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| Tell Your Representative to Reject the PATRIOT Act Sneak Attack Before Today’s Vote!; Kevin Bankston, EFF | |
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| chrisbornag | Feb 8 2011, 10:33 AM Post #1 |
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Tell Your Representative to Reject the PATRIOT Act Sneak Attack Before Today’s Vote! http://www.activistpost.com/2011/02/tell-your-representative-to-reject.html Kevin Bankston EFF Tell your Congressperson to vote NO on the USA PATRIOT Act in today’s vote! The PATRIOT reauthorization bill being fast-tracked to the House floor contains NO reforms to the law, and will be voted upon with NO debate and NO opportunity for amendments to add oversight and accountability. Help stop this sneak attack on your civil liberties: there are only hours left to visit our Action Center and tell your Representative to vote “NO” on H.R. 514, the PATRIOT extension bill... EFF Staff: http://www.eff.org/about/staff |
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| chrisbornag | Feb 9 2011, 02:03 PM Post #2 |
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Thank you! Patriot Act extension fails in the House by seven votes - preciseNews http://www.precisenews.us/tags/search/?nbr=30&nbrTagsPerArticle=5&tag=Patriot%20Act%20extension%20fails%20in%20the%20House%20by%20seven%20votes USA Patriot Act Provisions Extension H.R.514 -Motion to Suspend Rules and Pass - Fails http://www.dailypaul.com/156468/house-of-reps-talking-about-patriot-act-now-230pm-est-on-cspan "In the roll call vote scheduled for 6:30PM EST the Extension of the USA Patriot Act Provisions H.R.514 fails to get a two thirds majority to suspend the rules and pass the bill. Vote: 277-148" HR 514: Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul Vote Nay On Patriot Act Extension http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979035483 "Tea Party Republicans united with House Democrats to vote down HR 514, a bill aimed at extending expiring provisions of the Patriot Act. Unfortunately, their victory may be short lived." Patriot Act Extension - H.R. 514 - Voting Record - We now know who is who. http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/patriot-act-extension-hr-514 Part2 http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/patriot-act-extension-hr-514-1 Part3 http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/patriot-act-extension-hr-514-2 House Rejects Extension of Patriot Act Provisions as 26 Republicans Defect http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-rejects-extension-of-patriot-act-provisions-as-26-republicans-defect [Note: Good for them!] Barbour: Iran biggest threat to global security http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/02/09/barbour_iran_biggest_threat_to_global_security/?s_campaign=8315 "Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says Iran is the world's top threat to peace and stability. Barbour, who is a potential 2012 presidential Republican candidate, says world leaders should be judged by their success in responding to Iran's nuclear program and what he says is its support for terrorism and destabilizing governments abroad." Note that he is in Israel to kick off his bid for the US Presidency! No government can serve two masters, etc. You know the rest. US terror threat highest since 9/11 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12407859 Tags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY "Forget all about the economy and the mortgage-backed security fraud, and the fraudclosures, and the homelessness, and the poverty, and starvation, and the FCIC report that said it would all have been avoided if Wall Street played by the rules and the US Government had enforced the rules. And forget all about the gulf oil disaster, which also could have been avoided if the US Government has enforced the rules. And please forget all about how the US Government flat-out lied to you about Saddam's 'nookular' bombs, the level of unemployment, Iran's nuclear power station, global warming, 9-11, TWA 800, JFK, RFK, MLK, OK City and ALL that other stuff. Forget about TSA grabbing your crotch, looting (and breaking) your laptops, and giving you cancer with those scanners and STDs with those gloves. Forget about the reading of your emails, the tapping of your phones, the tracking of your movements and the raids into your computers. Forget all about that stuff; think about TERROR! There are TERRORISTS hiding under your bed and in your closets! They are coming to steal socks out of your dryer and underwear out of your drawers. They are ripping the tags off of your seat cushions. They are planning to cause errors on your 1040 forms! They are planning to fart in elevators! They are going to rig the votes on American Idol. They are coming. Any second they will attack. Any second. Any second now, Really, They are coming, Honest, Any second now. (Someone phone Tel Aviv and ask them what the holdup is.) Ooooooh, scary SCARY terrorists! " -- Official White Horse Souse" [Note: "Don't be fooled again by a U.S. State/Israel sponsored 'terrorist attack' on America, please!"] CB Edited by chrisbornag, Feb 9 2011, 02:05 PM.
