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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. Re:federal vs. state. by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oregon has an assisted suicide law that was approved by voters twice. Ashcroft decided it should be illegal, and declared that the lethal drugs Oregon doctors can prescribe (under very limited circumstances, of course) serve no legitimate medical purpose and therefore were controlled substances, and instructed the DEA to arrest doctors who prescribed the drugs. It went to the Supreme Court and Ashcroft lost.

    One of Oregon's senators - Gordon Smith I think - said he opposes this state law, but he fought for Oregon's right to have it.

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