Grigory Pasko: Fingerprinting and Russia’s Repressive Fantasies
Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, recently came up with the brilliant idea of fingerprinting and DNA registering the entire population of the country, or at least that’s what is stated in his report the collegium of the Procuracy-General of the RF. Bastrykin declared: « …And on the whole it would be useful to introduce a fingerprint and genome registration for the entire population of the RF. And this is connected not only with the struggle with criminality, and what is being spoken of here is not about the total suspicion of all citizens of the commission of crimes, but this is needed, first and foremost, to provide for the security of the citizens themselves».
And what did you expect from the Bastrykins, anyway? This is nothing compared with what they’ll propose in the future.
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They could, after all, if they take a creative approach to this process and come up with all kinds of other things … in fact, it’s an interesting exercise to imagine the profound depths of the siloviki’s repressive fantasies.
For example, they could make casts of the teeth of all dogs. Or collect samples of everyone’s bad breath. Issue handcuffs to everybody, so they could shackle themselves at home and not go out in the streets. Especially on the 31st of the month.
Also we’ve got to take a caliper and measure the heads of these citizens, just in case, for their own security, and then implant chips into all these measured heads.