[Blood of Tyrants]

The more innocent sounding the name, the more chilling the implications. If they ever come out with the Warm Fuzzy Puppies and Laughing Children Act, we are doomed.

[Eala]

The more innocent sounding the name, the more chilling the implications. If they ever come out with the Warm Fuzzy Puppies and Laughing Children Act, we are doomed.

Note my tagline...

[ActionNewsBill]

Measures in the 89-page draft include:

Creation of a new category of crime called "Narco-terrorism."

Radical expansion of asset forfeiture powers for the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.

Expansion of the definition of money-laundering to several kinds of transactions, including offshore banking as a means of tax evasion.

Creation of a ludicrous new "crime" of "reverse money-laundering."

Longer jail terms for a number of nonviolent drug and nondrug offenses.

Expanded opportunities for judge-shopping in wiretap cases.

Expansion of nonjudicial "administrative subpoenas" for "terrorism" investigations as broadly defined in the USA PATRIOT Act.

. . . and that's just a partial listing.

Draft text of VICTORY Act

[E Rocc]

P. J. O'Rourke once commented that when politicians claim to be working on behalf of a cause that no one could logically oppose, that's when they need to be watched the closest. He was referring to environmentalism, but the same concept certainly applies to the "Patriot" Act and its offspring.

-Eric

[Straight Vermonter]

Kinda like all of the communist countries calling themselves Democratic such and such or People's such and such.

Truly creepy.