Fingerprint Registry In Housing Bill
Linked from Drudge:
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/05/23/fingerprint-registry-in...
"Recently, 'Server in the Sky' — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t 'personal data.'
"Yet earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The legislation would 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 the kind of crap that we are fighting, folks. Like a snowball rolling downhill, the tyranny keeps gaining momentum. Time for us to give liberty some momentum before it's completely crushed.
