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To: Tommaso who wrote (258128)	8/29/2003 1:24:43 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 436258

yep

To: Tommaso who wrote (258128)	8/29/2003 2:13:52 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Where have you been? That is not an isolated incident. Message 19225337 Message 19225211

To: Tommaso who wrote (258128)	8/31/2003 10:38:28 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

The original Patriot Act I established, in enacted law and passed in a rush by Congress, all the essentials of the full surveillance state as a pre-cursor to the full-scale internal police state. The Victory Act, introduced on June 27, will apparently be introduced as full-scale legislation in Congress by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) in September. His so-called Victory Act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act) will complete the construction of the American Police State. The American Constitution will then become a past echo. A draft copy of the Victory Act has been posted on the web at libertythink.com: libertythink.com The draft copy is an 89 page (170 kb) PDF file which you can download. In terms of legal fact, the "Victory Act" will amalgamate the earlier (but not passed into legislation) Patriot II Act, which was courageously leaked by an unknown hero/heroine inside the Justice Department, with the war on terror and the wars against narcotics and against money laundering. In that sense, it combines into a triple play by bringing all these "wars" together into one omnibus piece of legislation. The earlier in draft only version Patriot II Act empowered the federal government to conduct secret arrests, to collect DNA samples from anyone suspected of terrorism, and allowed the government to take away an American's citizenship. The June 27 draft of the Victory Act contains similar provisions. Read it when you have some time Tommaso.