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Updated Oct 29 2003
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9-11's Endangerment of Civil Liberties
-Legislation related to the attack of September 11,2001
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Joint memorials in the New Mexico House and Senate are set to challenge federal actions
that violate or infringe on constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
Senator Cisco McSorley in the NM Senate has introduced Senate Joint Memorial 4 (SJM4),
"AFFIRMING CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES AND DECLARING OPPOSITION TO FEDERAL MEASURES THAT INFRINGE ON CIVIL LIBERTIES".
The same memorial
almost passed the Legislature last spring session, passing the House 53-11 but tabled in the final hours of the Senate.
The joint memorial
will join those of Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont as well as more than 200 cities and counties, in supporting and defending the Bill of Rights from federal encroachment.
In New Mexico, the City of Santa Fe passed a Resolution In Support of the Bill of Rights on October 30, 2002, while communities around the state, including
Albuquerque, Aztec, Farmington, Grant County, Las Vegas, Soccoro, and Taos have recently passed resolutions protesting the infringement of our constitutional freedoms by the USA Patriot Act and abuses by John Ashcrofts' Department of Justice.
Constitutional scholars and public watchdog groups on both left and right claim that federal legislation, presidential Executive Orders, and FBI edicts since 9-11 violate many of the amendments to the Constitution contained in the Bill of Rights. For instance, the USA PATRIOT Act, passed in October 2001,
Additional proposals by the Bush administration have included plans for organized spying by mailmen, cable installers, and service people (the TIPS program); creation of a dossier on every American with complete personal, medical, financial, communications and other data (TIA, the Total Information Awareness program); and reconfiguration of the internet for ease of surveillance, allowing direct monitoring of all internet and email communications without the need for a warrant.
Plans to extend the USA PATRIOT Act in the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003"
were leaked from the Justice Department February 7. The new Act would remove judicial oversight on phone taps and search warrants, allow police spying on American citizens and groups, and in some cases strip Americans of their citizenship and rights. Critics of the plan charge that trampling the Constitution is not necessary to national security. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, top Democrat on the U. S. House Judiciary Committee, said the legislation "turns the Bill of Rights completely on its head."
To support these memorials, please do the following:
Freedom And Security? : How A Hayekian Fights Terror The free world can remain so only if governments separate terrorism from crime and limit as well as empower their police forces, says KONRAD HUMMLER.
Judge Rules "Unconstitutional" Key Provisions A judge has ruled that key aspects of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional.
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
Civil Liberties and National Security
No Due Process For Enemy Combatants
Paying for security with liberty
- Michael Ignatieff
Lawyer's Committee on Civil Rights - After September 11th
Organizational statements and letters regarding the USA Patriot Act, the detention of non-citizens, military tribunals, and the FBI's new powers.
Observer Liberty Watch campaign Documents the negative impact of 9-11 on British civil liberties
Anti-Terror Legislation So Far by About.com. Reviews the USA Patriot Act and other anti-terrorist legislation.
Turning your back on Leader Bush is now illegal
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Ohio State's graduating class told they would be expelled if they turned their back on Bush in protest...'thundering ovation' expected instead
U.S. citizen in military prison indefinitely - without benefit of lawyer or trial
-- ...despite fact that Deputy of Defense says: "I don't think there was actually a plot beyond some fairly loose talk."
U.S. introduces laws that 'mirror the worst excesses of some dictatorships'
The might of corporations undermines democracy
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MEMORIAL(SJM4) on Senate Floor Wednesday, Oct 29 Please call your Senator NOW, for contact info,see http://legis.state.nm.us/senate.asp
Compilation on
Civil Liberties
Cities around the country and across New Mexico are passing Resolutions supporting the Bill of Rights! 186 (as of Oct 11, 2003) U.S. cities have passed resolutions; hundreds of other communities cities have them in process. Here in New Mexico, Santa Fe passed A Resolution In Support of the Bill of Rights on October 30, 2002. Citizens throughout the state, whether Democrat or Republican, have successfully passed resolutions that uphold our fundamental, and constitutionally guaranteed, freedoms. Won't you join us? Read these pages, or email democracy@global-dialog.org to find out how you can participate.
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