Democrats Add National Fingerprint Registry to Mortgage Bailout Bill

The Patriot Act is encroaching on the rights and privacy of the American people. Bush is trampling the constitution. Bush is spying on the American people. Bush is listening to everybody’s private conversations. Bush is a terrorist who engineered the 9/11 attacks so he could reign in the freedoms of the American people. Bush lied us into war. Bush lied, people died.

BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, and on and on the list goes. We have heard all of the above from the far left over the last eight years. We have even heard some of the above by Democrats in congress over the last eight years.

So what have the Democrats done to right this supposed wrong, nothing! As a matter of fact they approved extending the Patriot Act when they had the chance to kill it. Why? Because in spite of all the rhetoric they thought is was the right thing to do. They talk about ending the war, yet continue to vote to fund the war. Why? Because in spite of what they say, it is the right thing to do. They talk a good game to appease the far left moonbats, but they vote differently when the chips are on the table.

With all of the talk about how President Bush has trampled over the constitution with the foreign surveillance program and the Patriot Act by the left you can imagine my surprise when I read this story.

Chris Dodd engineered a compromise with former Democrat turned Republican Richard Shelby that would create a federal registry of fingerprints that is totally unrelated to national security. In fact it was added to the housing bill and targets law abiding home mortgage lenders.

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. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of 19-2. The measure the committee passed states that “an individual may not engage in the business of a loan originator without first … obtaining a unique identifier.” To obtain this “identifier,” an individual is required to “furnish” to the newly created Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry “information concerning the applicant’s identity, including fingerprints for submission” to the FBI and other government agencies.

I find this astounding coming from the party that has accused President Bush of restricting the rights and freedoms of the American people. A national fingerprint registry for law abiding citizens who just happen to be in the mortgage industry? Will it stop there? Or will the Democrats expand their attack on the right to privacy to other citizens? I think we all know it will not stop here.

The same party that opposes voter identification laws now wants to create a national fingerprint registry. According to the Democrats, you do not have to prove you are who you say you are when you vote because it is infringing on the rights of the people. Evidently requiring a person to show a photo ID when they vote is racist and hurts the poor, don’t ask me how, but that’s what they claim. However, they don’t have a problem with a person who is in the mortgage industry from having to provide fingerprints so that they can be tracked. Does anybody else see the hypocrisy here?

Infringement is in the eye of the beholder, evidently. We are to believe that Democrats are looking out for us while Republicans are merely looking at us.

Who do these fuckers think they are?