Here come the thought police
With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s (D-CA) “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain.
Not since the “Patriot Act” of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams’ suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn’t trust. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence not only proclaimed the right to dissent but declared it a people’s duty, under certain conditions, to alter or abolish their government.
In that vein, diverse groups vigorously oppose Ms. Harman’s effort to stifle dissent. Unfortunately, the mainstream press and leading presidential candidates remain silent.
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This Country is going in a Very Very Bad Direction!!!
Open-Letter to Congressman Joe Baca of California’s 43rd District
Topic: How could you vote yes on H.R. 1955?
Message: Doesn’t anyone in congress believe in the Constitution any more? Believe it or not, you have Constituents, not just corporations. You voted yes on H.R. 1955 the most Anti-Constitutional, Anti-American bill I have ever read. Don’t you even read what you vote on before you vote? Is everyone in Washington so paranoid they are jumping at shadows, or have the corporations already shredded the Constitution? The War on Terror shouldn’t be a war against the American people.
sent: November 20,2007 @ 17:29 pst
All Americans will be declared “Terrorists”. The War on Terror is the war against the people.
Why are we just hearing about this now? This is the craziest thing I’ve ever read !! I’d fit right into their mold !! What a bunch of paranoid ass holes we have in congress !! They must still believe some supernatural terrorist brought down the WTC, yea right !!