- Note: U.S. Government agencies will be able to
seize assets of citizens, 501C3 and other organizations and their members
without ever disclosing the evidence against their property. Government
need only allege that disclosing such evidence may compromise National
security and/or an ongoing investigation.
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- STILL THINK YOUR GOOD OLD BOY IN OFFICE IS
ON YOUR SIDE?
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- This is worse legislation than the Sedition Laws of the
1790's, later declared unconstitutional and leading to the end of John
Adams' presidency. Land of the (formerly) free ??
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- Better contact your senators on this one...
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- Consider these items in the new Senate Terrorist Bill
1510:
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- "MONEY LAUNDERING ABATEMENT AND
ANTI-TERRORIST
FINANCING ACT OF 2001"
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- Political Activists and Demonstrators should Zero in
on S.1510. The bill's provisions can be used to eradicate public dissent
- - and you!
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- Under Senate Bill 1510, now being considered in the
Senate
as an Anti-terrorism act:
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- a.. An entire 501C3 organization or other organization,
including its members, can have their assets seized for supporting bodily
acts or international causes that the U.S. Secretary of State may deem
terrorist activity. Political activities that were legal prior to S.1510
may "RETROACTIVELY" be deemed terrorist activity by U.S.
Government.
Participants and supporters may be charged with terrorist and other
offenses.
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- If you want to read this bill for yourself, go to http://Thomas.loc.gov, to the 107th
Congress,
and Senate Bill 1510.
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- (2). S.1510 "RETROACTIVELY" abolishes the
"Statue
of Limitations" for many past offenses where no one was injured. After
passage of S.1510, any past offense that can be broadly alleged to have
put someone "at risk" may be used by federal and state
prosecutors
to charge a citizen with a terrorist act - even 30 years after the Statute
of Limitations period had already passed. Government will have no
difficulty
manufacturing evidence to prosecute citizens once Constitutional safeguards
against passing Retroactive Laws are abolished after passage of
S.1510.
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- (3) No "innocent owner defense" allowed against
Asset Forfeiture when, after passage of S 1510, U.S. Government agencies
will be able to seize assets of citizens, 501C3 and other organizations
and their members without ever disclosing the evidence against their
property.
Government need only allege that disclosing such evidence may compromise
National security and/or an ongoing investigation. S 1510 provides for
paying "unnamed informants huge rewards" resulting from arrests
and forfeited assets. It is hard to believe any organization or citizen
could ever recover their assets once they are seized by a government agency
in the name of National Security. That may include a citizen's home in
which an informant secretly alleges someone said the wrong thing.
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- (4) "D Below" is from the Senate Bill
1510.
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- So much for trusting attorneys!
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- "(d) UNDERCOVER ACTIVITIES- Notwithstanding
any provision of State law, including disciplinary rules, statutes,
regulations,
constitutional provisions, or case law, a Government attorney may, for
the purpose of enforcing Federal law, provide legal advice, authorization,
concurrence, direction, or supervision on conducting undercover activities,
and any attorney employed as an investigator or other law enforcement agent
by the Department of Justice who is not authorized to represent the United
States in criminal or civil law enforcement litigation or to supervise
such proceedings may participate in such activities, even though such
activities
may require the use of deceit or misrepresentation, where such activities
are consistent with Federal law.
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- (e) ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE-
No violation of any disciplinary, ethical, or professional conduct rule
shall be construed to permit the exclusion of otherwise admissible evidence
in any Federal criminal proceedings".
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- This bill is similar to the one Adolf Hitler pushed
through
the Reichstag after the Reichstag fire in the early 1930's. German Jews,
horrified by the chaos in Germany after the fire, supported Hitler's
legislation
- then found he could (and planned to) use it against them.
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- This is worse legislation than the Sedition Laws of the
1790's, later declared unconstitutional and leading to the end of John
Adams' presidency.
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- Understand! Under the law as now written, you and anyone
connected with any organization - 501(c)(3), church, Rotary, any
organization
- can be snagged under this legislation. Lifting the Statute of
Limitations
means that you could have your home and other assets seized if you were
a member of an organization that supported, for example, Leonard Peltier,
or sent food or medicine to Cuba, or even protested against nukes in the
'60s - and the U.S.G. decided that that organization was then or is now
in any way associated with someone or some organization that is somehow
connected to a "terrorist organization."
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- Of course, it will be said that that is highly unlikely
to happen if you keep your nose clean - and don't give financial or other
support to any suspect organization.
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- There are thousands of people in our prisons now, put
there by the testimony of paid/"rewarded" informers. All it
takes is for some such person to provide "testimony" that the
ACLU or the Sierra Club or Pastors for Peace, or other organization is
"supporting" terrorists. Or maybe some member of such an
organization
does provide support to a terrorist: all members are liable to
imprisonment
and seizure of their assets.
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- Who, under a law like that, is going to give funding
to any 501(c)(3) organization or any other actionist group - even for work
with rehabilitating prisoners or drug addicts, or providing housing for
the poor?
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- If this law passes in this form, kiss protest - by letter
or demonstration - and democracy goodbye!
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- Go to www.senate.gov
and send a note to your Senators and tell them to kill this bastard before
it becomes law. At least to amend the damn thing!
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- And please forward this (or your own) message to EVERYONE
on your e-mail list.
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- May God protect what democracy we have left.
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- Charles
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- P.S. If you want to read this bill for yourself, go
to http://Thomas.loc.gov, to the 107th
Congress, and Senate Bill 1510.
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