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Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the behold-the-swinging-pendulum dept.

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."

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  1. Wake up by CausticWindow · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. The successor of the PATRIOT ACT by CausticWindow · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:federal vs. state. by SenorMooCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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