National Emergency -Executive Orders!
From: John_Kirby@ccm.jf.intel.com (John Kirby)
EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EXPOSURE LAW--(Already Passed by Congress)
On October 5, 1982, Dr. Brain T. Clifford of the Pentagon announced at a press
conference ("The Star", New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact between U.S.
citizens and extra-terrestrials or their vehicles is strictly illegal.
According to a law already on the books: (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, adopted on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots),
anyone guilty of such contact automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be
jailed for one year and fined $5,000.
Jim Keith and Art Wholeflaffer carefully explain:
The Constitution of the United States is meant to provide a bulwark against
tyrannical assaults on the American public by its own government, but the
Constitution has over the years been repeatedly violated and sidestepped to
provide the controllers almost all the power they crave. One matter in which
the continual state of emergency in this country be succeeding presidents, a
condition which has been in force without exception for over 40 years.
The "Special committee on the Termination of the National Emergency" in 1973
provided two studies to Congress detailing this "continuing emergency." They
stated that "...the people of the U.S. have lived all of their lives under
emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed
by the Constitution have been abridged by laws brought into force by states of
national emergency."
Senator Church of Idaho commented on this incredible state of affairs, saying
that "since 1933 it has been Congress' habit to delegate extensive emergency
authority and not to set a terminating date. Consequently, the U.S. now has on
the book at least 470 significant emergency powers statutes without time
limitations. These statutes delegate to the President extensive discretionary
powers which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing
ways. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to
rule this country without reference to normal constitutional processes. These
emergency powers statutes are invoked by a presidential declaration of a state
of national emergency. The U.S. has been in such a state of declared national
emergency since March 9, 1933. In addition to the national emergency, there is
also the national emergency proclaimed by Truman on December 16, 1950, plus
Nixon's declarations on March 23, 1970 and August 15, 1971.
The Special Committee's report additionally noted that: "At the end of the
Korean war the official state of emergency was not terminated. It has not yet
been terminated. This is, for all practical purposes, a permanent state of
emergency. Over the course of at least 40 years, Presidents have had available
an enormous, seemingly, expanding and never-ending range of emergency powers.
These prerogative powers appear to be virtually unlimited. Because Congress and
the public are unaware of the extent of these emergency powers, these has never
been any notable congressional or public objection made to this state of
affairs. Nor has the courts imposed significant limitations. Congress should
therefore act in the near future to terminate officially the states of national
emergency now in effect"
Such were the recommendations of the committee, although congressional
representatives did not fall all over themselves to act on them. Indeed, since
the issuing of that report, American presidents have continued to enact
additional Emergency Orders, providing themselves and their successors with
virtually unlimited emergency powers.
The Executive Orders and Presidential directives are scrawled by Presidents of
the United States without benefit of review of the people or Congress. This
allows Presidents to unlawfully delegate to themselves powers which the
Constitution rightfully denies, on the pretext that there is an "emergency"
taking place which they need to respond to. Here are the Executive Orders which
the President can proclaim under any ***undeclared emergency*** What is an
"undeclared emergency"? How about an ALIEN INVASION??
EO 10995, authorizing the suspension of the freedom of speech and the
commandeering of all communication media. (Like this one)
EO 10997, authorizing the takeover of electrical systems and other fuel sources.
EO 10998, providing for the government control of food sources, including farms.
EO 10999, which authorizes the control or confiscation of the nation's
transportation sources, public and private. (Keep a good pair of running shoes
around)
EO 11000, which gives the government the right to form work brigades of
citizens. (Does this sound like fun, sheeple?)
EO 1100, providing for the takeover of all health, education, and welfare
functions and facilities.
EO 11002, authorizing a national registering of the populace. (Sounds like the
ol' U.S.S.of A.)
EO 11003, authorizing the takeover of all airplanes and airports.
EO 11004, which gives government the mandate to relocate populations from one
area to another. (Like after World War Three-coming soon to a planet near you!)
EO 11005, which provides for the government to take over railways, waterways,
and public storage facilitates. (Do you still want to vote Rebuplicrat or
Demopublican?)
EO 12148, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take over the
executive functions of the government. (I thought FEMA just helped victims of
hurricanes, floods and disasters like that.)
