PERSONHOOD 2.0
What this horrible, terrible, no good, very bad ruling circumscribing the very notion of the concept of the individual boils down to is this: Human beings (and that proprietary data which makes you you) are not just subject to the laws of the state, they are commodities owned by the state and ipso facto subject to the use of any or all tools in the state’s arsenal — regardless of the initial purpose behind the acquisition and application of such tools — merely for the sake of expedience.
A judge in Niagra County, New York, ruled Thursday that DNA evidence, obtained only after police applied a Taser to a suspect who refused to provide evidence against himself, may be used by the prosecution because the electric shock was not administered with malice.A bit more here.Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza, with this 17-page decision, becomes “the first judge in western civilization to say you can use a Taser to enforce a court order,” defense attorney Patrick Balkin said, according to The Niagara Gazette. Source
The sheer leap from argumentation condoning the incapacitation of an assailant to condoning incapacitation of recalcitrance is beyond breathtaking.
