[Seattle-editorial] Feature Proposal: Homeland Insecurities

[jonathan lawson]

Good work.
approve!

The second link works for me. Anyone want to add an image, or need a 
reminder how to do so?

Jonathan



At 10:43 AM 11/27/2002 -0800, Jeremy Kahn 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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