The whole Patriot Act and subequent bills pushed through by Bush, taking away your civil liberties, piece by piece. Fortunately we have democrats to help preserve our rights.
The criticism of the Patriot Act and many others is, innocent Americans would be swept up ... (none to date have been, but set the facts aside) and forced to bear burdens and suffering.
Unless it is Obama and other Democrats doing the taking, then liberals will not squeal as loud, if at all.
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Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 12.40pm
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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