vision2020
Re: ACLU Action Update: Congress Must Protect Against Domestic Spying
Why would you want to associate with an organization who defends NAMBLA(look
it up), wants our national motto 'God Bless America' banned from everything
and everywhere, or co-sponsors the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion
Providers? Not I.
Mike Rush
----- Original Message -----
From: "Archie" <archie@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: ACLU Action Update: Congress Must Protect Against Domestic Spying
> Visionaries;
> This should be of interest to many on the list. I believe we are losing
the very freedoms this
> nation stands for.
> Archie George, Moscow
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <action@dcaclu.org>
> To: <aclu_list@capwiz.mailmanager.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:54 AM
> Subject: 06-05-02 -- ACLU Action Update: Congress Must Protect Against
Domestic Spying
>
>
> > TO: ACLU Action Network
> > FR: Jared Feuer, Internet Organizer
> > DT: June 5, 2002
> >
> > 1). Attorney General Guts Domestic Spying Restrictions
> > 2). The ACLU Needs You Now More Than Ever!
> >
> > 1). Last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft gutted restrictions on the
FBI's spying on domestic
> religious and political organizations. These constraints, some of the
most fundamental controls of
> the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were originally imposed on the FBI in
the 1970s when it was
> learned that the Bureau had engaged in decades of widespread domestic
surveillance of individuals
> involved in anti-war and civil rights activities.
> >
> > Under Ashcroft's new guidelines, the FBI is free to conduct undercover
spying in any house of
> worship or political group -- even if there is not a shred of evidence
that someone in the group
> has or plans to break the law. Further, the FBI is also allowed to openly
snoop through the
> Internet, credit card data and such purchases as books and pharmacy items.
> >
> > The government's failure to process data that it had prior to the tragic
attacks of September 11
> does not argue for more data collection, it argues for better analysis.
Failure of the government
> to assess this data must not be used to permanently expand unchecked
government power or to
> diminish the Bill of Rights.
> >
> > Take Action! You can read more and send a FREE FAX to your Members of
Congress, urging them to
> call on Ashcroft to overturn these new guidelines from our action alert
at:
> >
> > http://www.aclu.org/action/spy107.html
> >
> > 2). The ACLU Needs You Now More Than Ever! From CNN to The New York
Times, from CBS and the other
> major networks to The Washington Post and newspapers across the country,
last week the ACLU was the
> most prominent critic of Attorney General Ashcroft's decision to gut the
domestic spying
> guidelines. You can help strengthen our already powerful voice in this
country by becoming a
> card-carrying member of the ACLU. Click below to join today!
> >
> > http://www.aclu.org/action/joinaclu.html
>
>
>
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