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[Your Rights Or Your Safety,You Shouldn't Have To Choose]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Doughty)
Fri Oct 12 13:43:01 2001
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:42:11 -0400
Message-Id: <200110121742.f9CHgBN01049@mgm.mit.edu>
From: Laura Doughty <laura@mgm.mit.edu>
To: peace-list@mit.edu
This seemed to me to be an important item to forward.
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:01:56 -0400
From: "Greenpeace USA" <listreply@wdc.greenpeace.org>
Subject: Your Rights Or Your Safety,You Shouldn't Have To Choose
Greenpeace USA Action Alert
11 October 2001
> Your Rights Or Your Safety, You Shouldn't Have To Choose
The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on the
"Uniting and Strengthening America Act (USA)." As an attempt
to enhance the ability of law enforcement and government
agencies to prevent terrorist acts this legislation is being
put forth with the best of intentions. But no matter how
good the intentions, the bill as actually written contains a
dangerous definition of terrorism that should concern
every American.
As written, this definition could lead to large-scale
investigations of American citizens for supporting and
engaging in civil disobedience and have the perverse effect of
discouraging citizens from participating in the very essence
of our democracy -- the right to peacefully
protest.
Tell your Senators you should not have to choose between
your civil rights and your personal safety!
Take Action:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/takeaction/peacefulprotest.htm
Learn More:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/rants/
