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silversoul7
Chill the FuckOut!


Registered: 10/11/02
Posts: 27,301
Loc: mndfreeze's puppet army
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Stop the Expanded Use of Secret Searches
#2106788 - 11/14/03 11:56 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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From: Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU To: ACLU Action Network Members Date: November 13, 2003
Congress is very close to giving government law enforcement agents even broader powers to force businesses to turn over sensitive private information about their customers without any judicial review.
Part of a little-noticed provision that is pending before a conference committee, the expanded powers would allow the government to access your travel records, car purchases, stock trades or other purchases and stop you from finding out that these records have been searched. The government could undertake these searches for loosely defined "national security" purposes even if it has no reasonable suspicion that you were involved in a crime.
Take action! Congress needs to ensure that there is proper judicial oversight over government investigations!
Click here for more information and to send a free fax to your Members of Congress:
http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=14370&c=111
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Le_Canard
The Duk Abides

Registered: 05/17/03
Posts: 94,392
Loc: Earthfarm 1
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Re: Stop the Expanded Use of Secret Searches [Re: silversoul7]
#2108704 - 11/15/03 05:31 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Bill of Rights takes yet another hit.  When will this stop? The so-called "Patriot Act" is anything but! Here's a rundown of this abominable act: "The USA Patriot Act: Treason Masquerade"
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PsiloKitten
Ganja Goddess

Registered: 02/13/99
Posts: 1,617
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Re: Stop the Expanded Use of Secret Searches [Re: silversoul7]
#2109400 - 11/16/03 12:24 AM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is all just such wacky shit that sometimes I think Im living in a dream.
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ZippoZ
Knomadic


Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
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Re: Stop the Expanded Use of Secret Searches [Re: PsiloKitten]
#2115466 - 11/17/03 04:07 PM (19 years, 2 months ago) |
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if only we were living in a dream we might be able to wake from this mess
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"
"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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