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Headlines : Civil LibertiesThe Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
The bill would also create a “Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States,” on an unspecified University campus. Unlike other Centers of Excellence university-based government research centers created by the Department of Homeland Security, the Center established by this bill could have a chilling effect on political activity on campus because of its specific mission to “assist Federal, State, local and tribal homeland security officials through training, education, and research in preventing violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism,” according to Wilkens.
The bill has been referred to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut). With overwhelming support from the House, it is likely to pass quickly through the Senate.
Also See: ‘Patriot Act Lite’ Could Threaten Civil Liberties, Dissent
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from TruthOut.org
The bill has received little media attention and has almost unanimous support in the House. However, civil liberties groups see the bill as a threat to the constitutionally protected freedoms of expression, privacy and protest.
HR 1955, ‘The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007’, apparently intended to assess “homegrown” terrorism threats and causes is on a fast-track through Congress. Proponents claim the bill would centralize information about the formation of domestic terrorists and would not impinge on constitutional rights.
On October 23, the bill passed the House of Representatives by a 404-6 margin with 23 members not voting. If passed in the Senate and signed into law by George W. Bush, the act would establish a ten-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, to study and propose legislation to address the threat of possible “radicalization” of people legally residing in the US.
Despite being written by a Democrat, the current version of the act would probably set up a Commission dominated by Republicans. By allowing Bush and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to each appoint one member of the Commission, and splitting the appointment of the other eight positions equally between Congressional Democrats and Republicans…
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Long live Osama bin Laden! May his CIA safehouse be forever stocked with liquor and hookers! (If he were still alive that is!)
As long as you don’t have any political views at all, you’ll be safe. Just keep on being obsessed with sports scores and super sales.
Don’t get caught asking for BGH free dairy products. That’s going to be illegal any day now. Just eat what the corporations give you and stfu.
The only positive thing is that with Homeland Security looking at major budget cuts maybe the Thought Police will be another one of those famous unfunded mandates! Yeah right….
good thing we voted in that democratic congress… the appeasement of insanity trumps democracy yet again.
Confessions of a Covert Agent
where in
Robert Gates is charged with personally helping to rig the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 via massive computer fraud (apparently this is taken for granted throughout the US intelligence community) . . .
OPEN QUOTE (the net editor’s note)
the author warns against future elections manipulated via computer fraud. He paints a vivid and disturbing picture of the levels of moral depravity now surging out of the Neocon volcano.
END OF NET EDITOR’S NOTE
The article is taken from the upcoming The Art of Mental Warfare by David Vincent and in that text David Vincent says the following about the above linked article’s anonymous article
OPEN QUOTE
This message comes from an anonymous source believed to be within the US intelligence community. Some of the statements cannot be verified for authenticity, but the general themes and references speak for themselves. I’ve researched everything that is possible to research and it all stands up. I have no reason to believe any of this is untrue. Read it and decide for yourself.
END OF QUOTE
I’ve read it and it looks like a psyop itself. In fact, the “anonymous tipster” may be The Donald himself.
We can see who the old guard doesn’t need to worry about. But the rest of you shouldn’t get too paranoid about what this guy is saying. It’s not like it’s really new to us. And. We’re doing really well.
the most important strategy is to just concentrate on re-engineering the food supply.The government needs to keep its laws off of my body and off of my pipe-bomb assembly line in my garage.
The bill would also create a “Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States,” on an unspecified University campus.
yeah! finally, they have created a place for me to go to continue my uhhh heh hehe studies
hey shifty, looks like its back to skool!
They are fueling the opposition. It might even draw in more militants.
Loose cannons are a liability for everyone, progressist forces being one of the first to cope.
Homegrown? Violent? Totally radical? I think I know who they’re looking for…
How they voted
Funny, you would think Ron Paul would be sure to vote against this rather than abstain.
hurray for politics
Funny, you would think Ron Paul would be sure to vote against this rather than abstain.
Nothing funny about cowardice.
Kucinich is the only presidential candidate of the six with scruples enough to vote against this.
Peace,
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak: Robert Weitzel, writing for Truthout, says, ‘‘HR 1955: the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 recently passed by the House, a companion bill is in the Senate, is barely one sentence old before its Orwellian moment: It begins, ‘AN ACT – To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.’‘’
Corporate world will attempt to include attack on reputation as “damage”. Nice First amendment cases in prospect.
HR 1955, S 1959
PLAIN LANGUAGE: Open an e-mail, download an article, sit down to read your favorite magazine ( not those kinds ), or even to just check the weekly grocery circulars, and if any thing got printed posted, etc that the surveillance/inpection authoirities may even consider to be possibly potntially subsersive, YOU CAN BE IN REALLY DEEP S***!!!
And since it was all passed after the wonderful Military Commissions Act, by the time you realize what`s up, you`ll b picking the lawnmower blades out of your
rear. Sorry. But its true.