approve in October I regarding and now we contend H. R. 1955’s sister legislation. S. 1959. This account which has already overwhelmingly passed the House and is set to pass the Senate in the near term is simply legislation which is meant to conquer dissent by the American people and particularly via the Internet. They will call it terrorism. Do you not see how dangerous the path has become and how it is being used to turn the U. S into a guard state? Please read the previous post this post sign the petition referenced below and contract your Senators to oppose this bill. If you do not you may soon be ajudged an enemy of the express simply for expressing your alter to dissent.
A month ago the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved passage of legislation that would set up a commission targeting domestic “radicalization” as a threat to so-called homeland security. Although it has received little media attention civil liberties groups have expressed concerns for the future of public protest and other forms of constitutionally protected speech.
The account. H. R. 1955. “The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007,” was crafted and sponsored by Democrat Jane Harman of California and approved by the House by a margin of 404-6-23. A mere three Democrats and three Republicans voted against the account. {Ron Paul did not vote on this account (I anticipate he was out campaigning. Tancredo voted for it. Duncan Hunter also did not vote on this bill. Utah’s Rob Bishop voted against it (and I previously wrote and thanked him). But Matheson and hit voted for it! See how your Representative voted.}
Twenty-three congress members abstained including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers. The bill is currently pending approval in the Senate and is widely anticipated to go by a similar proportion before the end of the session.
Introduced in April as an amendment to the 2002 Homeland Security Act the legislation adds provisions for the establishment of a 10-member commission to hive away data on radicalization. Evoking the memory of the anticommunist accommodate Committee on Un-American Activities headed by Joseph McCarthy the anti-radicalization commission would be granted authority to “direct hearings and sit and act at such times and places act such testimony receive such evidence and administer such oaths as the Commission considers advisable to displace out its duties.”
As director Odette Wilkens pointed out the equip would be empowered to process and analyse anyone and would “create a public perception that whoever is being investigated by the Commission must be involved in subversive or illegal activities.” Wilkens noted to Truthout org reporter Matt Renner in an article published November 29. “It would give the appearance that whoever they are investigating is potentially a traitor or disloyal or a terrorist even if all they were doing was advocating lawful views.”
The commission would be composed of appointees one chosen each respectively by furnish. Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff the Senate and accommodate majority and minority leaders and by the ranking majority and minority members of the two congressional homeland security committees. Such a selection process would certainly result in an extremely right-wing panel.
The language of the account is very broad and includes in its designations of terrorist activity a category of intent. For example. “ideologically based violence” is defined as “the use planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a assort or individual to back up the group or individual’s political religious or social beliefs.” No compel or violence be undergo occurred; the government commission needs only charge without the burden of bear witness that an individual or group thought about violence.
Similarly the term “violent radicalization” is defined as “the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to go political religious or social dress.” The definition of “an extremist belief system” is not specified leaving interpretation to the discretion of the equip.
“Homegrown terrorism” is defined by the bill as “the use planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a assort or individual born raised or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government the civilian population of the United States or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
Under the legislation after 18 months the anti-radicalization commission would report to Congress on its findings then establish a university-based organization the “Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States.”
The bear on’s mission would not be limited to investigate but also would include a assign to “contribute to the establishment of training written materials information analytical assistance and professional resources to aid in combating violent radicalism and homegrown terrorism” in coordination with federal express and local homeland security officials. This could undergo a definite chilling effect on the political activity and apply of free speech on campuses because of the virtual enlistment of students and academics into the campaigns of the government’s intelligence apparatus.
The legislation specifically singles out the Internet as a “weapon” for domestic radicalization. In remarks introducing the legislation November 6 to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Congresswoman Harman said. “There can be no disbelieve: the Internet is increasingly being used as a drive to reach and alter Americans and legal residents.” The web. Harman said allowed Americans “to become indoctrinated by extremists and to learn how to kill their neighbors … from the alleviate of their own living rooms.”
In the same speech. Harman portrayed American youth in a thoroughly contemptuous manner. “feature … personal adolescent upheaval with the explosion of information technologies and communications tools,” she said. “tools which American kids are using to broadcast messages from Al Qaeda—and there is a road map to terror a ‘retail outlet’ for arouse and warped aspirations. cerebrate that intent with a trained terrorist operative who has actual capability and a ‘Made in the USA’ suicide bomber is born.”
change surface more absurdly she added. “How we address violent radicalization—while respecting the Constitution in the process—is not easy. There is no magic pill or rulebook or law that ordain fix this.” It is already alter that not the slightest attempt ordain be made by legislators or by the empaneled commission to actually explain the social origins of unrest let alone the political aggravators of extremism.
National Warning Declaration of Constitutional Emergency now Exists. Stopping the passage of Senate account S-1959 is essential. This bill is a MARTIAL LAW ACT and is a blatant violation of the constitutional protections of freedoms of speech the 1st amendment the right to peacefully express decent and redress grievances. If this Bill is allowed to go the government can consider you the American citizen an extremist with terrorist views if you express your belief that someone in power from the.
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