In a message dated 5/12/00 8:45:31 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The WO(S)D has been used by TPTB to shred our civil > liberties. The Fourth Amendment is toast and so is the Fifth. This new > "Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Bill" is the last twist of the knife > already deep in the heart of the First Amendment. People can go to the site listed below and send a fax pre-written (well-written IMO) by DRCNet. ************************************************************ Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet) Rapid Response Team ************************************************************ ALERT: Drug War Bill Threatening Freedom of Speech -------------------------------------------------- VISIT: http://www.drcnet.org/freespeech/ 5/8/00 An insidious attack on the 1st Amendment is taking place, and your help is needed to stop a bill that the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to "mark-up" on Tuesday, May 8th or Wednesday, May 9th. Your help is needed to oppose the bill in Judiciary until then and in the larger House if it gets through. Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/freespeech/ and tell Congress that H.R. 2987, the so-called "Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999" won't stop meth but will injure the Constitution. If H.R. 2987 passes, anyone whose web site even links to certain kinds of drug information could face up to ten years in federal prison. Groups like DRCNet that are devoted strictly to policy reform could be placed at risk through association. Web sites helping patients make decisions about marijuana as a medicine could elicit the heavy hand of the criminal justice system, as could sites helping to reduce the harm of drug addiction through safer-injecting techniques and other harm reduction measures. Other provisions of the bill are no better, requiring the US Sentencing Commission to increase mandated federal penalties for methamphetamine offenses and moving drug policy as a whole further down the drug war's destructive path. Please tell Congress you oppose H.R. 2987 in its entirety, but that you're particularly opposed to the sections titled "Advertisements for Drug Paraphernalia and Schedule I Controlled Substances" and "Criminal Prohibition on Distribution of Certain Information Relating to the Manufacture of Controlled Substances." Please visit http://www.drcnet.org/freespeech/ to send a free e-mail or fax to Congress. While you're doing that, please write down your Representative's phone number, which our system will provide, and call it to make even greater impact, or just call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be transferred. Please make your voice heard today, while you can! VISIT: http://www.drcnet.org/freespeech/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to DRCNet's weekly newsletter and action alert list, visit http://www.drcnet.org and enter your name, e-mail address and state in the "quick-signup form to the right. To unsubscribe from DRCNet, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words signoff drc-natl as the message (not the subject), or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. DRCNet needs your support! Please visit our registration form at http://www.drcnet.org/drcreg.html to make a donation on our encryption-secured credit card form or enter your name, address and pledge amount to print out and send in with your check. Or just send checks or money orders to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036-8402, or call your credit card info in to (202) 293-8340. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html <A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om