From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:26:25 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Forced DNA Collection
Message-ID: <91372205409340@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net> writes:
 
>Top Story on AP...
>
>NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite objections from civil libertarians, the city's
>police  commissioner proposed Monday to take a DNA sample along with the
>fingerprints  of everyone arrested.
> 
>Commissioner Howard Safir said the test would solve crimes and help curb 
>repeat offenders. ``The innocents have nothing to fear ... only if you are 
>guilty should you worry about DNA testing,'' he said.
 
The Commissioner messed up the quote, it's actually:
 
  "I am returning to punish the guilty; the innocent have nothing to fear"
   - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 90BC, just before he massacred the innocent en 
     masse.
 
Peter.