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EXCLUSIVE: Draft obtained of Victory Act [Orwellian Nightmare]L
by LibertyThink.com
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003 at 11:22 PM
editor@sianews.com
Exclusive draft copy obtained of the "Victory Act," being championed by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and Attorney General John Ashcroft. An Orwellian nightmare in the making.
LibertyThink.com has obtained from Washington contacts a draft copy of the http://www.libertythink.com/VICTORYAct.pdf">"Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003," also known by the Orwellian sobriquet "VICTORY Act."... This is .pdf file and requires Acrobat Reader (freeware) to view; sorry folks, the document is massive and this is how it came to us; no HTML version (yet) exists.
link woes
by LibertyThink.com
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003 at 11:35 PM
http://www.libertythink.com/VICTORYAct.pdf
Patriot Act: "What do Citizens' medical records have to do with terrorism?"
by R. Striker
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 10:57 PM
Patriot Act: "What do Citizens' medical records have to do with terrorism?"
Subject:Patriot Act: Why has Major Media never asked the question, "what do Citizens' medical records have to do with terrorism?"
Major media has mentioned that the Government under provisions of the Patriot Act can without probable cause can crawl through the private medical records of innocent U.S. Citizens. But why has major media never asked the obvious question, "what do Citizens' medical records have to do with terrorism?"
Sad to say, some police are corrupt and for payment would sell or provide citizens' private medical information to insurance companies, a CEO's company or competitor, anyone.
Please see below a flyer that is now circulating
R. Striker
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Should Doctors be Required to read Patients a
"Miranda Medical Records Warning?"
"That anything in your "Medical Record" may be accessed and used against you by the U.S. Government under the provisions of the Patriot Act. And that only some provisions of the Patriot Act may "Sunset in 2005."
The "Miranda Medical Records Warning" has the potential of becoming a "hot issue" and could be a common denominator to alert, educate and outrage the public concerning certain provisions of Patriot Act. Doctors being asked to PROVIDE lawful patients "Miranda Medical Records Warnings" would make great discussion on radio talk shows and has the potential of gaining national resistance against "similiar provisions" of the Patriot Act and other pending legislation.
Imagine lawful campaigns and resolutions being passed in U.S. Cities that demanded Doctors disclose to patients" "in writing and verbally" that their private medical records and consultations are not protected, but open to government invasion and sneak preview under the USA Patriot ACT: And that under the Patriot Act’s sharing of information provisions, the U.S. Justice Dept. can not be forced to reveal what government agencies or individuals may have gotten access to a patient's medical records.
Doctors who release their patients’ private medical records to government agents are exempt from liability under the Patriot Act: However, a campaign to require doctors inform patients about the Patriot Act and provide "Miranda Medical Records Warnings" would alert the public at large that their physicians have been made "Government Informants."
Consequently, millions of innocent citizens may not go to doctors upon learning their medical records and consultations are not private, but open to "government snoopers" under the Patriot Act: Asking "Doctors" to provide "Miranda Medical Record Warnings" to patients has the potential of turning "outrage" into lawful political action against politicians and other interests that supported the Patriot Act and/or other legislation that destroyed the "Bill of Rights and civil liberties."
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Ashcroft can Skip Grand Juries, Prosecutors and
by R. Striker
Thursday, Sep. 25, 2003 at 10:59 PM
Subject: Ashcroft can Skip Grand Juries, Prosecutors and Judges to charge the Mafia, Common Criminals and Innocent Citizens "with Financing Terrorism"
from, R. Striker
Under New Bush Plan: Ashcroft can Skip Grand Juries, Prosecutors and Judges to charge the Mafia, Common Criminals and Innocent Citizens "with Financing Terrorism"
Bush announced his new plan this week to expand counter-terrorism powers. Bush seeks to allow federal agents - without the approval of a judge or even a federal prosecutor - to demand from U.S. Citizens "their private records and forced testimony. Bush’s plans to accomplish this by using the power of
"Administrative subpoenas."
This exception sought by Bush is found in federal drug law and was recently contained in a bill introduced this week by Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.) Yet even there, prosecutors generally use the power to obtain records, not testimony.
