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HR1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007: Contact Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
From Ryan:
EUREKA!!!!!
I don’t know how many of you read my (below) email last week regarding HR1955 or also affectionately known and the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. However, as HR1955 was passed in the House (ERGH!!) and sent to the Senate who then sent it to the Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to review, I mentioned that the next step would be to find the members of the Senate Committee and contact them to voice our…disapproval of this bill; specifically those whose Senators and House Reps were on said committee.
I have found the list. Below is a copy of all Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs members. If they are your representatives PLEASE contact them, let them know you understand they are reviewing HR155/S1959 and that you WHOLE-HEARTEDLY DISAPPROVE!!!! Letters, faxes, emails and calls. No contact is too little!!!
If you are a resident of these states PLEASE contact your below senator(s) and voice your disapproval.
Connecticut, Maine, Hawaii, Delaware, Oklahoma, Minnesota, New Mexico, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Alaska, New Hampshire, Montana, Ohio, Virginia
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Members
Chairman
If you have the emails for others who may be in these states or can get this information to others in these states please forward this to them. Everyone should let these senators know we disapprove but the residents of these senators’ states will be more loudly heard. Thanks for all the help everyone. We can still win this one!!!
Viva la r3VOlution!
Ryan Hile
Email: Ryan@KeepThemSmiling.com
From: Ryan Hile
[mailto:ryan@keepthemsmiling.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:50
AM
To: 'ronpaul-48@meetup.com'
Subject: HR 1955 Update
If it makes anyone feel any better:
I have been up to my ears in H.R.1955 for the last two days. I literally have to be told to take breaks because I loose track of time. lol
However, while HR1955 has indeed passed
the House vote with (as I understand it) 404 Y, and only 6 N’s (I bet you
can guess one of those N’s) it has yet to go any further. It has not been
voted on by the Senate or reviewed by the President. It is still an extremely dangerous piece of legislature
but I hope knowing it’s only in it’s baby phase will give you the
little piece of mind it gave me. http://www.opencongress.org
The Bill was amended and is known as
S.1959 in the Senate. Very little has happened there too. It was read twice in
the Senate but that’s it. No vote was taken. It was referred to the Senate Committee of Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs and has remained there since August of 2007. This
should be taken as a sign of hope. We still have time to make our voice
heard BEFORE the bill is passed.
Because I’m sure we all are becoming aware of how difficult it can be to
Repeal a Bill/Act. http://www.opencongress.org
As per the little charts on those two websites, it is my conclusion that neither HR1955 nor S1959 are able to be passed without first being voted on by both Congressional parties. To recap:
HR1955: Passed in House but not Senate
S1959: No vote was cast in either House or Senate and is now stuck in Committee of Homeland Security.
I contacted Florida Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez yesterday with minimal results. I wanted to know if the vote was being put to the Senate anytime soon. If we can get our calls and emails and letters and faxes going BEFORE they vote I think it would go a long way. (At least I hope.) The woman I spoke with at Nelson’s office knew very little.
If someone can help me locate a list of the Senate Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs members I would greatly appreciate it. Our next step then, would be to ascertain if our Senators are indeed part of that Committee and start emailing/faxing/calling/etc. the crap out of them. If they are not, we then make it a point to gather contact information for said members and get that info to the states whose Senators are Committee members.
WE CAN STOP THIS ONE!!!! We just need a little team effort!
Are you with me?
From: ronpaul-48@meetup.com [mailto:ronpaul-48@meetup.com]
On Behalf Of Dan Tucker
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:53
AM
To: ronpaul-48@meetup.com
Subject: [ronpaul-48] Fwd: DO NOT
DELETE...FORWARD TO ENDS OF EARTH...GOD BLESS PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS!
These message is based on the damages HR 1955 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act." will cause on our Nation. I brought this up last November at the UNITY Rally and it is still in the news. Beware of those we send to Congress, some are very dangerous people. I see 406 that need to be replaced.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: Virginia Brooks
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:24 PM
Subject: DO NOT DELETE...FORWARD TO ENDS OF EARTH...GOD BLESS PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS!
Somehow I missed this fabulous article "Thinking For Yourself is Now a Crime" by Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at:
Just shows how some of the best stuff being written escapes ones attention.
Excerpt:
The bill passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is
sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins and apparently faces no
meaningful opposition.
Harman's bill is called the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act."When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a
commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas.
The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and
compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short,
create massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators of
terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents
and fellow citizens.
Do not stop here. Read every word. But even more important, believe every word. And do something, do anything, but do something!
I hope our country can pull out of this tragic situation, with God's assistance. However,why would the Good Lord make an effort for a country whose leaders and most of the population seem hell-bent on ignoring His word?
Try to keep Ron Paul's candidacy alive; talk him up to those who do not understand what is coming down the pike. MIracles can still happen. Brokered conventions can happen. He is the only candidate who will try to keep the torch of freedom burning for not just our nation but the rest of the world.
