Wednesday, November 21, 2007

House passes "anti-radical" billhttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/~c110CbDMQs::As I understand it, this bill would ban not only terroristic behaviour, but "radical" ideology as well. Of course it would be the government that would be deciding just what beliefs are a threat to the public order. Could our views be criminalised? Here is a post from another web group I belong to. .R. 1955: Violent "The language in this piece of legislation is very vague and ambiguous. It can be twisted in a way that could label grass roots organizations as terrorists groups for peacefully protesting.As a Catholic distributist, this is concerning. What if I want to protest outside an abortion clinic? Or what if some neocon says groups such as ours are "radicals" and "extremists" ? You know how much the corporate media hates people like us.Already the neocon shills in the media are labeling grassroots movements against the current administration' s failing policies as terrorists that the military should go after!Just the other day I saw Glenn Beck (an obvious neocon shill) say people who support Presidential candidate Congressman and Doctor Ron Paul are terrorists that the government should track down and imprison!Personally, I'm voting for Libertarian leaning Ron Paul, even though I'm a distributist. But I'm voting for him because I want to prevent the US government from getting worse by choosing the candidate that is going to undo the restriction of rights that Bush's administration imposed.This bill already passed in the House 400 to 6!Its headed to the Senate, we need to spread the word to stop this bill."

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