuous. Sure, we can “opt out”, but then it’s the TSA UFIA!

http://twitter.com/TSABlogTeam TSA Blog Team

FYA – TSA is not testing and has no plans to use any technology capable of testing DNA. http://ow.ly/44o9r

Thanks,

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog Team
http://twitter.com/glittzchick glam gurl

Enough. More than enough. It’s past time. Impeach. Now.

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