Please take a moment out of your busy day to forward this email to all your elected officials at the local, state, and national levels. Please excerpt the guts of Roberts' article and put his words into a shortened version for a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. It is a known fact that your local paper is the best medium for getting the truth to the people. People read the sports section first, and then letters to the editor. Most small town newspapers will still print letters to the editor if they are not too long. And don't forget to include request that reader contact his elected officials IMMEDIATELY to repeal this legislation!! Give reader telephone number to call: (Capitol Switchboard) 202-224-3121.
Thank you,
God bless all of you and your families.
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
former Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Olga Scully" <liz@intas.net.au>
Date: April 1, 2008 4:52:55 AM EDT
To: liz@intas.net.au
Subject: [Fwd: What was the greatest failure of 2007?]
Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime
January 4, 2008
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush's "surge" in Iraq?
The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The
greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.
The American people's attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue
government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures while
running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing Republicans
with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no difference.
The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as
determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the
House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane
Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the
constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and
assembly.
The bill passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is
sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins and apparently faces no
meaningful opposition.
Harman's bill is called the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act."When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a
commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas.
The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and
compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short,
create massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators of
terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents
and fellow citizens.
We are beginning to see who will be the inmates of the detention centers
being built in the US by Halliburton under government contract.
Who will be on the "extremist beliefs" list? The answer is: civil
libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the
administration's wars and foreign policies, critics of the
administration's use of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of
the Geneva Conventions, and critics of the administration's spying on
Americans.
Anyone in the way of a powerful interest group--such as environmentalists
opposing politically connected developers--is also a candidate for the
list.
The "Extremist Beliefs Commission" is the mechanism for identifying
Americans who pose "a threat to domestic security" and a threat of
"homegrown terrorism" that "cannot be easily prevented through traditional
federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts."
This bill is a boon for nasty people. That SOB who stole your girlfriend,
that hussy who stole your boyfriend, the gun owner next door--just report
them to Homeland Security as holders of extreme beliefs. Homeland Security
needs suspects, so they are not going to check. Under the new regime,
accusation is evidence. Moreover, "our" elected representatives will never
admit that they voted for a bill and created an "Extremist Belief
Commission" for which there is neither need nor constitutional basis.
That boss who harasses you for coming late to work--he's a good candidate
to be reported; so is that minority employee that you can't fire for any
normal reason. So is the husband of that good-looking woman you have been
unable to seduce. Every kind of quarrel and jealousy can now be settled
with a phone call to Homeland Security.
Soon Halliburton will be building more detention centers.
Americans are so far removed from the roots of their liberty that they
just don't get it. Most Americans don't know what habeas corpus is or why
it is important to them. But they know what they want, and Jane Harman has
given them a new way to settle scores and to advance their own interests.
Even educated liberals believe that the US Constitution is a "living
document" that can be changed to mean whatever it needs to mean in order
to accommodate some new important cause, such as abortion and legal
privileges for minorities and the handicapped. Today it is the "war on
terror" that the Constitution must accommodate. Tomorrow it can be the war
on whomever or whatever.
Think about it. More than six years ago the World Trade Center and
Pentagon were attacked. The US government blamed it on al Qaeda. The 9/11
Commission Report has been subjected to criticism by a large number of
qualified people--including the commission's chairman and co-chairman.
Since 9/11 there have been no terrorist attacks in the US. The FBI has
tried to orchestrate a few, but the "terrorist plots" never got beyond
talk organized and led by FBI agents. There are no visible extremist
groups other than the neoconservatives that control the government in
Washington. But somehow the House of Representatives overwhelmingly sees a
need to create a commission to take testimony and search out extremist
views (outside of Washington, of course).
This search for extremist views comes after President Bush and the Justice
(sic) Department declared that the President can ignore habeas corpus,
ignore the Geneva Conventions, seize people without evidence, hold them
indefinitely without presenting charges, torture them until they confess
to some made up crime, and take over the government by declaring an
emergency. Of course, none of these "patriotic" views are extremist.
The search for extremist views follows also the granting of contracts to
Halliburton to build detention centers in the US. No member of Congress or
the executive branch ever explained the need for the detention centers or
who the detainees would be. Of course, there is nothing extremist about
building detention centers in the US for undisclosed inmates.
Clearly the detention centers are not meant to just stand there empty.
Thanks to 2007's greatest failure--the Democratic Congress--there is to be
an "Extremist Beliefs Commission" to secure inmates for Bush's detention
centers.
President Bush promises us that the wars he has launched will cause the
"untamed fire of freedom" to "reach the darkest corners of our world."
Meanwhile in America the fire of freedom has not only been tamed but also
is being extinguished.
The light of liberty has gone out in the United States.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal
editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor
of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at:
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