"HOMELAND SECURITY" was not written in response to 911.
911 was the pretext to get the American public to accept the unconstitutional plan.
Not that we had much choice.
"HOMELAND SECURITY" is from the Phase III Report of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century.
This is contained in the reference below.
HOMELAND SECURITY: A NAZI/FASCIST PLAN: THE PAPERS
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=12540
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: THAT'S RIGHT,THE SO-CALLED "ANTI-TERRORISM" BILL WAS
: RAMMED RIGHT DOWN OUR THROATS THROUGH OUR SENATE &
: HOUSE WITHOUT DEBATE OR NECESSARILY EVEN READING IT!
: BUT WHAT THE HECK, IT'S ONLY OUR CONSTITUTION.
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: October 13, 2001
: House Passes Terrorism Bill Much Like Senate's, but With
: 5-Year Limit
: By ROBIN TONER and NEIL A. LEWIS
: WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — The House of Representatives approved
: legislation today to give the government broad new powers
: for the wiretapping, surveillance and investigation of
: terrorism suspects.
: But, in recognition of many lawmakers' fears of the potential
: for government overreaching and abuse, the House also
: included a five- year limit after which many of those
: powers would expire.
: Passage of the bill, by a vote of 337 to 79, was the climax of
: a remarkable 18-hour period in which both the House and the
: Senate adopted complex, far-reaching antiterrorism
: legislation with little debate in an atmosphere of edgy
: alarm, as federal law enforcement officials warned that
: another attack could be imminent. Many lawmakers said it
: had been impossible to truly debate, or even read, the
: legislation that passed today.
: Civil liberties advocates implored Congress to slow down and
: consider the legislation's impact, which they said could be
: a dangerous infringement on Americans' privacy and
: constitutional rights. But the drive to send an
: antiterrorism bill to the president — it was called the
: Patriot Act in the House, the U.S.A. Act in the Senate —
: was strong. With lopsided votes in both houses, enactment
: of the measure, perhaps in a matter of days, is now seen as
: a fait accompli.
: The bill passed by the House is essentially the legislation
: approved by the Senate on Thursday night, although with a
: few key changes, including the five-year sunset provision.
: It was the product of last- minute negotiations between top
: House Republicans and the Bush administration, and was
: suddenly substituted this morning for a more cautious
: antiterrorism bill that had strong bipartisan support. Many
: Democrats were furious, and even some Republicans voiced
: dismay.
: Still, Republican leaders said it was critical to minimize
: differences with the Senate legislation and avert the need
: for lengthy negotiations between the two chambers.
: "The attorney general has been quite plain that as soon
: as the president signs the bill, law enforcement will begin
: using these new powers," said the House Judiciary
: chairman, Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.,
: Republican of Wisconsin. "Time is of the essence in
: light of the increased threat the F.B.I. has announced
: against the United States and its citizens."
: In a reflection of the sense of crisis, after casting their
: votes the lawmakers remained in the House chamber for a
: closed briefing on bioterrorism.
: Still, unlike the Senate, which passed its antiterrorism
: legislation by a vote of 96 to 1, the House had many
: Democrats who remained opposed to the bill; all but four of
: the votes against it were from Democrats. "We need to
: do everything in our power to end the blight of terrorism
: everywhere around the world," said Representative John
: Conyers Jr. of Michigan, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary
: Committee. "But we must remember that just as this
: horrendous act could destroy us from without, it could also
: destroy us from within."
: Mr. Conyers cited a variety of past government infringements
: on civil liberties during times of crisis, including the
: internment of Japanese- Americans during World War II and
: the adoption of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which
: among other things broadly proscribed criticism of the
: president or Congress.
: The legislation, produced in response to Attorney General John
: Ashcroft's demand for immediate action, would give the
: government new powers to monitor e-mail among terrorism
: suspects and, with a single warrant, wiretap any phones a
: suspect might use. It would increase penalties for those
: who support terrorist groups, and encourage greater sharing
: of information — including information obtained by grand
: juries — among intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
: The bill passed by the Senate also includes measures to fight
: money laundering — an important source of support for
: terrorism, many lawmakers said. The House bill does not
: include those provisions, and the Senate majority leader,
: Tom Daschle of South Dakota, said today that the Senate
: would not give final approval to a bill unless it had them.
: Another difference between the two bills is the sunset
: provision, which does not exist in the Senate's version but
: is considered to have wide support there. The House bill
: would allow the president to reauthorize the new powers
: after three years; after an additional two years, Congress
: would have to review and decide whether to extend them.
: Neither version incorporates the administration's proposal to
: allow, without the filing of charges, indefinite detention
: of foreigners suspected of involvement in terrorism.
: Instead, the attorney general would be permitted to detain
: such suspects up to seven days, after which they would have
: to be charged with a criminal or immigration violation or
: be released. But Timothy Edgar, a legal counsel at the
: American Civil Liberties Union, argued that the wording of
: the bills still left the possibility of indefinite
: detention of anyone certified as a terrorist suspect even
: if not charged.
: The bill also allows the authorities to carry out search
: warrants in people's homes, for example, without notifying
: them until afterward if officials assert that prior
: notification would obstruct an investigation. And the bill
: makes it a crime to harbor terrorists, and defines that
: crime broadly; one could be guilty simply by having
: "reasonable grounds to believe" that the person
: being harbored was a terrorist.
: Many lawmakers were outraged that a bipartisan bill, which had
: passed the Judiciary Committee by a unanimous vote, was set
: aside for legislation negotiated at the last minute by a
: very small group. Members rose to say that almost no one
: had read the new bill, and pleaded for more time and more
: deliberation.
: Representative David R. Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin, described
: the new bill as a "back-room quick fix." He added
: bitterly: "Why should we care? It's only the
: Constitution."
: Asked about complaints that lawmakers were being asked to vote
: on a bill that they had not read, the chairman of the Rules
: Committee, Representative David Dreier, Republican of
: California, replied, "It's not unprecedented."
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: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/13/national/13RIGH.html?todaysheadlines
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