Let's try pulling the clowns back from the precipice

[nancylebov]

The third Patriot Act?

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.

http://www.nationalexpositor.com/index.php?news=568

The above was snagged from rinku.

A site for contacting Congress--this was the first one that came up in google. I don't know if there's a better one.

And, "Center of Excellence"? In addition to the frightening power grab, these people are completely tone-deaf.

Mood: weird, but vaguely socially responsible

Comments

[twistedchick]

To contact your Congressperson: http://www.house.gov, look up your representative's page.

To contact your Senator: http://www.senate.gov, look up your senator's page.

At each of the pages there should be links for constitutents to send messages by email, which are reviewed and read and tallied by the Congressperson's/Senator's staff. Originally worded ones get more attention than mass mailings, which tend to be checked over only to get a count of how many there are.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm looking into it further, but I'm not automatically opposed to it.

There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.

Given that this description fits a whole lot of dangerous, heavily armed (and vastly racist) nutcases, including the folks who committed the Oklahoma City bombing. I'm honestly considerably more worried about those people than I am about foreign terrorists.