posted May 30, 2000 12:15 PM         

New powers which I see being seized by Gov. with the new law:

1. Outlaws speech which tells someone where drug information can be had by using a link.

2. Outlaws teaching about drugs.

3. Outlaws speech discussing drug making.

4. Authorizes any agent to force your host to close your website.

5. Allows you no hearing about that.

6. Outlaws speech telling where drugs can be bought.

7. Extends the right to search your land without warrant, to include everywhere, including your home, bank, car, etc.

8. Authorizes burglary, tresspassing, breaking and entering, and theft, done secretly by police, or other "agents".

9. Gives mafia gangs operating in various gov. agencies the cloak of official secrecy and immunity from prosecution.

BEGIN EXCERPTS:

"Senate approves police searches and seizures without warrants".

"The United States Congress is on the verge of passing a Republican sponsored bill that would eradicate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution."

"In addition, the bill extends its authority to impede upon the First Amendment Right
of "Freedom of Speech"."

"In effect, what the provision does is empower the Federal Government, State Government and local law enforcement agencies, to enter private property, homes, businesses, automobiles, etc. - for any "criminal searches" without a warrant and without any legal obligation to inform the private property owner that a search and seizure was conducted until months later, if at all. "

"It would grant the Federal Government power to obtain "intangible" evidence -- hard-drive data, photographs or copies made of any documents or family or personal belongings, diaries, etc. - without ever having to inform
the owner that their property was searched. If physical evidence was taken then the government could wait up to 90 days later, before having to notify the owner that a secret search of their property ever occurred."

"The bill was aimed especially at computer hard drives, which could be copied in an
owner’s absence and examined without the owner’s knowledge."

"A SOURCE WITHIN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, SPEAKING ON CONDITION OF
AN0NYMITY, ADMITTED THAT THE LANGUAGE IN THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROVISION "SLIPPED BY EVERYBODY" IN THE SENATE. "(Hatch and the Justice Department) BURIED IT DEEP IN THE BILL, AND NOBODY NOTICED UNTIL THE THING HAD ALREADY PASSED"."

"The Secret Searches measure is so outrageous that it would have no chance of being enacted as a bill on its own, when subjected to public scrutiny and debate," Kopel asserted. "So instead, the DOJ has nestled the Secret Search item deep inside a long bill dealing with methamphetamines"."

"Another approach the bill takes to "curbing" methamphetamine usage is by MAKING IT A CRIME TO CREATE A HYPERTEXT LINK ON THE INTERNET TO ANY SITE THAT "DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ADVERTISES" DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, OR DISTRIBUTES INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESSING OR PURCHASE OF DRUGS."

"Under the provisions of the act, an Internet service provider, who is notified by a district attorney or representative of the Drug Enforcement Agency, that one of their hosted sites is in violation, would be required to remove the site within 48
hours or face federal criminal penalties."

"On top of that, another provision of the bill would make it punishable by up to ten years in prison, "To teach or demonstrate, or to distribute by any means of information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the
manufacture of a controlled substance"."

" "These are not minor changes," Barr added. "These are substantive and far-reaching changes to the criminal law on search and seizure... "."

END EXCERPTS

FOR FULL ARTICLE GO HERE: http://www.ashevilletribune.com/nowarrants.htm

MY COMMENTS:

For a glimpse at our future, substitute explosives, destructive devices, illegal fireworks, or firearms, in the above law wherever it mentions drugs.

This is why I say time is short for gaining knowledge on these subjects.

posted May 30, 2000 10:55 PM            

Public schools and mass media (TV, radio, and print) are conditioning children to think the government and police are their friends and everything they do is for their own good.

As each succeding generation goes into the system, even more freedom is lost because they think that this is the normal way of things.

Bureacracies can wait a person entire lifetime for their plans to come to fruition. So slowly does it creep up on you that by the time you realize it, it's too late.

Imagine if every law they've passed in the last 10 years were drop on the public over night. You'd never have heard a louder scream of "Oppression!" in your life. The contrast between what life was before, and life after, would be very clear then.

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"The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them."