What’s with the DNA Swabbings at Occupy LA?

By on November 30th, 2011

Dear read­ers, I have a ques­tion for you. What the fuck is going on? Have we finally hit that crit­i­cal point? Are those death camps that FEMA sup­pos­edly has being warmed up right now in antic­i­pa­tion of pro­test­ers? Per­son­ally I don’t know and that’s all spec­u­la­tion but shit is going DOWN right now, as I write this, at Occupy LA. As of right now, appar­ently local news sta­tions have stopped report­ing on the situation:

All local news net­works stop cov­er­age of #occu­pyLA at the same to show informer­cials for wrin­kle cream #col­lu­sion@MYFOXLA

All of the news chan­nels stopped their cov­er­age on #Occu­pyLA wtf am I gonna watch now –__–

Uh, oh. Watch out #Occu­pyLA folks! Last of local TV cvrge just signed off. Unpaid cit­i­zen journos still streaming:

Any­way, there are sev­eral reports from twit­ter & the live stream that said that cops in bio­haz­ard gear have started swab­bing protesters…what the fuck for? And is what they’re doing ille­gal?

Begin­ning on Jan­u­ary 1, 2009, all adults arrested for any felony offense must pro­vide a buc­cal swab (inner cheek scrap­ing) DNA sam­ple, and thumb and palm print impres­sions for the State of California’s DNA (CAL-DNA) Data Bank Pro­gram (Penal Code sec­tion 296(a)(2)©). This expands 2008 CAL-DNA Data Bank law pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing col­lec­tion of DNA sam­ples from arrestees. The 2008 law requires adults arrested for a felony Penal Code sec­tion 290 reg­is­ter­able sex offense, mur­der, or vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter (includ­ing attempts of these crimes) to pro­vide sam­ples for the CAL-DNA Data Bank (Penal Code sec­tion 296(a)(2)(A) and (B)).
The fol­low­ing sets forth infor­ma­tion per­ti­nent to the Jan­u­ary 1, 2009, expan­sion of CAL-DNA Data Bank Pro­gram pro­vid­ing for DNA iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sam­ple col­lec­tion from all adult felony arrestees:

This is a gross vio­la­tion of rights. We will not be silenced nor will our movement(s) be squelched. You gave us our petty illu­sions that we are a free and demo­c­ra­tic coun­try and now you have to deal with us real­iz­ing these values.

I’ll update this as I find any­thing out, if at all.

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3 Responses to “What’s with the DNA Swabbings at Occupy LA?”

  1. Patricia Scott says:
    December 1, 2011 at 2:12 am

    See this, from 06 Aug 2011:
    “Appel­late Court Strikes Down DNA Test­ing for Arrestees”

    http://davisvanguard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4594:appellate-court-strikes-down-dna-testing-for-arrestees&catid=74:judicial-watch&Itemid=100

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  2. Linda Snodgrass says:
    December 3, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    A cou­ple of tweets do not con­sti­tute proof.
    I ques­tion these accu­sa­tions and feel it’s anti-government forces pos­ing as left­ies in order to get every­one else to hate the gov­ern­ment and not vote, result­ing in a repub­li­can pres­i­dent. Peo­ple shouldn’t fall for this stuff with­out evidence.

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    • Nihilizo says:
      December 4, 2011 at 12:04 am

      lol, “anti-government forces pos­ing as left­ies”? What the hell does that even mean? What sort of forces are you talk­ing about? Big bad anar­chists or something?

      I really think that the gov­ern­ment is doing quite a great job on its own of mak­ing peo­ple hate the gov­ern­ment and not want to vote. Vot­ing doesn’t accom­plish crap and every gov­ern­ment in this world is detestable.

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