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Thursday, January 19, 2006
ACLU Attorney to Discuss Patriot Act at Tonight's County Dem Meeting
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF BERNALILLO COUNTY
THIRD THURSDAY MEETING
UNM LAW SCHOOL, ROOM 2401
1117 STANFORD DR. NE, ABQ
JANUARY 19, 6 PM. ALL ARE INVITED.
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The Third Thursday Meeting of the DPBC will feature George Bach, Staff Attorney, ACLU of New Mexico, who will discuss the Patriot Act in a talk entitled, “Safe and Free? An Update on the USA Patriot Act.”
January 19, 2006 at 10:47 AM in Democratic Party, Events | Permalink
Comments
What good does it do to have someone speaking to the choir on this? Any Dem worth his or her salt already knows how terrible this Act is in terms of civil liberties. What we need is some passionate action on the part of Dems in the U.S. House and Senate to bare the abuses and crack down on them. We need reasoned outreach to citizens who don't understand the dangers. What we don't need is another talk about this to people who already know the score.
Posted by: JLC | Jan 19, 2006 12:07:06 PM
Amen to that.
Posted by: rich | Jan 19, 2006 12:25:31 PM
Everyone needs to know about this provision in the wronly named Patriot Act, which should be called the US Fascist Act. SEC. 605. THE UNIFORMED DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE. "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'"
` "(B) make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony;" To quote Paul Craig Roberts, @ Antiwar.com "The obvious purpose of the act is to prevent demonstrations at Bush/Cheney events. However, nothing in the language limits the police powers from being used only in this way.
Posted by: VP | Jan 25, 2006 5:23:24 PM
