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Whenever I rob a convenience store I try not to make any credit card purchases there first...or call home and check my answering machine on their phone.
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Obviously, but if you are worried about being tracked then commiting an armed robbery isn't the greatest way to fly under the radar.
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Why is that absurd? The state of PA has a huge, make that humongous, fingerprint file, they can search completely, for a match, in 8 minutes.....remotely..... from every county.
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Which they should. If they have your fingerprints in connection with something they should have the ability to asertain who's they are and find you with a minimum of hassle.
I make no pronouncements as to the sorry state of all aspects of the judicial system, my original point was in fact that I want to remove as much chance from the equation as possible. DNA evidence is just like a fingerprint, only better in some ways since it offers information on what the person was doing at the time (difference between a hair, skin scrapings, and semen say more than just 'he was here'). If you're worried about someone being convicted based on just DNA evidence then you should also be biting your nails over the fingerprint database, even
I could break a case that offers nothing except 'we know this person passed through the crime scene at some point in the last month'.
The times are a chang'in, yep, I don't think that we need to protect the annonymity of criminals under the premise of protecting some bizzare idea that privacy and freedom mean being able to break the law and get away with it 80% of the time. Armed rebellion? Give me a break, you would really deny evidence that can convict criminals over the idea that we should be ready to forcefully overthrow our government at any time? I suppose efforts to curtail people making homemade bombs get you up in arms as well.
This is not a
false promise of security any more than cancer research is a false promise of hope to cancer patients.