Hmmm, And the difference is .... what???

The Foundry » Blog Archive » Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry:

"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."

Okay so where is the ACLU speaking against this bill? Where is the anti-Obama talk that there would be had the bill been a republican bill (anti-Bush)? Where is the outcry about how people are being presumed guilty before a crime is committed?

And if ... if by a slim chance ... some criminal is caught w/o actually having committed a crime - how will the courts handle it?

Or what if running a personale check thru the data base shows that there was once a bench warrent out for someone who missed a court date by mistake and that fact gets used for a basis to either (a)not hire or (b)terminate the person?? would there be grounds for a lawsuit?

How strange that the party that is "against" government invasion of privacy .... sorry trying to stiffle the laugh ... is the one pushing this bill thru.

At first I thought the story was going to say that it was for anyone previously convicted of a crime ... since they are criminals ... but it is for anyone who deals with the housing industry, basically.

These are the same people who were against a national Health Registry because the thought the ability of an emergency dr. in Oklahoma being able to access the medical records of a patient from NY was an 'invasion of privacy' ... but this isn't??

Yes and people want him as our next President .... I can see the day when Bush will be looked back upon as one of the Great American Presidents.