The Bush plan calls for skipping the Grand Jury and its protection for U.S. Citizens and other defendants. Under the Bush plan, Citizens could be immediately interrogated and/or languish in jail.
Even if the statute of limitation has passed, the Bush plan will force U.S. Citizens to testify against him or herself and/or incriminate others. Much of this will be done in secret. Bush plans to expand the "death penalty" in crimes that involve "terrorist financing."
But what is "terrorist financing? The Patriot Act's mention of incidental criminal networks-opened the door for police under the Act's anti-terrorism provision to use "secret evidence and witnesses" to cause the imprisonment, execution and/or confiscation of assets of any person a government deems undesirable for even alleged non-terrorists crimes. Now Bush seeks the death penalty for "terrorist financing."
The Patriot Act redefined "Terrorist Association" as "any criminal activity or market" that may "relate" to supporting terrorists. Concern: Any legal or illegal activity can be alleged by the Justice Department to "finance terrorism."
Bush and Ashcroft have "established a pattern since 9-11" of using "fears of terrorism" to push Congress into passing so-called "anti-terrorist legislation", legislation containing provisions that appear more aimed at non-terrorists and/or intimidating, even crushing an American Citizen's right to free speech and association. "Bush's new plan to bypass grand juries, prosecutors, judges to interrogate U.S. Citizens, seems typical of this pattern. Is it ironic so many American Soldiers died during World War II in Europe to stop Hitler's fascism, and to stop Hitler's Gestapo (Police) from using "such interrogation tactics" and now the President of the United States and other elected officials (Congress) seek to employ many of the same interrogation methods against their own Citizens?
Example: For prosecution, the U.S. Patriot Act cleverly merged "alleged" common criminal activity with supporting terrorism: The Act states: criminals and terrorists use the same "world networks and organizations to "Market" illegal-drugs; and both have interests in criminal activity."
The U.S. Government can use Patriot Act I to charge any person or organization with criminal activity that involves illegal-drugs as being "related" to a "criminal market" that networks with terrorists." That covers about every world market.
The Patriot Act lends itself to selective enforcement because most "Colombian Cocaine" is taxed by right and left wing terrorists to protect shipments. It is unlikely that any "U.S. illegal drug marketer" could stop "Colombian terrorists" from taxing or using their "world markets" to distribute drugs or other criminal activity. Consequently, anyone having the slightest link with any alleged criminal network, could be charged under the Bush plan with "financing terrorism which can invoke the death penalty." That would include corrupt police that may be involved in selling cocaine on U.S. streets.
Recently, the Bush Administration stated that persons who use (buy drugs) in the U.S. are supporting terrorists. How far can Bush take this?
Charged Defendants Under the current Patriot Act start out guilty-having to prove they did not reasonably have reason to know the person(s), organization or entity they associated or networked had committed a terrorist act or would commit one in the future: what constitutes terrorism under the Act may be arbitrarily decided by police: Any physical act that is legal or illegal may be alleged by police to be or support a terrorist act under 18 USC 2331.
Bush’s plan would make it tougher for defendants in terrorist cases to be released on bail before trial. The "Bush plan" shifts the burden of proof from prosecutors to the defense in determining whether a defendant should be locked up. Bush appears intended to muzzle the judiciary branch of government, to remove whatever checks and balances remain after the passage of the Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act, contrary to the Constitution, included several "retroactive laws." U.S. Citizens can now be arrested because of what or whom they knew years before Congress passed the Patriot Act.
Under the Bush Plan, defendants may be sentenced to Death by secret and/or compelled testimony and never learn the evidence against them. Defending against "secret testimony and evidence" would be very difficult. "Government purchased testimony" is another concern under both the Patriot Act and the Bush plan, especially because the "Bush plan" calls for skipping the Grand Jury, prosecutors and judges: Like Nazi Germany, innocent Americans may expect for any reason, to be approached by government agents and taken off some where.
Imagine Americans arrested, forced to endure FBI and/or other agents sitting at their table whenever an attorney came to meet with them in jail? Could this happen here? Serious Question: Will charged U.S. Citizens be allowed independent attorneys under the Bush plan during "interrogations?"
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