See if you can spot the civil-liberties victory:
- The Supreme Court says the government can put your DNA in a national database, even if you were wrongly arrested.
- The State of Mississippi imposes mandatory collection of the DNA of babies born to teenage moms, neither of which is suspected of a crime.
- The Department of Justice is tracking and threatening to prosecute reporters, for the crime of reporting.
- The National Security Agency is collecting everyone’s phone records, even if they suspect you of nothing.
- The U.S. Senate kills a bill that could lead to a registry of law-abiding gun owners.
Answer: #5.
Read the original post at http://www.cato.org/blog/brief-civil-liberties-scorecard
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