Military personnel can request that their DNA samples be destroyed once service is completed, but here again, the individual has no way of knowing if it actually was and this request, just as with newborn DNA requests for destroying the samples, does not destroy the information gathered and stored. It simply destroys the original blood and tissue samples….so they say.
Merging DNA Databases
In addition to the newborn DNA databanks, the FBI databanks and the Military databanks is the Criminal databank. CODIS is a national DNA databank of convicted felons, including sex offenders. We can all see the potential for the benefits of positive identification of predators, murderers, rapists etc., but here again something that should have been a very beneficial tool has been taken over by far more evil agendas.
The Military DNA database is now merged with CODIS……that’s even if you have requested your samples be destroyed after ending your service……(this should highlight my earlier statement that the information is stored whether the samples are destroyed or not.) CODIS, is then merged with INTERPOL. This is the transnational criminal DNA databank and now your information has gone global. Any government or any of its agents participating in INTERPOL is authorized to rummage through your DNA and related compiled personal files for no other reason than because it wanted to. And, they may also use the genetic information loaded in INTERPOL to construct even more invasive testing and genetic modification programs.
Copyright your DNA
With states now claiming ownership of DNA of newborns, the military now claiming they own that database and the international efforts to catalogue every person possible, we aren’t far from the claiming of ownership of every individual. To claim that you now own DNA of anyone other than yourself is to imply that the ownership entitles you to use as you see fit, that which you own. It could be why human beings are now referred to as, “human capital” in such odious things as the Security & Prosperity Partnership”. Maybe the intent all along has been to devise a means by which we become a commodity to be traded and sold on the global markets.
Our DNA is the most singular identifier we have. We are so unique that unless we are identical multiples, no one has the exact same DNA we have. Even in the case of identical multiples, there are minute differences that can be detected. Because this identifier is so unique to us, no one other than ourselves should have unfettered access to it, or to claim that they now own it nor should it ever be made into a salable commodity and treated as a tradable good that can be sold for profit.
Surveillance of large sectors of populations anywhere is now facilitated by facial imprinting, iris scans, face recognition, biometrics of all kinds, ID cards, the signal from your cell phone, the GPS on your car and video camera’s that are stashed everywhere. The push to get us all to use cash debit cards rather than cash itself, is nothing more than an attempt to time/date stamp us to track and identify us, where we were and what we were doing. Add genetic tracking and you have effectively devised the means by which the government decides who gets to benefit in many areas, and who will be culled out.
Who is it that these governments are so afraid of that all of this effort is put into watching us, tracking us, spying on us, and now cataloguing us like cattle? I can only conclude that it is the general population that scares the government the most. I believe that most of us have dispensed with the “terrorist” threat and most people are aware that when the term “national security” is used, it has less to do with making sure the country is safe and most likely is just another assault on our lives and liberty.
The noose is tightening.
© Marti Oakley
2008
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