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US Law Creates Police State
[COMMENT: The paragraph below is only a brief glimpse of an important essay that should be read in its entirety to gain the full sense of the deep trouble we are in.]
The "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001" is almost unbelievable in the degree to which it will turn the USA into a full-scale police state. Terrorism is very loosely and broadly defined, and life imprisonment is authorised for any offense which comes under this definition. The bill is retroactive and there is no statue of limitations. This means that people who were activists back in the 1960s or 1970s could be imprisoned for life, if their acts in the past could be construed as 'terrorism' under this new police-state bill. Even those who merely attended the demonstrations, or helped plan them, could be punished equally with those who actually committed the acts. Broad new powers of surveillance, preventive detention, and searches of homes without warrants are included in the police-state bill. Even minor computer hacking would be 'terrorism' and would be punishable by life imprisonment. And there many, many other equally frightening provisions.

posted by Lorenzo 4:38 PM