"DNA and Drug Testing"

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Why would a small community in South Mississippi which voted overwhelmingly for bush and which has about as many baptist churchs as residents need DNA and Drug Testing services? Could it be that the children of the blessed and the saved have premarital or extramarital sex and there is a great "value" placed on knowing who you are related to? Or could it be possible that a red state morals community has a drug problem amongst its citizens? Maybe some fine lurker from the values oriented freeper network could explain this conundrum to me. I'm sure there must be some mistake.

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1. Liberal and Blue Massachussetts has the nations......

highest rate of marriage and lowest rates of divorce and abortion!

[BOSSHOG]

2. Residents of red states

bitch the loudest about tax and spend liberals while, on average, they receive far more federal tax dollars in return then they provide. Praise the Lord!

[EC]

3. I saw somewhere back in Nov. or so

that DNA samples were going to be part of your physical when you get a job now...I did write a letter to the News about it, it was in the Patriot Act II AKA the Victory Act...Here's a copy of the letter I had published in the Racine Journal here in WI:

The Victory Act, AKA, Patriot Act II, is now being pushed before the November election by the GOP.

With this Act not only will you have to have a drug test to get a job, you’ll also be fingerprinted and giving over a DNA sample so our U.S. Attorney Generals office can maintain a data base of our citizens.

On Dec. 3rd, 2003, a Saturday, the same day Saddam was caught, Mr. Bush stealthily signed part of this bill into law, already granting the FBI the right to probe our financial records, even if not suspected in any involvement in terror or crime. ( banks, stockbrokers, car dealers, casinos, credit card companies, insurance agents, jewelers, airlines and the post office). Also included are threshold rights -- fair elections, a free press, open and publicly accountable government, judicial review of executive action, the right of the accused to a public jury trial, separation of powers among the three branches of government, and the rights to free expression and free association, which can be repelled in this act. Threshold rights enable us to know what government is doing. This was personally shepherded through Congress by Attorney General John Ashcroft, it authorizes things that send shivers down spines: invasions of personal privacy, restrictions on financial transactions, racial and ethnic profiling. One in widespread use now, specifically is the writ of habeas corpus. The writ of habeas corpus compels the executive branch to produce a prisoner and disclose the legal basis for detention, so the court may decide whether that detention is constitutional.

Once threshold rights are stripped away, the only thing that stands between any of us and arbitrary imprisonment is the good will of the president, the attorney general, and the secretary of defense.

I am hopeful there are more in Congress of the same cloth as Senator Russ Feingold, (only one to vote no to first Patriot Act) who is true to our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I for one will be voting the GOP out, one by one and voting in more like Russ Feingold.

For the Voice of the People