Re: [privacy] Colorado Sheriff Creates Roadblock to Collect DNA Samples for Private Firm

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 9/21/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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> Via PoliTech.
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> The Gilpin County Sheriff's Office in Colorado, a rural area not that far
> west of Denver, recently set up a highway checkpoint where motorists were
> stopped and, at least in some cases, not allowed to leave until they gave
> breath, blood, and saliva samples for the benefit of a private research
> firm. A report by Ernie Hancock says the National Highway Traffic Safety
> Administration was involved as well.

If people gave in, they're sheep - and don't deserve the liberty they gave up.
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