[Seattle-editorial] Feature Proposal: Homeland Insecurities

[Lance Larkin]

looks good. The second link doesn't work. Didn't check
all the rest.

Lance

--- Jeremy Kahn <jgk at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> Amber put this together and has asked me to look it
> over and forward it to
> you. Here's what she wrote, with a few links added
> and a tentative title.
> 
> Hope this looks good to you all.
> 
> --jeremy
> 
> TITLE: Homeland Insecurities
> <br> Subhead: Ministry of Privacy in the works
> <br> <br>
> 
> On November 19, the U.S. Senate <a
>
href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=34788&group=webcast">passed
> the
> Homeland Security Act</a> (H.R.5005) 90 to 9, a <a
>
href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR5005:">nearly-500-page
> document</a>
> that Senators had received only a bit over a week
> before the vote.
> 
> <br> Democrats did not challenge a frightening, if
> <a
>
href="http://commondreams.org/views02/1125-06.htm">disappointingly
> unsurprising</a>,
> provision for the <a
>
href="http://commondreams.org/views02/1121-03.htm">Gestapo-esque</a>
> <a
> href="http://www.darpa.mil/iao/">Information
> Awareness Office</a>, an agency which has the
> potential and power to <a
>
href="http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14611">end
> privacy</a> as we know it.  Following suit, both
> Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, Democratic
> senators from Washington state, <a
>
href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00249">voted
> in favor</a> of the Homeland Security Act.  Far from
> being a new development, the
> Information Awareness Office (IAO), headed by John
> Poindexter (Iran-contra convicted felon),
> was quietly announced as early as <a
>
href="http://www.justiceonline.org/webdocs/info_office.html">February
> 2002</a>.
> 
> <br> In addition, the bill gives the President power
> to <a
>
href="http://commondreams.org/views02/1121-07.htm">deny
> collective bargaining rights</a> to
> the estimated 170,000 federal workers who will soon
> be employed by the Department of
> Homeland Security.
> 
> <br> Resistance efforts on the local level have
> sprung up as at least 15 city governments,
> most recently <a
>
href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=35713&group=webcast">Eugene,
> Oregon</a>, have passed resolutions opposing civil
> rights infringements encouraged by the US
> Patriot Act.  Certain conservatives have also <a
>
href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33237">voiced
> their opposition</a>
> to the IAO's plans for massive invasion of privacy. 
> Other <a
>
href="http://www.musicalpeace.org/vyoma/December%2021.htm">symbolic
> acts of protest</a>,
> reminiscent of Buy Nothing day, are currently being
> organized.
> 
> <br>
> More information: <a
>
href="http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/">EPIC</a>
> | <a
>
href="http://indymedia.org/archive/features/current#6119">Global
> Indymedia feature</a> | <a
> href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/">the
> White House spin</a>
> 
> 
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