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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (29218)1/28/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: Father Terrence   of 108807
 
Janet Reno's Department of Justice (DOJ) is shopping around a
legislative "wish list" to further erode our constitutional
liberties. They are hoping to take advantage of the chaotic
situation in Washington to "load up" an appropriations bill
with a number of frightening expansions of federal power:

* Enlarged asset forfeiture provisions to allow the FBI to
seize personal property in both criminal and civil matters

* A vastly expanded definition of terrorism to include
domestic crimes having no relationship to terrorism

* The ability to commandeer personnel from other federal
agencies without reimbursement

* Authority to force telephone and Internet companies to
divulge information on their customers without a warrant
(someone posts a message threatening the President and the
feds demand the names and addresses of everyone who received the offending message)

* Expanded wiretap authority to allow "roving" wiretaps of
innocent citizens and gun owners, and wiretaps without any
court authority whatsoever (so much for the Fourth
Amendment)

* Loosening of Posse Comitatus restrictions to allow more
military involvement in domestic law enforcement
(further blurring the line between police and military,
which means destroying targets rather than making arrests)

* The establishment of a permanent "FBI Police Force" (one
could only speculate as to how bad this would be)

* The power to seize commercial transportation assets for
federal use (like the rest of the wish list, there is
zero constitutional authority for this).

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