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To: Poohbah
I am only reading what the FBI has put out as guidance to local LEOs.

Are the local PDs supposed to read it, or "interpret" it on some higher level?

207 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:09 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
Are the local PDs supposed to read it, or "interpret" it on some higher level?

Like anything else...law enforcement relies on good judgement and discrimination, better known as "profiling." Ain't it just heck to be a bearded, swarthy-skinned Arab (even an Arab-American) right now? But it's a fair assessment.

217 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:12 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: Travis McGee
I found this link with a summary of the Bill

Here is what I was looking for:

Title VIII: Strengthening the Criminal Laws Against Terrorism - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit specific terrorist acts or otherwise destructive, disruptive, or violent acts against mass transportation vehicles, ferries, providers, employees, passengers, or operating systems.

(Sec. 802) Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) revise the definition of "international terrorism" to include activities that appear to be intended to affect the conduct of government by mass destruction; and (2) define "domestic terrorism" (my bold) as activities that occur primarily within U.S. jurisdiction, that involve criminal acts dangerous to human life, and that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence government policy by intimidation or coercion, or to affect government conduct by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.

(Sec. 803) Prohibits harboring any person knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that such person has committed or to be about to commit a terrorism offense.

(Sec. 804) Establishes Federal jurisdiction over crimes committed at U.S. facilities abroad.

(Sec. 805) Applies the prohibitions against providing material support for terrorism to offenses outside of the United States.

(Sec. 806) Subjects to civil forfeiture all assets, foreign or domestic, of terrorist organizations.

(Sec. 808) Expands: (1) the offenses over which the Attorney General shall have primary investigative jurisdiction under provisions governing acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries; and (2) the offenses included within the definition of the Federal crime of terrorism.

(Sec. 809) Provides that there shall be no statute of limitations for certain terrorism offenses if the commission of such an offense resulted in, or created a foreseeable risk of, death or serious bodily injury to another person.

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It goes on, --- but while this pamphlet published in Phoenix is stupid, I don't see the actual bill as taking away any more of our freedoms than living with uncontrolled terrorist behavior would.

233 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:58 PM PST by maica
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