DNA tests sought for every Briton

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Let's hope that this doesn't give Ashcroft any ideas.


"Every single person in the UK should be compelled to have their DNA on the national database in an effort to prevent crime, a senior police officer has argued.
Currently about two million people who have been charged with criminal offences have their DNA profiles on the national database.
But Kevin Morris, chairman of the Police Superintendents Association, told the Times newspaper opposition to extending the scheme to every man, woman and child was overstated.
The association will call this week for the extension as a tool to revolutionise the fight against crime and solve hundreds of murders.
Civil liberties campaigners have always opposed the suggestion, arguing it is intrusive to make such demands of people who have done nothing wrong.

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[Brian Sweat]

1. Somewhere, John Ashcroft is reading this and sporting a serious woody.

[TheBlob]

2. I believe in my lifetime

(I'm 35) DNA samples taken from newborns in the hospital will be as commonplace as the practice of taking footprints.