Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act-S 1959

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	Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act-S 1959

thinkingblue

1-7-2008 5:16 PM

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thinkingblue says:

From: http://betterbadnews.com/
Online policing of politically unreliable web sites (Senate Bill S-1959) will bring to the US internet what Yahoo has already brought to China: Internet related censorship services and jailed dissidents. Why is the internet tech community so quiet about this issue?

The bill, (S-1959) misleadingly called the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization act of 2007 is a thought crime bill. The bill was passed in the house under a curious suspension of the rules usually reserved for non controversial issues like the naming of a post office.
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This doesn't sound good to me... Who is to decide whether your belief system is radical or not... Scary Stuff!!! Please sign the petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html

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Terrorism Prevention Act, HR. 1955 / S. 1959. This legislation does not 
criminalize conduct, but may well lead to criminalizing ideas or beliefs in 
violation of the First Amendment. By targeting the Internet, it may result in 
increased surveillance of Internet communications in violation of the Fourth 
Amendment. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html">It defines "violent radicalism" as "adopting or promoting an extremist belief 
system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance 
political, religious, or social change." The term "extremist belief system" is 
not defined. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html">"Ideologically based violence" </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html">If a group of people blocked the doorway of a corporation that manufactured 
weapons, or blocked a sidewalk during a demonstration, it might constitute the 
use of "force" to promote "political beliefs." <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html">We the undersigned strongly urge the Senate to refuse to pass S. 1959, </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FC85601-279A-41DA-8A17-BD58224484AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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