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| chrisbornag | Feb 10 2011, 05:59 PM Post #3 |
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GOP Leaders Bring Patriot Act Back To House Floor After Defeat http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=13884 Nooo! Why we should repudiate the antipatriotic U.S. “Patriot Acts”? Taken from: Kym Thorne and Alexander Kouzmin. The USA PATRIOT Acts (et al.): Convergent Legislation and Oligarchic Isomorphism in the "Politics of Fear" and State Crime(s) Against Democracy (SCADs). American Behavioral Scientist 2010 53: 885-920. URL: http://911.lege.net/ABS53N62010 [To find the references] "The USA PATRIOT Acts of 2001/2006, sanctioned by the U.S. Congress, are examples, themselves, of state crimes against democracy (SCADs)." “The PATRIOT Act 2001 and, especially, the PATRIOT Act 2006, as “declarations of war” against constitutionalism and the rule of law in the contemporary U.S. body politic, constitute the most conspicuous and destructive SCAD in American history.” “The USA PATRIOT Act 2001 has been compared to Hitler’s Reichstag Fire Decree 1933 (Atwan, 2006, p. 226). It is also necessary to read the USA PATRIOT Acts 2001 and 2006 in conjunction with Stalin’s Article 58, the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (1934; Cunningham, 2000; Solzhenitsyn, 1974, 1997)—the legal code on “counterrevolutionary crimes” and political repression just prior to the “great purge” in Soviet Russia (Applebaum, 2003); doing so makes evident the convergence in rhetoric and legislation in the name of preserving the security of the people. Substitute the word terrorist for counterrevolutionary and a new awareness of potential, political repression dawns.” “With the overwhelming lack of serious dissent over the subversion under U.S. imperial prerogative of Fifth Amendment habeas corpus provisions, or the subversion of First, Fourth, Sixth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendment provisions made possible by PATRIOT legislation and kindred executive initiatives, by which U.S. Presidential authority has claimed the right to spy without cause upon countless American citizens, torture and detain “suspects” without due process, reduce to meaningless the U.S. Congress through “signing statements” claiming presidential prerogative to refuse Congressional mandate to advise and consent? How could such outrages against liberal freedoms meet only timorous dissent from US media? How could such violation of democratic regime values face virtually no consternation from the U.S. Congress?” Matthew T. Witt. “The reaction to the 9/11 attacks, such as the USA PATRIOT Act 1 and 1.1 has done more to destroy the rights of Americans than all of our enemies combined.” Robert M. Bowman. The U.S. far-reaching legislative/legal response revolved around the USA PATRIOT Acts 2001 and 2006, the Homeland Security Act 2002, the Detainee Treatment Act 2005, and the Military Commissions Act 2006. Civil libertarians were mostly concerned with PATRIOT about the following: • Monitoring religious and political institutions to assist terrorism investigations (a violation of the First Amendment right of association). • Secretly detaining people without charge and encouraging bureaucrats to resist freedom of information requests (a violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guaranteeing due process, speedy trials, and freedom of information). • Prosecution of librarians and other keepers of records if they revealed that the government had subpoenaed information related to a terrorist investigation (a violation of the First Amendment right of free speech). • Government monitoring of conversations between prisoners and their legal representatives and the possible denial of access to legal representation (a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to have legal representation). • U.S. citizens being jailed without trial or charges being brought (a violation of the Sixth Amendment). • Section 412 of the USA PATRIOT Act 2001 allows for the indefinite detention of non citizens. The USA PATRIOT Act 2006 gives power to designate U.S. citizens “enemy combatants” for “terrorist” activity carried out in the United States. Section 501 of the PATRIOT Act 2006 allows the revoking of citizenship and secret detention of those suspected of providing “material support” to terrorists (Brzezinski, 2004, p. 68; Marrs, 2006, pp. 303-304). Based on the evils of that Anti-Patriot Act the next are the continued losses for America: • A biological attack “fascism,” whereby any resistance to arbitrary relocation is in violation of law and subject to arrest, fines, and imprisonment. • Refusal to be inoculated is subject to fines and imprisonment. • Federalizing all medical personnel. • Using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as the lead agency under the Department of Homeland Security, to enforce evacuation of cities. • The creation of “displaced persons” camps around the United States. Many such camps are military bases, others are operated by FEMA. FEMA has let a contract for 1,000 “emergency relocation camps” in case of widespread terrorism or biological or chemical attacks on U.S. cities. “The most ominous potential concentration camp is located in Elmendorf AFB, in Alaska, designated to be used as a ‘mental health’ facility. . . . It is our version of Siberia and the Gulag” (Lt. Col. Roberts, cited in Marrs, 2006, p. 274; also see Applebaum, 2003; Kashima, 2003; Tashima, 2007; Thorne & Kouzmin, 2004, pp. 425-426). • Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the law prohibiting the U.S. military from conducting law-enforcement duties