I) Have I missed anything? Please fill in the blanks.
I am asking that you thoroughly researched, courageous, ethical and smart journalists here please write many articles about these matters.
It' s my own personal feeling that, in particular, the civil liberties and Congressional voting records issues get the least attention not just from the mainstream press, but even from us truth-oriented bloggers. Please help to get these matters on the public radar:
A)Send out chain emails,
B) post to blogs and websites,
C) write letters to the editor, and ask other friends to do the same.
D) As you post to the web about these subjects, please ask any readers to write their own articles about them too. Word will spread and more journalists will get on board.
Then, finally, it's the hundredth monkey.
Thank you! PS links about civil liberties violations, below:
This link is the best one, in my opinion, to show people how it is ordinary citizens and not big fish in the pond are being affected by the civil liberties crack-down. Imagine...bird watchers and do-good-ers being queried as "terrorists" by the FBI, on a repeated basis? Imagine...being shackled and jailed for purely racial reasons?
Please read this, pass it on and please ask journalists to cover the issues: Note who is affected and how. So important. Thank you!!
"Since when did feeding the homeless become a terrorist activity?" asked ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson. "When the FBI and local law enforcement target groups like Food Not Bombs under the guise of fighting terrorism, many Americans who oppose government policies will be discouraged from speaking out and exercising their rights."
"My National Security Gag Order" is a true story written in the Washington Post by a receipient of a National Security Letter (NSL) carrying a gag order with a penalty of five years in jail for telling. The country: Post-11 USA.
the ACLU's summary of who is being spied on (which cultural cross-sectors, such as environmental groups, religious and peace groups, etc)
Examples of California free speech/free association violations on ACLU National's website
Info about the ACLU free speech forum which was just held in September '07, including 25 page report
An actual declassified FBI document showing the FBI investigation of the Thomas Merton Peace Center, as represented by the ACLU. The religious profiling is of note.
This summarizes the ACLU's attempts (most of them stonewalled) to get information about the spying of the FBI on peaceful activist groups and religious groups. It also lists who they are, what the ACLU has done, evidence they managed to get in spite of stonewalling, etc.
This link takes you to the ACLU's statement that they, as an organization, are being spied on (more than a thousand FBI pages about the ACLU), as are other groups.
There is another FBI document shown on the ACLU's website, which was almost entirely blacked out by the FBI prior to being released. I couldn't find it when I searched the site: Maybe one of you can find it. I went to the "Search" box and entered FBI documents. It's interesting to see and shows, in living color, the attempts of this Administration to stonewall.
It's interesting to see what conservatives have to say about this, and read the legal analysis. Note how Gun Owners of America, the ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Common Cause, People for the AMerican Way and more all agree in their analyses of the Patriot Act. SEE ALSO AND NOTE HOW ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS AGREE IN THEIR ANALYSES OF THE PATRIOT ACT: www.eff.org, www.centerforconstitutionalrights.com, www.aclu.org (enter Patriot Act Fact List into the search box), etc... I heard that Bush tried to sneak through Patriot II into other bills, in little chopped-up pieces, because even this fascist Congress would not approve the bill. Anyone have specific information about this, and which portions of the bill were inadvertently passed into law?
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This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism:
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul (
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