[StoneWall Brigade]

“They who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty or security” - Benjamin Franklin

[dcwusmc]

Imagine that. What’s next? Never mind, we already know. The FedGoons are NEVER satisfied. It’s more, more, more. Until we, the People, have nothing left.

[SpaceBar]

Allow a flood of extranational interlopers and people of questionable allegiance to infiltrate society over many decades, then introduce “a solution” straight out of a futuristic sci-fi police state novel. Yea, that’s the ticket.

[LucyT]

Oh, yeah, this will work just fine. /s

My fingerprints don’t match the ones the feds have on file. Luckily my real fingerprints were on file at the sheriff’s office back when I applied for a CC permit.

[Squeako]

And here I was wondering how Chertoff got to the top of my “Most Incompetent Bureaucrats” list.

[Ranxerox]

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'd like to know just who authors these little gems, and then slips them into legislative bills. Just some faceless staff member working for a Congressman or Senator - or is it more devious than that?