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Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood
ken bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Minneapolis Bill of Rights Defense Committee
The Minneapolis Bill of Rights Defense Committee was formed in order to promote a City Resolution opposing those parts of the USA PATRIOT and Homeland Security Acts, and associated orders and directives that threaten our Constitutionally guaranteed Civil Rights. Our organization is limited to promoting this resolution. We are not associated with any political party or other organization beyond a common interest in this goal. We welcome the participation of people and groups from across the political and social spectrums.
I ask you to read the Bill of Rights and then the USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Executive and Military orders. And then decide if you don�t think your rights are being taken away.
Our Bill of Rights Provides:
1) The right to be secure in your own home with your papers and effects free from unreasonable search and seizure.
2) The right not to be searched and seizure without probable cause and a court order stating the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
3) The right not to be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
4) The right to keep private property. It can�t be taken for public use without compensation.
5) The right to a speedy trial.
6) The right to an impartial jury.
7) The right to be confronted by witnesses against you.
8) The right to equal protection under the law.
9) Freedom of speech, to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
USA PATRIOT ACT
Law enforcement may wiretap your phone & Internet communications with out a court order.
Law enforcement may enter your home, conducting secret searches and taking photos with out evidence of criminal activity, and without telling you until they choose to inform you.
Law enforcement may search medical, financial and educational, library records and bookstore purchases. Record keepers may not divulge the search under penalty of prosecution.
Immigrants indefinitely detained on authority of the Attorney General.
Domestic terrorism, a new broadly defined crime, can apply to �peaceful protesters.� Women in Black, who silently vigil for Middle East peace, was named a potential terrorist group by the FBI.
To read the USA Patriot Act: http://www.cdt.org./security/010922response.shtml
HOMELAND SECURITY ACT
People may spy on others if �in the national interest.�
Under mere �presumption of guilt,� you, your car and your records may be searched.
Trace Internet activity without court order; credit card search with out notice
Anyone maybe jailed for 30 days without charges, and without a phone call.
To read recent Executive Orders: www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/index.html
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
American citizen Jose Padilla, has been held since May in a military brig, with no charges filed. US citizen Yasser Esam Hamdi is also confined without charges.
Conversations between federal prisoners and their attorneys may be wiretapped.
Justice Department regulations prohibiting illegal spying have been lifted. The CIA and FBI may join in conducting covert activities against domestic groups, as was done in the 1960�s to discredit leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Take Action Now
It�s time for citizen action! We must take back our Constitutional rights! Call your City Council Member today and ask them to support a Resolution opposing those parts of the USA PATRIOT and Homeland Security Acts, and associated orders and directives that threaten our constitutionally guaranteed Civil Rights.
Council Person Paul Ostrow 673-2201
Council Person Paul Zerby 673-2202
Council Person To Be Elected 673-2203
Council Person Barbara Johnson 673-2204
Council Person Natalie Johnson Lee 673-2205
Council Person Dean Zimmerman 673-2206
Council Person Lisa Goodman 673-2207
Council Person Robert Liligren 673-2208
Council Person Gary Schiff 673-2209
Council Person Dan Niziolek 673-2210
Council Person Scott Benson 673-2211
Council Person Sandy Colvin Roy 673-2212
Council Person Barret Lane 673-2213
Minneapolis BORDC P.O. Box 7303 Minneapolis, MN 55407 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
612-305-1232
Minneapolis.bordc.org
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