[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: [www-features] Proposed: Patriot Act Feature

[Sheri Herndon]

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>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:25:14 -0800 (PST)
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>Hi-De-Ho-Here's a proposed feature on the Patriot Act.
>I didn't write it in html code-because frankly I don't
>know how to do that.
>
>I have national as well as local analysis from what's
>happened here.
>
>I guess it's more of a "news analysis" piece than
>straight news.
>
>If you want an aimage you can go to our coverage and
>nab some photos from our pieces.
>
>Hasta La Vista!
>
>
>DOES THE ANTI-PATRIOT ACT RESOLUTION NEED A RIGHT JAB
>AS WELL AS A LEFT HOOK?
>
>
>	The Bill Of Rights Defense Committee's national web
>site (www.bordc.org) says that over 40 municipalities
>in the United States have passed resolutions dealing
>with the USAPATRIOTACT.
>
>	But if what has been going on in the St. Louis
>Metropolitan area with local activists on this issue
>is any indication of what's been going on nation-wide,
>local left activists are split on how to approach the
>issue: should they use their own organizations, or
>should there be agressive coalition-building with
>right-wingers who believe they have a dog in this
>fight?
>
>	West St. Louis County resident, Leonard Robertson,
>satrted a local Bill Of Rights Defense Committee to
>get a resolution passed, initially in liberal
>University City( see St. Louis IMC coverage at
>www.stlimc.org). Robertson says he wanted a braod
>coalition so that it could be passed in conservative
>areas of the metro-area as well. Robertson initial
>plan was to include Libertarians as well
>(http://www.cato.org/current/terrorism/pubs/levy-martial-law.html).
>
>However, most of the activism on this issue since then
>has been co-ordinated by local Green Party activists
>(http://www.gatewaygreens.org/brdc.htm),> But
>Robertson says he fears that an effort only led by The
>Greens will "kill" what he calls, "a beautiful
>movement." He sasy that going to the St. Louis Board
>of Aldermen with a resolution and the Greens saying
>"pass this 'cause we're the Greens," isn't going to
>work in St. Louis or anywhere else in the metro-area.
>
>For his part, Greens Organizer Don Fitz, says "We're
>open to work with this issue with anyone." But he
>says, "We don't have to leave The Left out," in
>approaching the St. Louis Board OF Aldermen with this
>issue. And he says, we must remember, "what this issue
>centers around and how  do we tie this issue to the
>anti-war movement and the way the Bush administration
>wants to suppress dissent."
>
>  But a National leader in the anti-USAPATRIOTACT
>movement, Hope Marston is not shy about what she says
>she had to do to get a resolution passed in Eugene,
>Oregon, "There was a conservative member of the city
>council who's support was especially
>important in getting this resolution passed."Largely
>because we had a conservative councilor on our side,
>who was very concerned about the Act and its relation
>to our constitutional guarantess." Marston says
>they'll probably need such continued support to get a
>county resolution passed and onward if they go for a
>county resolution or even a state-wide resolution.
>
>The anti-USAPATIOTACT movement has not been the
>exclusive f=province of leftists and liberals.
>Reporter Kari Lyderson reported for the on-line news
>and commentary service Alternet, on February
>21(http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15227),"
>Right-wing militias and groups like the National Rifle
>Association (NRA) are synonymous with the Second
>Amendment right to bear arms, and conservatives
>ranging from segregationists to opponents of
>reproductive choice lean heavily on the 10th Amendment
>giving lawmaking power to state governments.
>Right-wingers and libertarians are also ardent
>proponents of freedom of speech and property and
>privacy rights."
>
>
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