Ex-President Clinton has signed an executive order that subjects "suspects"
arrested for a federal offense to drug tests. If refused by the suspect he is
incarcerated based "solely" on his refusal of the test. Now anyone who can
implement this type of Nazism, is capable of anything. Furthermore, there must
be a " super-constitutional force of law" behind these executive orders, or this
would not be possible. If nothing else the process and authority behind these
executive orders needs to be CAREFULLY investigated.
Current President Bush, who LOST the election but had the Supremely Political
Court install him as Dictator-For-Life, has implemented these LAWS as part of
the Un-Patriot Act #2:
Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures
encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:
SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration's
"enemy combatant" definition to all American citizens who "may" have
violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section
802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is "any
action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or
State law.") Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to
Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the
incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn't broad
enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.
Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed
off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice
Department states that they can do this because the person "had inferred
from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the
First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can
result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation.
SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any
member of the government or any citizen to release any information
concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states
that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have
arrested and they never have to release the names.
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national
database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the database to
include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone
involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as "terrorist."
These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation
or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State governments to
collect the DNA for the Federal government.
SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations
against the American people and would place substantial restrictions on
court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the
board.
SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and
again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of
whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be
clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news
gathering illegal.
SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers
domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of
war exists.
SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that
broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges
set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location)
granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that
government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no
prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment
against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contemp charges
against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves
or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the Fifth
Amendment.
SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act
were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other
subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us:
"this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."
SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of
"surveillance without a court order."
SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that
the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press
reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads,
"thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that
directed against more conventional types of crime."
*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second
Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight
international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of
course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA
Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.
SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of
public and private sector information from bank records to educational and
medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total
Information Awareness Network to take break down any and all walls of
privacy.
The government states that they must look at everything to "determine" if
individuals or groups might have a connection to terrorist groups. As you
can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical
examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill
Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that
people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.
SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal
and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows
individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena. So
now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal
agents.
SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with toxic
biological, chemical or radiological materials.
SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial
dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a
terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone
investigating Haliburton.
SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The
database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will
share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same
purposes.
SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of
information sharing.
SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big
businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security, violating
their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all preventative
measures - has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the access hub for the
Total Information Awareness Network.
SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people
and to share information with foreign governments.
SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows
officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens
anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take
individuals out of foreign countries.
SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The
section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual even
had the intent to aid terrorists.
SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to
include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to use
encryption in the commission of a crime.
SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole host
of crimes.
SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in
terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now
considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point
to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or
support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.
SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section
states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will
result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in
terrorist activities.
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The Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law
On 16 July 1969, a United States law was passed called the
"Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law" that made it illegal for the
public to come in contact with extra-terrestrials or their
vehicles. (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal
Regulations). Anyone found guilty of such contact could face up
to one year imprisonment as well as a fine of $5000. Also, any
individual who had been "exposed" could be quarantined under
armed guard by the NASA administrator without a hearing.
The law was passed originally to protect Earth from possible
biological contamination resulting from the US Apollo Space
Program and other space exploration programs. It has been
suggested by researchers and scientists that the U.S. government
was very concerned that contact with extra-terrestrial bacteria
could result in a worldwide plague. The immune system of human
beings wouldn't be able to fight off extra-terrestrial bacteria,
so therefore any kind of "extra-terrestrial exposure" was taken
very seriously.
People in the UFO community especially were alarmed with the law
because its broad definitions could allow the US government to
prosecute people in NASA as well as individuals of the general
public who come into contact with extra-terrestrials and their
vehicles.
UFO and ET believers found it interesting that in one hand the
government was denying they had any interest in extra-
terrestrials, yet they had a law which forbid contact with ETs
and their craft.
1211.100 Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
Part 1211 - Extra-terrestrial Exposure
1211.100 - Scope
This part establishes:
# NASA policy, responsibility and authority to guard the Earth
against any harmful contamination or adverse changes in its
environment resulting from personnel, spacecraft and other
property returning to the Earth after landing on or coming
within the atmospheric envelope of a celestial body; and
# security requirements, restrictions and safeguards that are
necessary in the interest of national security.
1211.101 - Applicability
The provisions of this part to all NASA manned and unmanned
space missions which land or come within the atmospheric
envelope of a celestial body and return to the Earth.
