Very simply - Our Congressmen & Senators work for US - the Citizens of U.S.A. - we Vote for them - we give them Money for their Campaigns & we Pay
their Salaries with our Tax Dollars! Just who is coming up with this Gestapo Fascist crap? It's the Justice Department with the Blessing of the Bush
Administration. So all we have to do is review any Drafts & make it known to the Legislative Branch that the Following is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL
VIOLATION & that they better not pass any Law with the Following Language in it OR ELSE!
Drafts of Patriot Act 2/Dometic Security Act have already Leaked onto the Web - that how I know that this following offensive Repugnant crap is in
there:
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a National Database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the database to
*include anyone associated with *suspected terrorist groups* and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as "terrorist."*
These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime and orders State governments to
collect the DNA for the Federal Government.
SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of "*surveillance without a court order*."
SECTION 123 restates that the Government *no longer needs warrants* and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press
reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that
directed against more conventional types of crime."
SECTION 303 sets up National DNA database of suspected "terrorists". The database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will
share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same purposes.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to *use encryption* in the commission of a (So-Called) crime.
Among its most severe problems, the bill:
Diminishes personal privacy by *removing checks on Government Power* specifically by:
A) Making it easier for the Government to initiate surveillance and wiretapping of U.S. citizens under the authority of the shadowy, top-secret
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (Sections 101, 102 and 107)
B) Permitting the Government, under certain circumstances, to bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court altogether and conduct *warrantless
wiretaps and searches*. (Sections 103 and 104)
C) Sheltering federal agents engaged in illegal surveillance without a court order from criminal prosecution if they are following orders of high
Executive Branch officials. (Section 106)
D) Creating a new category of “domestic security surveillance” that permits electronic eavesdropping of entirely domestic activity under looser
standards than are provided for ordinary criminal surveillance under
Title III. (Section 122)
E) Using an ****Overbroad Definition of Terrorism**** that could cover some protest tactics as a new predicate for criminal wiretapping and other
electronic surveillance. (Sections 120 and 121)
F) Providing for general surveillance orders covering multiple functions of high tech devices, and by further expanding pen register and trap and
trace authority for intelligence surveillance of United States Citizens and lawful permanent residents. (Sections 107 and 124)
G) *Creating a new & separate crime of using Encryption Technology* that could add five years to any sentence for crimes committed with a computer.
(Section 404)
H) Expanding nationwide search warrants so they *do not have to meet even the Broad Definition of Terrorism in the USA PATRIOT Act.*
(Section 125)
I) Giving the ***Government secret access to Credit Reports without consent and without judicial process.*** (Section 126)
J) Terminating court-approved limits on police spying, which were initially put in place to prevent ***McCarthy-style law enforcement persecution
based on political or religious affiliation.*** (Section 312)
K) Gagging grand jury witnesses in terrorism cases to bar them from discussing their testimony with the media or the general public, thus preventing
them from defending themselves against rumor-mongering and denying the public information it has a right to receive under the
First Amendment. (Section 206)
*Undermines Fundamental Constitutional Rights of Americans under Overbroad Definitions of “terrorism” and “terrorist organization” or under a
terrorism pretext* specifically by:
L) Stripping even native-born Americans of all of the Rights of United States Citizenship if they provide support to *"unpopular organizations"*
labeled as "*terrorist*" by our Government, even if they support only the lawful activities of such organizations, *allowing them to be indefinitely
imprisoned in their own country as undocumented aliens.* (Section 501)
M) Further Criminalizing Association – without any intent to *commit specific terrorism crimes* – by broadening the crime of providing material
support to "terrorism", even if support is not given to any *organization listed as a terrorist organization by the Government.*
(Section 402)
[edit on 2-3-2005 by Seraphim_Serpente]
[edit on 2-3-2005 by Seraphim_Serpente]
