1996 - As Americans become more concerned with the growing missing and abducted children problem, and law enforcement groups urge the fingerprinting of children for investigative purposes in the event of a child becoming missing.
I believe this is but an excuse. I have not heard of any child being reunited with their family based on fingerprint identification. Have you? Currently there is a very high profile case of child abduction case in Missouri, USA. The two, yes two, abducted children were liberated based on the tip of a viligant teenager.
My concern is that there is no control, other than the government's, over the use of the fingerprints. NAZI Germany used tattoos to mark their victims. This is no more than a tattoo which cannot be removed. Often the best intentions have been subverted into something evil and I believe our children are at greater risk from the government (fingerprints are yours forever) than from anyone who would do them evil.
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