Your Cousin’s Fraudulent DNA Test May Be Your Downfall

I always say the end of free will is near. The government and the tech industry are destroying privacy, and privacy is essential to the exercise of free will. If someone is always looking over your shoulder, and you know it, there will be many things you simply can’t do.

God created the world to be a place where people could get away with evil, at least in the short run, because freedom to do evil is essential to free will. Man is making it harder and harder for us to do evil and for us to do things that are not evil yet for which we would be punished anyway.

Here’s a great example of the things mankind is doing to destroy free will. DNA-testing companies are giving customers’ information to the cops, so if your dad took a test for fun, and you’re a burglar who left a cigarette butt at a crime scene, the law may get your dad’s information and use it to locate you.

It sounds like I’m standing up for burglary, but I chose that example out of a hat. The DNA trap could get you if you do something good, which the government doesn’t want you to do.

The fundamental premise of leftism is a perverted reflection of the fundamental premise of Christianity. We believe everything God does is good. They believe everything the government does is good. I exaggerate; they’re against certain governmental actions. But they trust the government to take care of us, and they think privacy is outmoded. They think we should all belong to a communal organism and share information with each other like cells in a body. They say things like, “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t mind.”

That’s the sort of thing the Nazis used to say when they searched homes. The fact that you can’t make them understand the fascist nature of their stance shows how deluded they are and how little they know about history.

Leftists don’t like privacy, and leftists are more powerful than the rest of us, so privacy is going to vanish whether we like it or not.

The amazing thing about the DNA story is that you don’t have to be involved in order to get nailed. Related people share lots of DNA. The government doesn’t need your DNA to find you. They just need a relative’s DNA. When they find the relative, they look at his family, and you’re done.

It’s a lot like Google Contacts. Even if you don’t give them your phone number, someone else will. They’ll put your name in their list. Then Google has it, even if your number is unlisted.

My dad has a Facebook account. I looked at it, and Facebook was suggesting he “friend” a tenant. Why did Facebook think he wanted to do that? I figured it out. Facebook has his email address. It has her email address. It knows they have corresponded. It thinks they might be friends. Maybe the cops will call my dad if she knocks over a liquor store.

It’s a wonder any crime goes unsolved these days, with all the information the cops can access. They can get the DNA stuff. They can get cell records to tell them where you’ve been. There are toll records that keep track of your car’s location. There are mysterious, unlabeled sensors beside our major highways. There are cameras on many traffic lights. Lots of private businesses have cameras that face out. I’m not sure why cops ever leave the office.

I believe the feds are letting criminals go in order to conceal their data-mining power. I believe the feds and possibly state cops locate many criminals very quickly, using illegally obtained data, and then they refrain from apprehending them until they can concoct alternate explanations for their successful manhunts.

Often they’re open about using new data sources to capture people, but I’m sure there are many cases in which they kept things under wraps because their methods were too outrageous for public consumption. There are probably many cases in which they chose not to pursue criminals because there was no plausible way to explain how they were caught.

It’s human nature. Human nature is like gravity. You can’t fight it. It always prevails in the end. Hospital employees stole George Clooney’s medical records for fun. Someone leaked part of Donald Trump’s tax return. Put people in charge of sensitive information, and some of them will abuse the power.

A sad sidelight on the story: DNA tests are garbage. You send them your dried spit, and they tell you you’re half Italian and half Polish. Then you send the same spit to another company, and suddenly you’re Irish. The tests give the same DNA different results, so when your little cousin does one as part of a history project, she does nothing of value for herself, and she puts the rest of the family in a giant database the government doesn’t have to pay to build or maintain.

The tests are worthless for telling you where your ancestors came from, but they’re great for telling the cops who your relatives are.

A friend of mine was arrested because he drove a car with no registration. It was dark. Traffic was light. He wasn’t doing anything to attract attention. A cop caught him anyway. Why? The cop had a scanner that looked for tags the system had flagged. Think you’re safe because the little decal in the corner of your tag is too small for cops to pay attention to? Think again. Machinery is doing their work for them.

My friend wanted to move the car 20 miles so he could work on it at home and get it licensed. He couldn’t afford a tow truck. He only intended to drive the car illegally once, when traffic was light. He ended up with big legal troubles. He didn’t know he was under surveillance every time he got on the road.

I wonder where I’d be if the government had caught me every time I did something illegal. I’d be in solitary for the rest of my life as a repeat offender. Speeding: 20000 offenses. Parking illegally: 1000 offenses. Blowing up a dead chicken in a public place as a prank: 1 offense. Various littering charges. Putting questionable materials in dumpsters. Crimes involving fireworks. Picking my feet in Poughkeepsie. I’d never see the light of day again.

In the future, everyone will have to be perfect, all the time. That will be interesting.

There’s nothing we can do about it, but I suppose it’s good to be informed.