Hell Has Frozen Over: I Agree with Alex Mooney

Yes, that Mooney--the right-wing kook state senator who hopes to ride his way to Congress on a potpourri of demagoguery and self-righteousness. More specifically, I share his concern regarding the Governor's DNA proposal. From the Washington Post:

Even O'Malley's leading public safety proposal -- an expansion of the state's DNA database to include samples taken during arrests for violent crimes and burglaries -- has a relatively small fiscal effect: about $1 million a year in state funds. Lawmakers reached a compromise on that bill yesterday afternoon and sent it to O'Malley.

The DNA legislation cleared both chambers by large margins but continued to draw objections from some lawmakers, who questioned why the state would move away from its policy of taking samples at the time of conviction.

"We're taking DNA from people who are innocent under law," said Sen. Alex X. Mooney (R-Frederick).

Maybe it's because it is late and I think I am coming down with something but I think it is a bad idea to permanently add someone's DNA to a database when they haven't been found guilty of any crime. It is one thing to check DNA after an arrest but shouldn't one have to be found guilty of a crime of some threshold before getting added to the database?