[TheForge] Criminal Background Check

[Andrew Vida]

wmullett at bright.net wrote:
> I volunteer at Zoar, Ohio which is a historical site run by the Ohio
> Historical Society.  They now require a criminal background check of
> all their volunteers.  I don't have a problem with that except the
> check mandates that you must submit your fingerprints.

	This was the same at Ft. Vancouver in WA.  That was enough to put the 
kybosh on my volunteering.  What a pathetic state this nation has 
decayed into.  It turns my stomach.
> 
> Why would anyone want to be put in that database where some "expert"
> might conclude that your prints match some partials they collected?

	The issue is far more fundamental than even that.  Who are they to 
demand such a check?  Starting a relationship on the presumption of 
guilt is a wholesale crap way of doing things.  I can see it for work at 
CIA and such places, but *THIS*?  It is beneath contempt.