Pirate Bay Lawyer Arrested and DNA Swabbed
June 3rd, 2006I always thought Swedes were civilized:
While talking the officer conducting the hearing suddenly enters the room only to inform me that an order has been issued by the prosecutor to collect a DNA-sample from me. For an instant I think that she is trying to make a tasteless joke. But I can tell from her facial expression that she is not. Do I sense a touch of rapture from her? Is she enjoying this as much as I am NOT enjoying it?
(Note that a court order is not needed to get a DNA-sample in Sweden. Only an executive decision by the prosecutor handling the case. The only criteria that he has to adhere to are that jail must be a possible punishment for the crime and that the person forced to leave the sample is under justified suspicion of the crime. However an infringement into someone’s right to protection from invasive procedures of this magnitude requires that a criterion of necessity and proportionality is considered. “Luckily” in this case the prosecutor is not one know from listening to whiny arguments about personal freedoms and other such nancy stuff)
[…]http://viborginternational.blogspot.com/2006/06/operation-take-down.html
Clearly I was wrong.
They swabbed him for the sole purpose of humiliation, nothing else. This is the true spirit behind biometrics and DNA databases; debasement of humanity, humiliation and subjugation.
There is absolutely no reason to do this in a SUSPECTED case of copyright infringement. These people are beyond insane.
SHAME on Sweden for engaging in this bad business.
June 5th, 2006 at 10:14 am
This is utterly awful, there is no conceivable reason how DNA can assist an investigation into these alleged crimes, FFS he only gave legal advice to Pirate Bay, even if his advice was wrong and Pirate Bay was ‘illegal’ then it only shows he is a bad legal adviser, hardly a justification for this treatment.
It can only be some sort of precautiion to stop this person ‘disappearing’.
Also that another of the Pirate Bay accused was denied access to a lawyer stinks.
June 5th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Read the list of violations in the TPB raid:
http://www.xmule.ws/node/51
This is the sort of action you would expect in a dictatorship, Soviet Russia or Feudal England. Someone that you have pissed off with a pamphlet you wrote makes a phone call, they burn down your house.
Some minister wants your wife; they come around and kill you and black bag her for him.
You get the picture.