VA Wants Our DNA

Found at VA Watch Dog, the most recent of a series of postings on this subject.

VA BEGINS COLLECTING DNA FOR LARGE-SCALE "GENE BANK"
When does ones militay service to this country end?
In a perfect World, and especially a Country that likes to think of itself as 'The Perfect Example' if it ever really was, this wouldn't be a bad idea and yet another way of a group of citizens, though a select group that already have given more than the Greater Majority, giving to the society for the advancement of that society and World.

But this certainly isn't a perfect World, and again Especially this Country, of which the Faults grow in number rather than the Advances toward perfection. Hell with what has been going on in our recent history it will take years to get back to where we once were, and that certainly wasn't perfection.

The VA is collecting DNA from veterans and linking the information
to their medical records. Who gets this information? Drug
companies? Insurance companies? Private researchers?
VA cannot guarantee the security or privacy of this information.

Military personal, and Veterans, have been used as guinea pigs, in this country and the citizens of the countries we invade, since the beginning, let alone as the Canon Fodder for the elitist in Conflicts for their own Misguided Ideals as well as the Power and Wealth derived from same.

Certainly not for spreading Democracy and Freedom. Both of which can't be explained to those we are dropping bombs on as we destroy their countries and established cultures, while saying "We are trying to Win Their Hearts and Minds".

Need a few examples of the Veterans being used, how about this search page Atomic Vets, or this one Agent Orange, or Defoliants in War, or lets get abit more recent Gulf War Syndrome, and even closer to the present Depleted Uranium, or the questions being raised about the newer Blood Coagulants being used in our present War Theaters.

And last of this extremely short list, for there are hundreds of examples, but should be at the top of Any List along side 'War As The Last Resort' is the age old result of Wars Post Tramatic Stress Disorder

All in the above examples have long history's of being Ignored, and fought over, by the Government who sends the Military into War and the Society the Military is supposed to be serving, with the Veterans on the loosing end!

Some backround links, from the The VA Watchdog Site as to this most recent post Here can be found Here and Here.

As Larry states at site:

Let's put this complicated process into perspective: The VA will ask veterans to donate their DNA. The VA will link this genetic information to the veteran's medical records. This will be used for research. At this point the question is, "Who gets this information?"
The VA cannot guarantee the security of this information. It could get into the hands of researchers, drug companies, insurance companies and others.
If asked, I will NOT donate my DNA to the VA...and I encourage other veterans to do the same.

I agree with Larry!

The Original Article: VA to launch large-scale genetic data collection
by Nancy Ferris
Published on Dec. 27, 2006
is located at Government Health IT at the above link and also posted at the top link at VA Watch Dog

In this Run Amok Capitalist Society, we have created, where the squeeze is on for every dime that can be grabbed, by the few, out of the majority, especially as we produce little now but pay heavily for much we actually may not even need, in the Health Care Industry especially, it's anyones guess what would be made from the Private Information of a Select Group who have already given way too much and are still owed for that Service To Country!!

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow