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Ashcroft wants to extend the powers of PATRIOT
_POSTEDON Jun 06, 2003 - 03:01 PM |
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 Mr. Ashcroft is beginning to rumble about a new bill that will grant him even more powers than PATRIOT. This is not a surprise, despite his overwhelming success at gathering support for the original bill.
A friend of mine had this to say:
Mark my words, though, this is the second prong of the three pronged initiative:
prong one: control all three branches of the government
prong two: quell with extreme prejudice the rights of citizens to protest by removing their access to due process, paving the road for political prisoners, like there used to be in South Africa. Sure, now its "suspected" terrorists, but how long until its anyone who disagrees with the administration? without access to legal counsel, the outside world and being held indefinitely and executed without trial, the US will have the ability to "disappear" citizens who are vocally antiadministration, and there won't be any way to prevent it since it will all be done in secret, with no protections.
prong three: rubber stamp the middle east, and then the world, in the US image. with prongs one and two in place, prong three will proceed without interference.
I know I'm extrapolating a bit, but you have to admit, everything is heading in this direction.
My response is thus:
slow down, cowboy.
Let's not make up conspiracy theories.
Let's go on what we've seen, what we think it violates, and what we want reversed.
We've seen that lawyer-client communications, once thought inviolable, is now monitored by the Feds.
We've seen that citizens in America, in non-military situations, have been labelled enemy combatants and stripped of their rights.
We've seen that our Government would prefer to lock people up indefinitely rather than adjudicate innocence or guilt, in a country where the very foundation of our system is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
We've seen that in a country where we would rather let a guilty man go free than imprison an innocent, our Government has given in to fear, and would rather lock up anyone that scares them.
Certainly, on this last point, there are plenty of people, citizens and government alike, that will say,
"But we have to, to avoid another catastrophe!" - The truth is, no we don't. We have to accept that another incident can happen, and that we value freedom and justice more. That one person wrongly detained for longer than 48 hours, and one innocent person imprisoned while guilty people go free, is so repugnant to us, that the current law cannot stand.
For either the law falls, or American justice and Freedom fall. Take your pick, there is no in-between, no balance- Freedom and justice are what make American ideals worth having.
Patrick Henry heard the chains of tyranny rattling- do you?
Mike Hawash does- ( http://freemikehawash.org ) Mike is an Intel employee, who is charged with the Federal Crime of Guilt By Association. Mike's lucky- he at least has been charged. I began this post by asking Lerk to slow down, and back away from the conspiracy theories. I realize that someone else may well ask me to do the same- but I'm going on what we've seen and can document within our country, and not predicting the future.
Let's undo the damage we've seen done before we go off half-cocked on future assaults on the Freedom that makes America great.
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