Godfrey Bloom MEP comments on the massive DNA database.UKIP Euro MP Godfrey Bloom has welcomed a landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on DNA databases.
The court upheld the case of two Sheffield residents who claimed to hold their DNA on a criminal database, despite neither having been convicted, contravened their human rights. With all 17 judges agreeing, the UK government might have to destroy part of its national DNA database and scale down future development.
Godfrey Bloom said: "This puts the Government in a quandary. They can of course ignore the judgement – but that would be unusual to say the least. They can scrub the million DNA profiles held on non-convicted British citizens - but that would go against their regular claims that the database is a good thing. Or and no doubt this is their preferred option they could demand that every single one of us be put on a national DNA database and therefore making everybody equally under suspicion."
The Yorkshire MEP added: "I think we can guess which would this interfering dictatorial government would prefer, and that is that we all hand over a blood sample for them to play with. This must not be allowed to happen. What they must do, and soon, is to scrub the million samples from their database.
"What they do not seem to realise is that they do not own us. They are our servants and they do not have to right to keep tabs on us at all times.
"This comes at a time when they are demanding that British citizens have to justify their existence to any police officer or functionary of the state and they are filling the streets with surveillance. But we are freeborn British men and women, and they must never be allowed to forget that."
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