Thats funny. As part of my US citizenship application I had to undergo a background check and then biometric collection.marksiwel wrote:What you dont want the government to have your DNA and Fingerprints on file? Now can I see your papers citizen?
Here is the kicker, I'm a now a US citizen, but apparently a second rate US citizen. The FBI holds a file on me, although I have never been convicted of a crime. My fingerprints, iris scan, and picture are in a government held database even though I am not a threat to the government and willingly pledged my allegiance to this great country. One would have imagined after I was accepted as a US citizen I would have the same rights as my fellow countrymen, my file deleted. Most of us here are of immigrant decent, I was just a few hundreds years later than most.
Is Freedom Free? No.
Don't get me wrong I love being a US citizen, and knowingly accepted I would be indexed and filed. I'm just saying that sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do in order to see the bigger picture. Maybe I'll live long enough to see a change in immigration law were a US citizen is just that. When "WE THE PEOPLE" applies to all of us. I suspect I won't. I've seen a government turn against its people, take their guns, their liberty, their freedom. Orwellian indeed!
God Bless America, and her Constitution that keeps us the worlds freest nation! Lets not lose sight of what we have here.
On a side note - If it was ever discovered a clerical error had been made on my 4 year long application process, say for example a clerk entered the wrong date on a form, I could be denaturalized at any time. Even if I lived here for 60 years or more. Kinda scary....