State control & DNA

The principle of an individual's interaction with the State should be that it assumes conduct of those aspects of life that are best handled on a group level - so, health care, national insurance, defence, criminal sanctions, foreign affairs, public services - the key thing is that all powers assumed by the State are those that the democratically elected representatives of the population have decided to confer on the State. It follows that all else remains in the sole competence of the individual - the State has no rights over us, merely to administer functions that we have devolved to it.

Thus we are able to do and say anything that we wish, unless our elected representatives, in the exercise of the powers that we have devolved to them, have jurisdiction over such matters - in other words, if it's not banned or criminalised with our consent, it is absolutely unrestricted. We seem to be heading to a situation where the State has assumed the mirror image of this disposition of powers - we are at the point where in the UK you can only do what you are allowed to do, rather than being able to do and say anything that is not specifically prohibited. This is incredibly important and is being ignored - we have allowed ourselves to be subsumed into the machinery of government for government's sake, rather than merely giving effect to devolved powers.

DNA is ours, the State has no rights to it, no ability to take it, store it, monitor us or control us - this is not government by consent, it is silent tyranny.