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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (266634)	6/25/2002 1:00:04 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I already posted that earlier today about H.R. 896.: Message 17645949 2. Terrorist Fund-Raising Is Whatever the President Decides It Is and Nobody Can Question His Decision Title III of the bill creates a new federal crime of "terrorist fund-raising." The provision would allow the President to define the crime by designating certain groups as terrorist organizations. ...and '3. A New Federal Crime of Terrorism to Be Applied Selectively Based on the Political Motivation of the Offender Section 101 of the bill creates a new federal crime of international terrorism in the United States. Terrorist activity should be a crime. It already is a crime. Section 101 does not criminalize anything that is not already a crime. The new offense is defined as any killing, kidnapping, maiming, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, or assault with a deadly weapon, and any damage to any real or personal property "in violation of the laws of any State or the United States," so long as one of 9 jurisdictional bases is met. Since the new offense does not cover anything that is not already a crime, the main purpose of the proposal seems to be to avoid certain constitutional and statutory protections that would otherwise apply. Investigations of, and prosecutions for, the new crime would be subject to the following special rules: Suspension of posse comitatus. The new subsection (f) provides a wholesale exemption from one of the oldest protections in American law, the separation between military and police functions. At a time when there is growing public concern about the militarization of law enforcement, subsection (f) provides that "Assistance may be requested from any Federal ... agency, including the Army, Navy and Air Force, any statute, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding."