Bush Signs Bill to Take All Newborns' DNA

Steve Watson / Infowars.net:
President Bush signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database. Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health emergency."

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Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. / Cato Institute
The most pressing threat to liberty is a government-mandated database containing all of us, corresponding to a National ID with biometric identifiers. This is the Big Brother scenario that would lead to the asking for ID everywhere, and devolve into a general law enforcement tool having nothing to do with the terrorism that prompted recent calls for National IDs. National IDs threaten liberty and anonymity, and, ironically, they undermine security itself by moving the locus of technological advancement in authentication technologies out of the private sector and into government.

Posted by Editor at May 8, 2008 04:15 AM