Texas drivers stopped at roadblock and asked for DNA samples

  According to this report, as part of a Federal government survey, several Texas drivers, who had done nothing wrong, were stopped at a roadblock and asked to provide Federal contractors with DNA samples:

Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood.

It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.

“It just doesn’t seem right that you can be forced off the road when you’re not doing anything wrong,” said Kim Cope, who said she was on her lunch break when she was forced to pull over at the roadblock on Beach Street in North Fort Worth.

  The Federal officials are defending this survey by claiming it is voluntary, but not everyone is buying it:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is spending $7.9 million on the survey over three years, said participation was “100 percent voluntary” and anonymous.

But Cope said it didn’t feel voluntary to her — despite signs saying it was.

“I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to go straight, but he wouldn’t let me and forced me into a parking spot,” she said.

“They were asking for cheek swabs,” she said. “They would give $10 for that. Also, if you let them take your blood, they would pay you $50 for that.”

At the very least, she said, they wanted to test her breath for alcohol.

She said she felt trapped.

“I finally did the Breathalyzer test just because I thought that would be the easiest way to leave,” she said, adding she received no money.

  Does anyone really believe that people who fail to voluntarily give the Federal government a DNA sample will not be suspected of trying to hide something?

I have been saying for quite awhile now that between the NSA spying scandal, the IRS targeting scandal, and the fact that 20,000 drones will be flying over United States cities in the near future that America was already in a soft police state, and I wondered how long it would be before this soft police state became a hard police state. It looks like I have my answer…..