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Two Moran Forums on 'Patriot Act' Slated This Month
http://www.fcnp.com ^ | 9/8/03 | Falls Church News Press

Posted on 09/08/2003 5:55:41 AM PDT by chambley1

Two forums in Northern Virginia in September will focus on the USA Patriot Act and its dangerous implications for civil liberties.

• On Sunday, Sept. 14, Rep. Jim Moran will lead a list of spokespersons in a discussion of the act and its consequences at the Arlington County Library, 1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The Arlington chapter of Amnesty International will host the forum. In addition to Moran, other spokespersons will be Kit Gage from the National Coalition Against Repressive Legislation, Sherifah Rafiq of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, Jeanne Herrick-Stare from the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union. The event is free and refreshments will be served.

• On Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the City Council chambers in the City of Falls Church City Hall, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, the Falls Church chapter of the League of Women Voters will host a forum on the topic at 7:30 p.m., entitled, "The Patriot Act: Protective or Destructive?"

The panel on that date will include Robert Weinberg, a law professor who teaches Criminal Procedure at the University of Virginia Law School and the George Washington University Law School. He also teaches a course on the Bill of Rights at the Arlington Institute in Retirement. He will be joined by Jim McGee, an investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner, formerly of the Washington Post and Miami Herald. He currently works for the Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security publication. The third panelist will be Leonard Bailey, senior counsel of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and past legal counsel for the Criminal Division's Terrorism and Violent Crime Unit.

The program is open to the public and a question-and-answer period will follow the panel discussion.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: arlingtonva; jimmoran
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1 posted on 09/08/2003 5:55:41 AM PDT by chambley1
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To: chambley1
Is the FReep in opposition or support of the PATRIOT Act?
2 posted on 09/08/2003 6:00:08 AM PDT by jmc813 (Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
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To: jmc813
I would assume opposition to at least some of the more unconstitutional sections.
3 posted on 09/08/2003 6:08:08 AM PDT by FiscalConserv
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To: kristinn; sauropod; Angelwood
Two Moran Forums on 'Patriot Act' Slated This Month [DC CHAPTER FREEP TIME!]

Are y'all aware of this one?

4 posted on 09/08/2003 6:16:42 AM PDT by dirtboy (www.ArmorforCongress.com - because lawyers with a clue are rarer than truth-telling Democrats)
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To: FiscalConserv
The Patriot Act isn't really a big deal. All it does, at the end of the day, is give law-enforcement agencies the right to use the same tools (roving wire-taps, delayed-notification searches etc.) against terrorist subjects that law-enforcement has been using against organized crime for decades.
5 posted on 09/08/2003 6:17:43 AM PDT by Modernman
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To: jmc813; dirtboy; Angelwood; kristinn; tgslTakoma
Opposed.
6 posted on 09/08/2003 6:29:07 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: kristinn; Angelwood; tgslTakoma
I can do the 23 Sept. one. Cannot do the Sunday 15 Sept. one.
7 posted on 09/08/2003 6:30:03 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: sauropod
Were you elected to be the Free Republic's spokeman on this issue?
8 posted on 09/08/2003 6:40:56 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Were you elected to be the Free Republic's spokeman on this issue?

The poster initially called for a DC Chapter Freep. The DC Chapter has a core group of dedicated members who have earned the right to decide what the DC Chapter is going to support. Sauropod is one of those members. How many rallies and protests have YOU gone to?

9 posted on 09/08/2003 6:45:09 AM PDT by dirtboy (www.ArmorforCongress.com - because lawyers with a clue are rarer than truth-telling Democrats)
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To: dirtboy
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but the problem you run into is that all freepers may not support that. Once again, I ask, who decides what FR supports or doesn't support?

Personally, I agree with Judge Bork

10 posted on 09/08/2003 6:56:00 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Once again, I ask, who decides what FR supports or doesn't support?

The DC Chapter is its own entity. And any member of FR can go out and protest on their own.

11 posted on 09/08/2003 6:56:54 AM PDT by dirtboy (www.ArmorforCongress.com - because lawyers with a clue are rarer than truth-telling Democrats)
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To: chambley1
Hopefully Moran can refrain from punching any little kids in the face.
12 posted on 09/08/2003 6:57:05 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Ben Ficklin
Were you?
13 posted on 09/08/2003 7:20:49 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: dirtboy; Ben Ficklin; hellinahandcart; kristinn
Precisely.

I guess we should be okey dokey with things like secret trials, evidence you never get to see, etc. etc....

/eyeroll

14 posted on 09/08/2003 7:24:15 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: Ben Ficklin
I do NOT agree with those that want to accept the Patriot Act as a good thing!

Gubbermint has a propensity to grasp more and more control in our lives.

Just look at what they're doing at airports. Harassing Grandma, making her take off her shoes, and not daring to ethnically profile folks of middle eastern extraction.

15 posted on 09/08/2003 7:26:30 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: sauropod
I never claimed to be the FR spokesman.

In your reply #6 you mention that you are opposed, and in reply # 7 you mention that you will be FR's spokesman on the 23rd.

16 posted on 09/08/2003 7:31:38 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin; dirtboy
I never claimed to be the FR spokesman in post No. 7. (although maybe I should be). I stated my availability to attend the events and perhaps speak.

I have the right to speak about what I believe is right whether i have the official FR imprimatur or not.

BTW, you haven't answered dirtboy's question.

17 posted on 09/08/2003 7:35:38 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: sauropod
No one is saying that you are not entitled to your opinions, but are your opinions the same as FR on the whole.

A similar situation would be Judge Bork saying that he speaks for the Federalist Society. Even though he is a very influential member of that org, he does not claim to be their spokesman.

18 posted on 09/08/2003 7:41:27 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: sauropod
I don't think any of those things will come to pass against rank and file citizens. But we need the ability to go after foreign terrorists.

I'm of the opinion that anything Moran is fer, Im agin. But protesting Moran is like picking on the retarded kid. Too easy.

19 posted on 09/08/2003 7:43:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
The DC Chapter is a separate entity
20 posted on 09/08/2003 7:44:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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