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."

Comments

Wake up

[CausticWindow]

Doesn't the words Anti-Patriot scare the shit out of you?

Re:Wake up - not just funny; true

[slithytove]

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 ;)

Re:Theme of American history?

[deadsaijinx*]

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."

The successor of the PATRIOT ACT

[CausticWindow]

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.

Re:federal vs. state.

[SenorMooCow]

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!

Relevant Ammendment and Supreme Court Case

[p_trekkie]

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.

Re:federal vs. state.

[shadowbearer]

"Ordered the arrest, jailing and deportation of Congressmen"

This is bad? :-)

SB