Tuesday, January 11, 2005

In the "Are you fucking nuts?" category...

It's our whole culture. If you have nothing to hide, then you'll submit to any indignity or loss of privacy or liberty.

TRURO, Mass., Jan. 7 - In an unusual last-ditch move to find clues to the three-year-old killing of a freelance fashion writer, police investigators are trying to get DNA samples from every man in this Cape Cod hamlet, all 790 or so, or as many as will agree.

[...]

Sgt. David Perry of the Truro Police Department and other law enforcement authorities here say that the program is voluntary but that they will pay close attention to those who refuse to provide DNA.

"We're trying to find that person who has something to hide," Sergeant Perry said.

NY Times article

And teach them early.

LA MARQUE, Texas - Ten students between the ages of 11 and 12 were strip-searched as officials at their charter school tried to find a missing $10 bill.

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"Nobody objected to it. Most of the kids didn't mind because they wanted to get their name cleared," [Principal Wilma Green] said.

Yahoo News article

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