Comments on: Supreme Court agrees to review Maryland DNA ruling http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/09/supreme-court-agrees-to-review-maryland-dna-ruling/ Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Tue, 14 May 2013 10:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cindy Walsh http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/09/supreme-court-agrees-to-review-maryland-dna-ruling/comment-page-1/#comment-58420 Cindy Walsh Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:54:45 +0000 http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=227728#comment-58420 We want to emphasize that what Maryland Attorney General Gansler is trying to do is to bank DNA on people only suspected of, not only convicted of a crime. That is what makes this so unconstitutional and really questions how Gansler was elected as a Democrat. We are in a hyper-securitized society for the time being; a result of the hold that global/defense hawk pols have on our government at the Federal and State level. Gansler's stance shows that Maryland leads in this hawkish stance that suspends civil liberties for all. One can imagine a scenario of police wanting to see a person who is innocent become a member of this DNA database and simply having to arrest that person under suspicion only to have that person released. Unfortunately this isn't far-fetched, it is already happening. So citizens in Maryland will cross our collective fingers that higher courts will offer a reasoned ruling and we will need to start work on replacing incumbents in Maryland who did not shout out against this action. We want to emphasize that what Maryland Attorney General Gansler is trying to do is to bank DNA on people only suspected of, not only convicted of a crime. That is what makes this so unconstitutional and really questions how Gansler was elected as a Democrat. We are in a hyper-securitized society for the time being; a result of the hold that global/defense hawk pols have on our government at the Federal and State level. Gansler’s stance shows that Maryland leads in this hawkish stance that suspends civil liberties for all.

One can imagine a scenario of police wanting to see a person who is innocent become a member of this DNA database and simply having to arrest that person under suspicion only to have that person released. Unfortunately this isn’t far-fetched, it is already happening. So citizens in Maryland will cross our collective fingers that higher courts will offer a reasoned ruling and we will need to start work on replacing incumbents in Maryland who did not shout out against this action.

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