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.
When FR was/is united against the Clintons there were no problems. But those days are over and FR is a mixture of opinions now. There are those that need to realize that their opinions are not shared by all and exercise some self-restraint.
We are not here to restrain ourselves. We are here to debate the issues of the day. Some people will go overboard from time to time but that comes with the territory. I have learned to ignore people who go off on me. If anything, we should learn to assume good intentions.
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