More Obama rama ..

[LAK]

Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 12.40pm in Entrepreneurship.
 
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 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.

http://blog.heritage.org/2008/06/09/obama-among-supporters-of-national-fingerprint-registry/

What’s a little odd is the lack of public discussion about this new fingerprint database. No mention of it appears in the official summary of the revised Senate bill. No fingerprint database requirement is in the House version of the legislation approved earlier this month. No copy of the revised Senate legislation is posted on the Library of Congress’ Thomas Web site, which would be the usual procedure.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9951420-38.html

.... Nonsense, Chertoff responded. "Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles all over the world. They're like footprints. They're not particularly private," he said, according to Canadian news reports and privacy lawyer Peter Swire, a senior fellow and guest blogger at the Center for American Progress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403617.html

Good, Michael - perhaps you then won't mind having yours printed up and posted on the web for all to see and copy.

See, Michael states the obvious. Yet it takes some extraordinary work to collect someone's prints - knowing they belong to a specific person - off of a glass, or door knob, and make use of them. But with a gov mandated database of them stored by one of those "secure" private contractors, using a number of now low tech processes, anyone's prints could be reliably recreated on a medium in relief and then planted on anything, anywhere that is desired.

Handy tool eh comrade Michael? Like framing people perhaps?

NOTE: Anyone that can tell me how to remove that lineout in the paragraphs above and I'll get rid of it - I even tried typing it out on a separate page, cutting it and pasting that one - and it miraculously has a line through it again. The link works regardless.

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[Standing Wolf]

Somewhere, far beyond the grave, Karl Marx is laughing himself silly.

[Manedwolf]

Chertoff.

Mr. "You'll need a passport to enter a national park."

Skeletor needed to be thrown out or given to Putin or Mugabe yesterday.

[longeyes]

Disturbingly predictable.