1211.102 - Definitions
# "NASA" and the "Administrator" mean, respectively, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration or his authorized representative.
# "Extra-terrestrially exposed" means the state of condition of
any person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever, who or which has:
1. Touched directly or come within the atmospheric envelope or
any other celestial body
2. Touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been
exposed indirectly to) any person, property, animal or other
form of life or matter who or which has been
extra-terrestrially exposed by virtue of paragraph (b)(1) of
this section. For example, if person or thing "A" touches
the surface of the Moon, and on "A's" return to Earth, "B"
touches "A" and, subsequently, "C" touches "B", all of these
- "A" through "C" inclusive - would be extra-terrestrially
exposed ("A" and "B" directly; "C" indirectly).
3. "Quarantine" means the detention, examination and
decontamination of any persons, property, animal or other
form of life or matter whatever that is extra-terrestrially
exposed, and includes the apprehension or seizure of such
person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever.
4. "Quarantine period" means a period of consecutive calendar
days as may be established in accordance with 1211.104
Administrative actions.
The Administrator or his designee..shall in his discretion:
# 1. Determine the beginning and duration of a quarantine period
with respect to any space mission; the quarantine period as it
applies to various life forms will be announced.
2. Designate in writing quarantine officers to exercise
quarantine authority.
3. Determine that a particular person, property, animal, or
other form of life or matter, whatever is extra-terrestrially
exposed and quarantine such person, property, animal, or other
form of life or matter whatever. The quarantine may be based
only on a determination, with or without the benefit of a
hearing, that there is probable cause to believe that such
person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever is extra-terrestrially exposed.
4. Determine within the United States or within vessels or
vehicles of the United States the place, boundaries, and rules
of operation of necessary quarantine stations.
5. Provide for guard services by contract or otherwise, as many
be necessary, to maintain security and inviolability of
quarantine stations and quarantined persons, property, animals
or other form of life or matter whatever.
6. Provide for the subsistence, health and welfare of persons
quarantined under the provisions of this part.
7. Hold such hearings at such times, in such manner and for
such purposes as may be desirable or necessary under this part,
including hearings for the purpose of creating a record for use
in making any determination under this part for the purpose of
reviewing any such determination.
#
1. During any period of announced quarantine, no person shall
enter or depart from the limits of the quarantine station
without permission of the cognizant NASA officer. During such
period, the posted perimeter of a quarantine station shall be
secured by armed guard.
2. Any person who enters the limits of any quarantine station
during the quarantine period shall be deemed to have consented
to the quarantine of his person if it is determined that he is
or has become extra-terrestrially exposed.
3. At the earliest practicable time, each person who is
quarantined by NASA shall be given a reasonable opportunity to
communicate by telephone with legal counsel or other persons of
his choice.
1211.107 Court or other process
# NASA officers and employees are prohibited from discharging
from the limits of a quarantine station any quarantined person,
property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever during
order or other request, order or demand an announced quarantine
period in compliance with a subpoena, show cause or any court or
other authority without the prior approval of the General
Counsel and the Administrator.
# Where approval to discharge a quarantined person, property,
animal or other form of life or matter whatever in compliance
with such a request, order or demand of any court or other
authority is not given, the person to whom it is directed shall,
if possible, appear in court or before the other authority and
respectfully state his inability to comply, relying for his
action on this 1211.107.
1211.108 Violations
Whoever willfully violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to
violate any provision of this part or any regulation or order
issued under this part or who enters or departs from the limits
of a quarantine station in disregard of the quarantine rules or
regulations or without permission of the NASA quarantine officer
shall be fined not more that $5,000 or imprisoned not more than
1 year, or both.
On 16 July 1969, a United States law was passed called the
"Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law" that made it illegal for the
public to come in contact with extra-terrestrials or their
vehicles. (Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal
Regulations). Anyone found guilty of such contact could face up
to one year imprisonment as well as a fine of $5000. Also, any
individual who had been "exposed" could be quarantined under
armed guard by the NASA administrator without a hearing.
