IP: re: ACLU Calls New Senate Terrorism Bill..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 07:41:43 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Larry Tesler <tesler () pobox com>
>
>
> > The bill also creates a new crime of "domestic terrorism." The new 
> > offense would transform protestors into terrorists if they engage in 
> > conduct that "involves acts dangerous to human life." Members of 
> > Operation Rescue, the Environmental Liberation Front and Greenpeace, for 
> > example, have all engaged in activities that could subject them to 
> > prosecution as terrorists. Then, under this legislation, the dominos 
> > would fall. Those who provide lodging or other assistance to these 
> > "domestic terrorists" could have their homes wiretapped and could be 
> > prosecuted.
>
> Especially worrisome because, quite often, the people performing dangerous 
> acts during peaceful protests are agents provocateurs sent in by law 
> enforcement to provide an excuse to arrest or tear gas the protesters. 
> This practice would now not only land innocent protesters in hospitals or 
> jails for a night or two. It would brand them terrorists and subject them 
> to grave consequences.
>
> Larry Tesler



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