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Librarians talk about how the USA PATRIOT ACT has affected them - AND YOU
Posted by Renfield on Friday, September 20, 2002 - 11:54 PM 3602 Reads
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From http://commondreams.org/views02/0916-06.htm
Among the less well-known aspects of the Patriot Act are provisions permitting the Justice Department to obtain information secretly from booksellers and librarians about customers' and patrons' reading, Internet and book-buying habits, merely by alleging that the records are relevant to an anti-terrorism investigation. The act prohibits librarians and booksellers from disclosing these subpoenas, so the objects of investigation don't know and therefore cannot defend themselves and their privacy, or contest the government's actions in court.
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AP has a short list of how Freedom has been curtailed
Posted by Renfield on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 10:46 AM 4430 Reads
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Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
By The Associated Press
September 5, 2002, 11:44 AM EDT
Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:
* FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.
* FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.
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Compelling Citizens to subsidize campaigns through fines violates 1st Amendment
Posted by Renfield on Monday, August 05, 2002 - 03:19 PM 1523 Reads
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From the Institute for Justice, August 2002 edition
"By failing to re-feed a parking meter before time ran out, Steve May found himself caught in a wave of “reform” rolling across the country seeking to fund political speech at public expense. As Steve May so aptly demonstrates, there is one big problem with paying for political campaigns with public dollars: citizens are not likely to consent to footing the bill.
Understanding this basic truth, the drafters of Arizona’s so-called “Clean” Elections Act included a dirty little secret, one that could be the harbinger for nationwide public campaign financing efforts. Any time a person in Arizona receives a civil or criminal fine, including any minor traffic citation, a 10-percent surcharge is added to the fine to go directly into the Clean Elections Fund. From there, it is distributed to candidates for state elective offices. The surcharge is the Act’s primary funding source, constituting nearly two-thirds of all monies collected."
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