TomClancyWannaBe
1st July 2008, 23:04
Currently, I’m preparing to write a polisci thriller in which one of the lead characters will be forced to obtain new fingerprints in order to assume a new identity.
Since I with to make this novel as accurate as possible, and intend to set it in the near future, it is necessary to have the character employ techniques currently available and interact in a political/legal/international environment nearly identical to the current environment.
I’ve already located several articles describing individuals who have undergone surgery to transplant skin from their feet to their fingers and hands in order to alter their prints.
I have several questions about such surgeries;
A) If done under the best possible conditions, how successful would this technique be in both concealing a previous identity and appearing natural and seamless?
B) Would this technique allow an individual to survive a standard fingerprint examination by local police forces (even if those prints were forwarded to the FBI)
C) The articles describe these surgeries being performed in Nicaragua, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Estonia, Georgia (the country), Russia, and Cuba. Which of these countries, or others that you know of, offers the highest quality surgery?
D) Is the surgery legal in any of these countries and, if not, do any of them have governments that ‘look the other way’?
E) How long would it take for the patient to recover to the point that their scars are nearly unnoticeable?
F) How would a perspective patient contact a surgeon willing to perform this surgery?
Thank you for answering these questions and for providing any other details you feel are pertinent.
My novel, which will be set in the not-too-distant future will focus on a group of patriots who are attempting to topple a federal government which has become dominated by it's unelected federal judiciary. As this unelected federal judiciary continues to employ "judicial review" to "reinterpret" the Constitution [an intended check on federal power, approved by the American people which needs no "reinterpreting"] it soon assumes the power to appoint its own members and then seize power from the elected branches and the American people.
Considering how the Supreme Court has already stripped us of our property rights, free speech rights, or right to bear arms (to protect ourselves from the government) this "future" is closer then many of you would want to imagine.
As they attempt to overthrow the judicial autocracy and restore power to the elected branches of government (and thus to the American people who do the electing), the novels protagonists will violate many of the federal laws arbitrarly created (through "judicial review") by the federal courts.
Thus these patriots, fighting to restore the Constitution of the United States, will need to alter their fingerprints to conceil their identies from the increasingly intrusive federally controlled agencies like the FBI, ATF and others.
Since I with to make this novel as accurate as possible, and intend to set it in the near future, it is necessary to have the character employ techniques currently available and interact in a political/legal/international environment nearly identical to the current environment.
I’ve already located several articles describing individuals who have undergone surgery to transplant skin from their feet to their fingers and hands in order to alter their prints.
I have several questions about such surgeries;
A) If done under the best possible conditions, how successful would this technique be in both concealing a previous identity and appearing natural and seamless?
B) Would this technique allow an individual to survive a standard fingerprint examination by local police forces (even if those prints were forwarded to the FBI)
C) The articles describe these surgeries being performed in Nicaragua, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Estonia, Georgia (the country), Russia, and Cuba. Which of these countries, or others that you know of, offers the highest quality surgery?
D) Is the surgery legal in any of these countries and, if not, do any of them have governments that ‘look the other way’?
E) How long would it take for the patient to recover to the point that their scars are nearly unnoticeable?
F) How would a perspective patient contact a surgeon willing to perform this surgery?
Thank you for answering these questions and for providing any other details you feel are pertinent.
My novel, which will be set in the not-too-distant future will focus on a group of patriots who are attempting to topple a federal government which has become dominated by it's unelected federal judiciary. As this unelected federal judiciary continues to employ "judicial review" to "reinterpret" the Constitution [an intended check on federal power, approved by the American people which needs no "reinterpreting"] it soon assumes the power to appoint its own members and then seize power from the elected branches and the American people.
Considering how the Supreme Court has already stripped us of our property rights, free speech rights, or right to bear arms (to protect ourselves from the government) this "future" is closer then many of you would want to imagine.
As they attempt to overthrow the judicial autocracy and restore power to the elected branches of government (and thus to the American people who do the electing), the novels protagonists will violate many of the federal laws arbitrarly created (through "judicial review") by the federal courts.
Thus these patriots, fighting to restore the Constitution of the United States, will need to alter their fingerprints to conceil their identies from the increasingly intrusive federally controlled agencies like the FBI, ATF and others.