Law student asks questions about the USA PATRIOT Act, gets the brush-off locally, then gets called by Homeland Security… really? Anecdotal tales from the livejournal libraries community.
Category: usapa
PATRIOT Watch: bordc sez call your rep
Anti-USA PATRIOT Act activities are still going strong. If you’re the call-your-representative type, today is a good day to do it and tell them to support the Sanders-Paul-Conyers-Otter-Nadler Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Appropriations Bill of 2005.
USAPA in full effect? and they can take my house keys??
Oh hey guess what? Remember when Ashcroft called us all “hysterics” and then showed us convincing documents stating that section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act had never been used? Apparently it now has been. [laz]
let the sun set on USAPA
The EFF blog is on my RSS feed so I get to read great stuff like this: Let The Sun Set on USA PATRIOT. New one tomorrow!
Every two weeks … we profile one of the 13 provisions scheduled to sunset and explain in plain language what’s wrong with the provision and why Congress should allow it to expire.
today’s long-ass article on the PATRIOT Act is….
Resolving to Resist by Elaine Scarry is a long and worthwile article on how people are resisting the USAPA.
“Despite impediments to resistance, 238 towns, cities, and counties have now created a firewall against executive trespass in their communities. Though there are many differences between the resolutions… the resistance is built out of six identifiable acts”