Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry

[IEATV8S]

Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) authored a bill (with 11 co-sponsors, including Sen. Barack Obama) that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee 19-2 before the Memorial Day recess — a bill that creates a national fingerprint registry.
According to a Martinez press release, the language merely “create[s] national licensing and oversight standards for residential mortgage originators.”
One of the standards, John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says, may “require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds.”
This is a step in the wrong direction — at least for a nation that preserves freedom.


Where are all our LIBERAL friends who complained so much about the Patriot act and the wire tape issue????

[salvageV6]

Hey if Feinsteen says it's okay it must be well,... okay.

Lefty outrage?

OH THE SHAME!

[IEATV8S]

TTT

Where are all you LIBERALS when this issue comes up??? Let's hear it Gothy, Weepster, Qwirker, any of you dummies?????

[henschman]

i thought you were for all that surveillance state stuff ieatv8s? whatever happened to "if you don't have anything to hide, why not give them your prints?"

[IEATV8S]

Originally Posted by henschman

i thought you were for all that surveillance state stuff ieatv8s? whatever happened to "if you don't have anything to hide, why not give them your prints?"

I am, but I want to see how this legislation, that the left threw out there and smacks of HYPOCRISY, is going to be defended but the liberal left here on this forum!

If anyone has the balls to!

I didn't realize that "residential mortgage originators.” were a "TERRORIST" threat to anyone!