A Beastial Template

From today's headlines:

The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.

Lord Justice Sedley said the Wales and England system, under which 4m people's DNA is held whether guilty or cleared of a crime, was "indefensible".

He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent", as it was biased against ethnic minorities.

Written on a Greek island 1,912 years ago:

And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. 4 Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander His name and His dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of Earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. [b] ....

11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of Earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to Earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of Earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

No, I'm not suggesting Lord Justice Sedley is the Antichrist. But a ready-made universal DNA database in every country would sure come in handy when the real deal is ready to make make landfall. Don't be surprised if his insidious idea isn't the start of a nefarious trend.