Friday, February 1, 2013 – 08:15 a.m.
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos obviously has another political agenda. It’s just unclear as to what it is at this point.
But, whatever the plan is, Ramos just threw a wrench into the works by way of his bizarre idea to force DNA samples from immigrants applying for U.S. Citizenship.
That’s right, a DNA sample. It looks like fingerprints must not do the trick anymore. Can’t you just see it now. Welcome to the United States of America! Please submit to a violation of your civil rights by allowing us to swab your mouth.
Ramos has been a busy, busy, busy, guy over the past several months, announcing one task force after another.
Yes, Ramos is going after human trafficking, serious DUI offenders, and anything else that sounds good in the press. Even though he’s receiving no tangible funding to support these highly-trumpeted endeavours. The Ramos press machine makes his peers in San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties, look like amateurs.
This latest brainchild is a whopper though. But it’s not surprising coming from a prosecutor, who’s used to violating the civil rights of others.
The immigrant DNA fiasco did, in fact, achieve what Ramos was seeking. That being nationwide press coverage. But, he even lost the San Bernardino Sun newspaper, his key supporter and defender, on this one. In an editorial, published Friday, the newspaper referred to the idea as being “Too Orwellian!”
One has to wonder who drove this train down the track. Ramos should take the architect of this one out behind the woodshed.
Democrats run Sacramento, and pretty much Washington D.C. for that matter, and as this proposal sinks in, the more it’s hated. Calls of racism are starting to percolate.
What’s next out of the Ramos press mill? Maybe a proposal to drug test driver’s license applicants.
Mike Ramos is building a fence for deflection of the title wave that will hit soon.
YES MIKEY, convince the taxpayers your a crime fighter in hopes they will IGNORE the other issues you are failing at.
Is Dave Ellis helping you build that fence? I bet he is.
Only those who drink your KOOL-Aid will be the ones floating in that sunami that is in bound.
QUICK Mikey, get before those news camera announcing your latest crime fighting agenda, just like you did in the Colonies and the POST scandal.
We know you can’t even convict a deputy trying to steal a cigarette lighter.
Who is serving up the popcorn, Joe Nelson??
You really ought to take the time to investigate an issue before you issue a condemnation… The type of DNA testing done by law enforcement agencies, is just another means of personal identification. no more, no less..
The locations on the DNA molecule that they look at are in the “non-coding” or “juck” regions. That’s means that other than one marker that indicates male or female, you can’t tell anything else about the contributor of the sample. You can’t tell hair color, height, weight, or predisposition for diseases. Access to determined profiles is highly restricted and miss use can result in civil and criminal penalties to the offending laboratory.
Don’t believe everything you hear in the news or on the internet about DNA tests invading someones privacy…. that’s bunk… don’t believe me, try http://www.DNA.gov to obtain more information.
We know you can’t even convict a deputy trying to steal a cigarette lighter.
No, but he can convict a corrupt Rancho Cucamonga council man.
Crime Lab Guy: By your own description, the tattooed numbers on Jews by the Nazis was “just another means of personal identification” eh. Some of you folks in law enforcement have your heads up your ass.
hey MIKEY TICK TICK TICK BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!! Time is closing in then your gone you scumbag
ps DNA samples lol what a moron
So, I own a car. Deive it daily for 5 years and sell it. 4 Years later it is used in a bank robbery and someone is killed. The vehicle is found and recovered. A DNA test is done in the car. My DNA comes up, as I am in the military DNA files. The other persons DNA isn’t in a database.
I am interviewed for the crime, and during the time period I was out camping in the wilderness. No one that I know of saw me.
I am arrested based on the evidence for the crime. A quick check of the DMV database would clear me. But that DNA comes back to me.
Now I have to defend myself, for something that I didn’t do. Don’t think it can happen. Think SB County and our DA….
Anonymous on February 1st, 2013 7:50 pm
We know you can’t even convict a deputy trying to steal a cigarette lighter.
No, but he can convict a corrupt Rancho Cucamonga council man.
YES Red when the city councilman has an INEPT lawyer, or did you miss that?
Now if you were REALLY paying attention you MIGHT also see those who have LAWYERS who aren’t attached to Mikey Ramos’s butt or are part of the local club who just don’t want to mix it up with Mikey are the lawyers who are handling business.
And you must add Rex was not the brightest bulb either. 2+2 equals disaster.
I’ll even say that applies to the Derry’s situation with a little different mix, but a conviction is a conviction. My opinion Derry’s was brighter than Rex, but Derry’s took the advise of his attorney who appears to have been more about the bucks than the outcome. YES I could be wrong.
The deputy being less experienced in politics and the local system than Rex and Derry, but actually had GUTS, added with a lawyer who knew the local system and didn’t care about upsetting Mikey was the key.
Is that fair enough for you, or would you just like me to say Mike Ramos is the man?
ACU…You just said it. BTW, Everyone raved about these lawyers that you call inept while the cases were in full swing just like every one raved about Romney all the way until the day after election. You folks fold mighty easily. I think the fact that they chose to represent openly corrupt individuals is what made them inept, you think it is the fact that they lost the case, in any event, It was a jury of your peers that sealed Rex’s fate and it was Derry that sealed his own, but non would have been possible without the persistence of DA Ramos.
Ok Red Ramos TOTAL across the board convictions or pleas
are nothing to get excited about.
But if you are, ok. Send him a nice thank you
card.
But ask him to hurry up on the Colonies, we
are getting old.
To the Administrator: freaking outstanding commentary!