Paul Revere, please call your office...
The American Civil Liberties Union continues to urge Americans to help them to "Stop the new Patriot Act!" In a message to the group's Action Network Members, the ACLU says Attorney General John Ashcroft "has been secretly preparing new legislation that would significantly reduce privacy protections and essentially eliminate some of the most fundamental checks and balances on governmental power."
Referring to a leaked draft outlining potential enhancements to existing laws designed to aid in the war against terrorism, the ACLU says the program would, if enacted, "severely undermine basic constitutional rights." A free fax service to send messages to legislators on Capitol Hill has been set up on the group's Web site at ACLU.org in the "safe and free" section.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030317-092031-9772r Bob Barr has been warning people about this and even joined the ACLU to become a insider there from the right.