| Martial Law [message #104297] |
Mon, 26 July 2004 16:06   |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Registered: November 2003
Karma:
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| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 201. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism.
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The FBI gets to wiretap whatever they want as long as they're running a terrorism investigation.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 202. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.
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The FBI gets to wiretap whatever they want as long as they're running a computer investigation.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 207. Duration of FISA surveillance of non-United States persons who are agents of a foreign power.
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Survey non-US citizens all we want.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 209. Seizure of voice-mail messages pursuant to warrants.
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More tapping of otherwise private communications.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 219. Single-jurisdiction search warrants for terrorism.
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Instead of the good 'ole search warrants where the police get access to break into someone's house during said hour of said day, now the police can get a warrant to break in to anything the suspect owns any time they want to. It sounds like a good idea for fighting crime, but it's actually a horrendous idea when you're one of the many people who are guilty and get searched.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 225. Immunity for compliance with FISA wiretap.
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Yay! Wiretap immunity!
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 412. Mandatory detention of suspected terrorists; habeas corpus; judicial review.
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Let's put people in jail and not give them a lawyer!
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 416. Foreign student monitoring program
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Spying on foreign exchange students.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 501. Attorney General's authority to pay rewards to combat terrorism.
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Remember back during the Cold War where we trained people like Osama to fight the Communists? Yeah, it's kind of like that. We also gave Iraq and other such places money and guns to say they didn't like communism.
| The U.S. Patriot Act |
Sec. 502. Secretary of State's authority to pay rewards.
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Remember back during the Cold War where we trained people like Osama to fight the Communists? Yeah, it's kind of like that. We also gave Iraq and other such places money and guns to say they didn't like communism.
| Section 412 of the U.S. Patriot Act |
`(6) LIMITATION ON INDEFINITE DETENTION- An alien detained solely under paragraph (1) who has not been removed under section 241(a)(1)(A), and whose removal is unlikely in the reasonably foreseeable future, may be detained for additional periods of up to six months only if the release of the alien will threaten the national security of the United States or the safety of the community or any person.
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We get to hold people in jail without a lawyer!
By the way, I got all of this stuff from http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html where I located a copy of the U.S. Patriot Act, and I located the site of Google.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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