THE FOUNDRY: Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry

REPORT: 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.

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Wait! I thought President Bush is the mad fascist that took away our civil rights and freedom of speech and privacy!! This bill is authored and supported by the liberals!??! NO WAY!!!

*ahem*

The far left are the freedom suppressors as this comes to prove once again.

-Andres