[Nettime-bold] Fw: The USA PATRIOT Act

["Steve McAlexander" <mcalexander@veriomail.com>]

The fat is in the fire now.  Freedom as we knew it just had its lease
Revoked....  Check out the links below for more interesting news



> Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
>
> President Bush signed a broad anti-terrorism bill into law at a White
> House ceremony this morning, granting federal authorities unprecedented
> surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers.
>
> In addition to permitting authorities to use more overseas intelligence
> information, the measure allows for longer detentions of suspects who are
> not US citizens, grants the FBI broad access to sensitive personal
> records, makes the payment of membership dues to political organizations a
> potentially deportable offense, expands wiretapping authority while
> decreasing judicial supervision and creates a broad new definition of
> "domestic terrorism" that could target people who engage in acts of
> political protest and subject them to wiretapping and enhanced penalties.
>
> The bill, crafted in Attorney General John Ashcroft's office in the wake
> of last month's terrorist attacks, passed both houses of Congress
> overwhelmingly Thursday. Rare are the moments in American history when a
> Congress has surrendered so many cherished freedoms in a single trip to
> the altar of immediate fear.
>
> As Laura Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington National Office, told The
> Nation: "This bill goes light years beyond what is necessary to combat
> terrorism. Included in the bill are provisions that would allow for the
> mistreatment of immigrants, the suppression of dissent and the
> investigation and surveillance of wholly innocent Americans."
>
> For the full story read the latest installment of John Nichols's Online
> Beat currently at:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/
>
> And don't miss these editorials, articles and columns from the new
> November 12, 2001 issue of The Nation:
>
> JONATHAN SCHELL: The New Brink
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=schell
>
> ERIC ALTERMAN: 'Blowback,' the Prequel
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=alterman
>
> BRUCE SHAPIRO: Information Lockdown
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=shapiro
>
> IAN URBINA: US Bows to Turkey
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=urbina
>
> JOSHUA B. FREEMAN: Working-class Heros
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=freeman
>
> MICHAEL MASSING: Media Watch: Seven Days In October
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=massing
>
> WILLIAM GREIDER: Pro Patria, Pro Mundus
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=greider
>
>
> SEPTEMBER 11 RESOURCES
>
> We've also created a special page on The Nation website, where we're
> collecting all of our September 11 material, including articles, links,
> activist info, resources on Islam and the Chomsky/Hitchens debate. So
> check it out at:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/special/wtc/index.mhtml
>
>
> WHAT IS PATRIOTISM?
>
> Ten years ago, The Nation published a special issue on patriotism (July
> 15/22, 1991), which addressed just what patriotism is and ought to be.
> Given the relevance of the question today, we've re-published selections
> from that special issue: From Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven; Jesse
> Jackson; Katrina vanden Heuvel; William Sloan Coffin; Martin Duberman;
> Richard Falk; Howard Fast; Erwin Knoll; Mary McGrory and Natalie Merchant,
> among others.
>
> All available currently at:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/mhtml?i=archive&s=schaar_wtc_19910715
>
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> Peter Rothberg, Associate Publisher
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