The law was passed originally to protect Earth from possible
biological contamination resulting from the US Apollo Space
Program and other space exploration programs. It has been
suggested by researchers and scientists that the U.S. government
was very concerned that contact with extra-terrestrial bacteria
could result in a worldwide plague. The immune system of human
beings wouldn't be able to fight off extra-terrestrial bacteria,
so therefore any kind of "extra-terrestrial exposure" was taken
very seriously.
People in the UFO community especially were alarmed with the law
because its broad definitions could allow the US government to
prosecute people in NASA as well as individuals of the general
public who come into contact with extra-terrestrials and their
vehicles.
UFO and ET believers found it interesting that in one hand the
government was denying they had any interest in extra-
terrestrials, yet they had a law which forbid contact with ETs
and their craft.
1211.100 Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space Part 1211 - Extra-
terrestrial Exposure 1211.100 - Scope
This part establishes:
NASA policy, responsibility and authority to guard the Earth
against any harmful contamination or adverse changes in its
environment resulting from personnel, spacecraft and other
property returning to the Earth after landing on or coming
within the atmospheric envelope of a celestial body; and
security requirements, restrictions and safeguards that are
necessary in the interest of national security.
1211.101 - Applicability
The provisions of this part to all NASA manned and unmanned
space missions which land or come within the atmospheric
envelope of a celestial body and return to the Earth.
1211.102 - Definitions
"NASA" and the "Administrator" mean, respectively, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Administrator of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or his
authorized representative. "Extra-terrestrially exposed" means
the state of condition of any person, property, animal or other
form of life or matter whatever, who or which has: Touched
directly or come within the atmospheric envelope or any other
celestial body Touched directly or been in close proximity to
(or been exposed indirectly to) any person, property, animal or
other form of life or matter who or which has been extra-
terrestrially exposed by virtue of paragraph (b)(1) of this
section. For example, if person or thing "A" touches the surface
of the Moon, and on "A's" return to Earth, "B" touches "A" and,
subsequently, "C" touches "B", all of these - "A" through "C"
inclusive - would be extra-terrestrially exposed ("A" and "B"
directly; "C" indirectly). "Quarantine" means the detention,
examination and decontamination of any persons, property, animal
or other form of life or matter whatever that is extra-
terrestrially exposed, and includes the apprehension or seizure
of such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter
whatever. "Quarantine period" means a period of consecutive
calendar days as may be established in accordance with 1211.104
Administrative actions.
The Administrator or his designee..shall in his discretion:
Determine the beginning and duration of a quarantine period with
respect to any space mission; the quarantine period as it
applies to various life forms will be announced. Designate in
writing quarantine officers to exercise quarantine authority.
Determine that a particular person, property, animal, or other
form of life or matter, whatever is extra-terrestrially exposed
and quarantine such person, property, animal, or other form of
life or matter whatever. The quarantine may be based only on a
determination, with or without the benefit of a hearing, that
there is probable cause to believe that such person, property,
animal or other form of life or matter whatever is extra-
terrestrially exposed. Determine within the United States or
within vessels or vehicles of the United States the place,
boundaries, and rules of operation of necessary quarantine
stations. Provide for guard services by contract or otherwise,
as many be necessary, to maintain security and inviolability of
quarantine stations and quarantined persons, property, animals
or other form of life or matter whatever. Provide for the
subsistence, health and welfare of persons quarantined under the
provisions of this part. Hold such hearings at such times, in
such manner and for such purposes as may be desirable or
necessary under this part, including hearings for the purpose of
creating a record for use in making any determination under this
part for the purpose of reviewing any such determination. During
any period of announced quarantine, no person shall enter or
depart from the limits of the quarantine station without
permission of the cognizant NASA officer. During such period,
the posted perimeter of a quarantine station shall be secured by
armed guard. Any person who enters the limits of any quarantine
station during the quarantine period shall be deemed to have
consented to the quarantine of his person if it is determined
that he is or has become extra-terrestrially exposed. At the
earliest practicable time, each person who is quarantined by
NASA shall be given a reasonable opportunity to communicate by
telephone with legal counsel or other persons of his choice.
