Patriot II's Attack on Citizenship cnn.com
Ashcroft Out of Control - Ominous Sequel to USA PATRIOT Act truthout.org "Under the proposed Ashcroft bill... for the first time in U.S. history, secret arrests will be specifically permitted. That section of bill is flatly titled: "Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism Investigation Detainee Information." In Argentina, those secretly taken away were known as 'the disappeared'. "
"Peace" T-Shirt Gets Man Arrested (Incl. Photo of Shirt) cnn.com
T-Shirt, Web Site Spark Challenges to US Rights cnn.com
Busted for Peace - When Cops Play Soldier, Protesters Become the Enemy truthout.org
Hollywood Actors Raise McCarthyism Specter [Parts of article have been awkwardly deleted.] au.news.yahoo.com
Santa Fe Police Arrest Attorney for Comments He Made in an Internet Chat-Room ["Bush is out of control."] informationclearinghouse.info [Comment: "Arrest Me", Wm. Rivers Pitt truthout.org ]
Recent Oregon Ruling... May Set Troublesome Precedent writ.news.findlaw.com "This is a very troubling development. Unless the ruling is reversed on appeal, it will mean that a U.S. citizen can now be convicted of a crime, without ever knowing the reasons why the government was given permission to spy on them in the first place."
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Took Names at Peace Rally tennessean.com
Library Restrictions Borrow from Colonial-Era Abuses usatoday.com "Spying on readers. FBI agents currently are going into libraries and bookstores to demand records of materials that individuals borrowed or bought. The source of their new authority is the USA Patriot Act, which Congress rushed through in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. ... In an effort to ease the tracking of potential terrorists, it also lifts valuable restraints that had protected law-abiding citizens from government snooping. ... For example, authorities no longer have to show evidence to a judge that the target of their search is a foreign agent or suspected terrorist. Nor do they have to show a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, much less the "probable cause" required by the Fourth Amendment. Judges have little discretion to block fishing expeditions. What's more, libraries and bookstores are prohibited from disclosing the searches to anyone, which deprives innocent citizens of the right to challenge illegitimate inquiries.
Large Groups Barred from Protesting Near White House [March 7] wjla.com
"Chief Teresa Chambers says groups larger than 25 will not be allowed in Lafayette Park. They will have to apply for a permit and will be monitored by officers using a helicopter and closed-circuit TV cameras." AND
Authors Arrested In War Protest At White House [March 8] asia.reuters.com "Acclaimed authors Alice Walker and Maxine Hong Kingston were among a group of 23 women arrested in front of the White House on Saturday. [...] A spokesman for the U.S. Park Police confirmed that about 25 people had been arrested on the sidewalk in front of the White House..."
Camps for US Citizens? Ashcroft's Hellish Vision informationclearinghouse.info
FEMA Plans to Move Residents of Towns, Cities fourwinds10.com "The agency announced June 19 it was receiving bids of $300 million for a five-year contract to prepare preliminary plans to create temporary housing for hundreds of thousands of Americans who would be moved in the event of "multiple mass destruction attacks" on U.S. cities. [...] Previous presidents have signed individual EOs granting FEMA specific powers to control the distribution of food and fuel, the traffic on American railways and inland waterways and air travel. It also now has the authority to detain countless Americans. [...] FEMA would play a key role in the projected efforts from the new Homeland Security Act being ram-rodded through the Congress by the Bush administration, which gives the government extraordinary new powers that drastically curtail civil rights under the Constitution."
US Admits Afghan Suspects Died During "Interrogation" rense.com and
Some Guantanamo "Terror" Suspects Trying Suicide rense.com
[Something to seriously think about, now that the fed'l govn't has power to arbitrarily detain US CITIZENS and deny their Constitututional rights, once protected by the Bill of Rights, such as right to be secure against unreasonable searches without warrants, right to know charges, right to an attorney, right to invoke Fifth Amendment...]
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and a terrible master." - George Washington
"The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals." - John C. Calhoun |
