To: Roads End who wrote (294690 ) 12/1/2010 11:04:38 AM From: Giordano Bruno Respond to of 306849 According to The National Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which encourages local communities to take an active role in the ongoing national debate about threats to civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, such as the USA PATRIOT , three states--Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont--plus more than 140 cities and counties have approved resolutions condemning the act. The movement seems to be gathering steam--65 of those resolutions have been approved since April 1. Resolutions against the act have passed in liberal college towns such as Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , in larger cities such as Philadelphia, and even in traditionally conservative cities like Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm . In Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. , the public library director purges records of all returned books each day and erases the list of Web sites visited on the library's 50 Internet terminals. Officials in Portland, Oregon, have declined to cooperate with federal agents who may serve warrants that can remain secret under the PATRIOT Act. The Arcata, California, city council passed an ordinance in April barring city workers from enforcing the act. From 2003thefreelibrary.com