1211.107 Court or other process
NASA officers and employees are prohibited from discharging from
the limits of a quarantine station any quarantined person,
property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever during
order or other request, order or demand an announced quarantine
period in compliance with a subpoena, show cause or any court or
other authority without the prior approval of the General
Counsel and the Administrator. Where approval to discharge a
quarantined person, property, animal or other form of life or
matter whatever in compliance with such a request, order or
demand of any court or other authority is not given, the person
to whom it is directed shall, if possible, appear in court or
before the other authority and respectfully state his inability
to comply, relying for his action on this 1211.107.
1211.108 Violations
Whoever willfully violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to
violate any provision of this part or any regulation or order
issued under this part or who enters or departs from the limits
of a quarantine station in disregard of the quarantine rules or
regulations or without permission of the NASA quarantine officer
shall be fined not more that $5,000 or imprisoned not more than
1 year, or both.
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Additions from the Patriot Two!!
- Making it easier to initiate surveillance and wiretapping of U. S.
Citizens under the authority of the little-known Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court (FISC). (Sections 101, 102 and 107)
- Permitting the government, under certain circumstances, to bypass the
FISC altogether and conduct warrantless wiretaps and searches. (Sections
103 and 104)
- Sheltering federal agents engaged in illegal surveillance without a
court order from criminal prosecution if they are following the orders of
Executive Branch officials. (Section 106)
- Creating a new category of "domestic security surveillance" that permits
electronic eavesdropping of entirely domestic activity under looser
standards than provided for ordinary criminal surveillance. (Section 122)
- Using an overly broad definition of terrorism that could cover some
protest tactics such as those used by Operation Rescue or the protesters
at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, as a new predicate for criminal
wiretapping and other electronic surveillance (Sections 120 and 121)
- Providing for general surveillance orders covering multiple functions
for high-tech devices and by further expanding pen register and trap and
trace authority for intelligence surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful
permanent foreign residents. (Sections 107-124)
- Creating a new and separate crime of using encryption technology that
could add five years to any jail sentence for crimes committed with a
computer. ((Section 144)
- Expanding the PATRIOT Act's definition of nationwide search warrants and
giving the government secret access to credit reports with consent or
judicial process (Sections 125 and 126)
- Enhancing the government's ability to obtain sensitive personal
information without prior judicial approval and providing new penalties
for failure to comply with written demands for such records. (Sections 128
and 129)
- Allowing for the sampling and cataloging of innocent Americans ' genetic
[DNA} information without a court order or the individual's consent.
(Sections 301-306)
- Permitting sensitive personal information to be shared with state and
local law enforcement agencies despite any connection to anti-terrorism
measures, (Section 311)
- Terminating court-approved limits on police spying, put in place to
prevent Mc-Carthy-era style police persecution based on political or
religious affiliation. (Section 312)
- Permitting searches, wiretaps and surveillance of U.S. citizens on
behalf of foreign governments - to include dictators and human rights
abusers' - in the absence of Senate-approved treaties. (Sections 321-322)
- Authorizing secret arrests in immigration, material witness and other
cases where the detained person is not criminally charged. (Section 201)
- Threatening public health by severely restricting access to crucial
information concerning health risks by facilities that use dangerous
chemicals. (Section 202)
- Diminishing corporate responsibility by grant immunity to businesses
that provide information to government terrorism investigations even if
such actions are taken with disregard for the customer's privacy and show
reckless disregard for the truth. (Section 313)
- Undermines basic constitutional rights by overly broad definitions of
"terrorism" and "terrorist organization" which could result in stripping a
native-born American of citizenship if they wittingly or unwittingly
support any organization deemed terrorist by government officials.
(Section 501)
- Creating 15 new categories of the death penalty, including one should a
death result from otherwise peaceful protests such as Operation Rescue.
(Section 411)
- Permitting arrests and extradition of American citizens to any foreign
country including ones with bad human rights records, in the absence of a
Senate-approved treaty and unfairly targeting immigrants by opening
sensitive personal visa files to local law enforcement agencies and
extended jail terms for common immigration offenses. (Sections 322, 311
and 502)
- Permitting summary deportations of American citizens deemed a threat to
national security by Attorney General Ashcroft, even with no evidence of
criminal activity, intent or terrorism. (Section 503)
-Completely abolishing fair hearings for American citizens convicted of
minor criminal offenses through a retroactive "expedited removal"
procedure and preventing any court from questioning the government' s
unlawful actions by explicitly exempting these cases from habeas corpus
review. (Section 504)