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Democracy In Your Hands.
Do you support FG Bill #5?
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H.R.1955 Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
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”`(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security shall develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, or civil liberties of any racial, ethnic, or religious group, and shall include the results of audits under such mechanism in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.’.”
Let DHS govern itself? That’s insane.
Please stop the War on Terror from spreading to America by voting No on the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
Hm… more government… interesting. Doesn’t the FBI already do this? Does this represent restructuring of the current roles (much like establishing DNI ) from the current National Counterterrorism Center to something under DHS ? I like the idea of a Civil Rights Advocate within the DHS (as I’m totally in favor of a Privacy Advocate in the Attourney General’s office) but this seems like duplication of efforts in general. Anyone have more/better information on how this would affect the current Executive Branch organization?
Somewhere I read that when a bird lives in a cage too long, the door to its cage opening will not cause it to fly out. I believe people in general have become too complacent everywhere. They need change but like the bird stay behind the bars that their political structure has placed them in because that is all they have ever known.
People demanding transparency from those they have entrusted politically and wanting to be involved in the decision making process is not something for a government to fear. After all are not the people the ones who make their government?
People should not fear their government. Governments should fear the people.
I can think of plenty of legitimate cases in which people should have the ability. along with the responsibility, to promote such “homegrown” terrorism. This bill just ensures that the government could silence those individuals.
I can think of plenty of legitimate cases in which people should have the ability. along with the responsibility, to promote such “homegrown” terrorism. This bill just ensures that the government could silence those individuals.
I oppose the “War On Terror”, and I feel that this is another front in that concept that will isolate us and fear our government and each other.
It seems to me that studying the motivations of your enemy is a reasonable thing. It specifically states, in effect emphasizing, that violating civil rights is not allowed. If “they”’re going to violate that, they don’t need this commission to do it. If I were going to object to it on any grounds, it would be that it shouldn’t need a separate commission: it’s something the fbi and state department should already have done and be doing on an ongoing basis. Indeed, it’s clear they have done, albeit often ignoring the civil rights part. But perhaps having a commission generating reports might get some slight time on the news where people might get a bit of a wake up call on how our attitudes piss people off.
This is a move to keep those in power in power. Any group that is big enough to oppose them and make an impact can be attacked with claims that they were planning to use violence.