against the U.S. public. • Post-9/11, military troops were seen patrolling the streets of Washington and New York, providing glimpses of life under martial law—the prospect of which became less invisible with the 2005 presidential announcement that military troops would be used in the event of a national pandemic (Marrs, 2006, p. 266). Privatized, armed militia was also operating, within hours, of the Hurricane Katrina disaster affecting New Orleans (Scahill, 2007, pp. 323-342). • Regarding detention and torture, citing an FBI account of how Guantanamo Bay prisoners had been treated, Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois has said for the record, “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans have done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe [that] this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their Gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others. (Marrs, 2006, pp. 2, 64; also see Bukovsky, 1978, 2005).” Democratic concerns with the Homeland Security Department included (Marrs, 2006, pp. 281-282) the following: • Negating the Freedom of Information Act 1996 with new and broad exemptions to the act involving threats to infrastructure, national security, and confidential business information. • Exempting advisory committees to Homeland Security from the Federal Advisory Committee Act 1972 passed to ensure openness and accountability. • Silencing whistleblowers protected under the federal Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. • Homeland Security overriding inspector-general investigations. • Insufficient guarantees for abuse of personal privacy and constitutional freedoms. • “Combining domestic and foreign intelligence under Homeland Security would lead to widespread spying on constitutionally-protected political activity” according to legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (Edgar, cited in Marrs, 2006, p. 282). • The listing of names of persons “suspected” of terrorist connections and the creation of “no-fly” lists by some 26 terrorism-related databases from within intelligence and law enforcement agencies. By early 2006, according to Marrs (2006, p. 284), these contained 325,000 names. By November 2007, some 750,000 names and an undisclosed number of U.S. citizens had been carelessly, or with partisan, political malice, added to the list (Americans for Terror Watch List Reform, 2008). • The attempted introduction, in mid-2002, of the Terrorism Information and Prevention System as an expanded national system of citizen spying and reporting—the “snitch culture,” akin to East German Stasi work, Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, and Stalinist citizen reporting requirements of the 1930s through the 1980s. • The availability of powerful intelligence-gathering tools, originally developed to track Soviet spies but now being used to monitor U.S. citizens. Echelon, a global satellite network, intercepts and analyzes phone calls, faxes, and emails sent to, and from, the United States (Kakabadse, Kouzmin & Kakabadse, 2000, p. 10). “Dictionary” software is used for “trigger words.” • As Bowley (2006) accounts, “Using programs with Orwellian names, such as Carnivore, MATRIX, Talon, Eagle Eyes and Total Information Awareness, the [U.S.] Administration is excising an unprecedented level of power over citizen’s lives” (p. 167). Thousands of pages of public documents in the public domain have either been reclassified (Kouzmin et al., 2002) or deleted from the Internet. "While the world watches with bated, hostile breath, the question lingers, can/will PATRIOT legislation be repealed/modified?" |
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| chrisbornag | Feb 14 2011, 06:40 PM Post #4 |
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Three Provisions of the antipatriot "PATRIOT Act" Extension Fails, For Now... http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2196-PATRIOT-Act-Extension-Fails-For-Now * Section 215 of the Patriot Act authorizes the government to obtain “any tangible thing” relevant to a terrorism investigation, even if there is no showing that the “thing” pertains to suspected terrorists or terrorist activities. This provision is contrary to traditional notions of search and seizure, which require the government to show reasonable suspicion or probable cause before undertaking an investigation that infringes upon a person’s privacy. Congress must ensure that things collected with this power have a meaningful nexus to suspected terrorist activity or it should be allowed to expire. * Section 206 of the Patriot Act, also known as “roving John Doe wiretap” provision, permits the government to obtain intelligence surveillance orders that identify neither the person nor the facility to be tapped. This provision is contrary to traditional notions of search and seizure, which require government to state with particularity what it seeks to search or seize. Section 206 should be amended to mirror similar and longstanding criminal laws that permit roving wiretaps, but require the naming of a specific target. Otherwise, it should expire. * Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, or the so-called “Lone Wolf” provision, permits secret intelligence surveillance of non-US persons who are not affiliated with a foreign organization. Such an authorization, granted only in secret courts is subject to abuse and threatens our longtime understandings of the limits of the government’s investigatory powers within the borders of the United States. This provision has never been used and should be allowed to expire outright. |
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