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On 7 Mar 2021, at 20:13, George Duncan wrote:
H.R.4079 - National Drug and Crime Emergency Act101st Congress
(1989-1990)
BILLHide Overview
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/4079#>
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrich, Newt [R-GA-6]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/newt-gingrich/G000225> (Introduced
02/22/1990)
Committees: House - Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Public Works and
Transportation; Education and Labor; Armed Services
Latest Action: House - 05/03/1990 Referred to the Subcommittee on
Crime.
Apparently Newt Gingrich's bill in 1990 never got out of committee.
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On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM Prof David West <[email protected]>
wrote:
Generally, I have very little interest in government legislation and
certainly do not invest much time or effort in reading or remembering
individual legislative acts.
Until today, I had exactly one paper copy of a house bill — H.R.
4079,
short title: National Drug and Crime Emergency Act — in my files.
That bill would have declared a five year emergency during which:
- "concentration camps, ala the internment camps for citizens of
Japanese
ancestry, including tents, for the expected surge in inmates and
including
use of surplus military bases for such camps.
- prohibition of courts hearing any cruel and unusual cases based
on
overcrowding
- five year mandatory, no release, sentences for any drug crime
including possession, increasing for more severe offenses
- mandatory work by all federal prisoners along with seizure of any
federal benefits/moneys ordinarily due to the prisoner
- all evidence in drug cases could not be withheld on 4th amendment
grounds
- suspension of Habeus Corpus (compliments of Strom Thurman for
which
the section is named)
- payment of financial incentives to citizens reporting suspected
drug
activity with higher incentives if convictions result
- and FEMA was going to be the administering agency for the
"emergency"
This year, I am printing and filing HR 1 to my folder of "remarkable"
proposed legislation; for what I perceive to be equally absurd and
illegal/unconstitutional provisions — all for an "emergency" that
has no
basis in reality (again in my opinion).
davew
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