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Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands
MFS! writes "Mount Shasta, California has become the latest city where the USA PATRIOT act is creating a controversy. This story at the Record-Searchlight describes petitioning by a local citizens' rights committee to order police to defy the PATRIOT act. To date, 3 states and 130 cities have passed legislation forbidding local authorities from cooperating with federal PATRIOT requests, not to mention the numerous businesses who are taking pains to hamper the Act's coverage."
How can anyone possibly be against an act thats sole purpose is to protect us from terrorists. What do these people have to hide?
Sadly, your grammar is actually pretty good for a Democrat.
Doesn't the words Anti-Patriot scare the shit out of you?
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
"We" don't make the laws. "They" do with the assumption we actually want them to. Do they ask us? no.
We need to play the knee-jerk public reaction game at least as well as the administration to have hope of fighting them. Calling their unconstitutional act the "Patriot Act" is simply brilliant. Calling efforts to protect the Bill of Rights "Anti-Patriot Act efforts" is so dumb that only a /. editor would do so ;)
Come on. This is not a time for partisan politics. It is a time for unity.
Americans have constantly disobeyed laws they viewed as unjust
No, you're thinking of the Matrix. "We are all here because we have a certain affinity for disobedience."
YOU SUCK BALLS!
How about "I wish this post wasn't funny, but it is."
Horrible, absolutely horrible! How could you taint this issue with petty things like facts?
</sarcasm>
Is not PATRIOT II, as many here seem to think.
It's actually the JINGOISM ACT, proposed as a secret law by Ashcroft. Since secret laws are a provision of the PATRIOT act, you will never hear of the JINGOSIM ACT until after you're arrested.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
That's it I'm going out and making myself some laws!
I run a Debian/Kernel/Knoppix Mirror: (http|ftp|rsync)://debian.ams.sunysb.edu/
apt-get @ > 5MBps == teh win!
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
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However, in 1819, the Supreme Court ruled in McCollough vs. Maryland that federal laws supercede state laws. More information can be found here.
The ruling states
The States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burthen, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into effect the powers vested in the national Government.
Yeah, but remember what happened last time they tried that?
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself. --Billy Bragg
"Ordered the arrest, jailing and deportation of Congressmen"
:-)
This is bad?
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
No kidding. Thank god for the Democrats, I was really impressed with the way they all stood up to Bush and voted against the Patriot Act.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
There is no Statue of Metaldetector framing the Statue of Liberty.