James,
Helping Law Enforcement find the criminals (domestic enemies) who prey on
society is not whitewashing or giving away any Constitutional Rights.
History has proven that we can have security with all our rights present.
But, Freedom is not free.
The key is to have the strong citizens of the USA to stand up and defend our
rights. This by defending the rights of everyone in the USA even the ones we
detest. This includes politicians, hate mongers and those that prey on
others for physical or psychological reasons.
While in the military and as a peace officer, I swore to Protect and Defend
the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign
and domestic.
I give up no Constitutional rights in sharing my DNA profile to help solve
cold cases. I made a logical and clear cut decision to opt in.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
Carpenter Cousins Project - Our main support page!
https://carpentercousins.com
Freedom Is Not Free
- Kelly Strong
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of TAPS one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That TAPS had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Carpenter via CARPENTER
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:18 AM
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: James Carpenter
Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: FTDNA opts into crowd sourcing to help solve cold
case crimes
White washing giving away your constitutional protections. Those who give up
their rights for security will have neither.
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 5:35 PM, John R. Carpenter<jrcrin001(a)gmail.com>
wrote: Hello Cousins!
FTDNA has just made a special announcement allowing FTDNA members to opt in
to help Law Enforcement to help solve cold case crimes. The current focus is
on autosomal DNA (atDNA) also called Family Finder at FTDNA and the Ancestry
DNA test at
Ancestry.com.
This will allow Law Enforcement to work with FTDNA, without a search warrant
and under FTDNA supervision, to help solve often violent criminal acts like
murder and rape. In essence, FTDNA has created an opt in database to help
Law Enforcement solve cold cases.
The goal is that those that are concerned with crime and those who wish to
help solve crimes via crowd sourced effort. I encourage people to help by
opting in to take a bite out of crime. Pun intended!
See News release at:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ed-smart-father-of-elizabeth-sma...
See also:
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613232/help-us-catch-killer...
If you have DNA tested at another DNA testing company, you can join FTDNA
for free and transfer your atDNA data for free to opt in to help solve
violent criminal acts.
If you choose to participate, and already have a FTDNA atDNA (Family Finder)
kit already, sign in, then go to:
https://www.familytreedna.com/join – scroll down about halfway to ...
Then click on the red tab OPT IN TO MATCHING.
By the way - I also opted in to allow my mtDNA and Y-DNA to be shared.
A little background information. The US Supreme Court (USSC) ruled in a case
called: Carpenter verses the United States (I kid you not!) that Carpenters
4th amendment was violated by Law Enforcement because they did not have a
legal warrant to search the password protected phone and GPS history of
Carpenters phone. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
The key is that the court ruled the password protected area of the phone a
private database. Before this ruling the USSC Court had decided that
semi-private and private databases were essentially the same and a warrant
was not needed (except for some US States that required a legal warrant
based on State laws).
This by legal extension applies to other private databases protected by a
password system like
FTDNA.com and other DNA testing companies.
This means that if Law Enforcement wants to look at say atDNA profiles under
a secure password system, then they need a legal warrant (aka search
warrant) to do so.
By allowing you to opt in to sharing your DNA data with Law Enforcement
(under FTDNA supervision to protect your privacy), you will become part of
the crime fighting citizen science and crowd sourced effort.
I encourage everyone to participate. I am happy to answer any questions that
I can.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
Carpenter Cousins Project - Our main support page!
https://carpentercousins.com