<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:44 AM<br>Subject: Controversy over the National Defense Authorization Act : American equivalent of a gulag<br>To: <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.467em;text-align:left;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/congress-vs-constitution/1323799353" target="_blank">http://www.truth-out.org/congress-vs-constitution/1323799353</a></p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.467em;text-align:left;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
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The Court held that, under the PATRIOT Act's material support provisions,�<i>a defendant may be held guilty of material support for terror without ever intending to support violence</i>.�</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.467em;text-align:left;font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
Months later, the FBI conducted raids of property of dozens of peace and justice activists. Today, it continues an investigation that has stretched beyond a year. It's one thing for activists to be monitored, infiltrated and then harassed by government authorities for their speech and political views.�</p>
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The NDAA would vastly enhance those government powers, creating the authority to detain indefinitely without trial. Mere accusation would be enough to deny freedom to law-abiding people. Rather than face FBI harassment, those activists - and any others raising awareness about issues like foreign policy or corporate environmental policies - could face�<a href="http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=4978" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(153,0,0)" target="_blank">the American equivalent of a gulag</a>.</p>
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The PATRIOT Act's material support provisions allow our government to criminalize speech and repress political dissent, a frontal assault on the First Amendment. And with material support cases grounded in associational guilt, the First Amendment is also eroding from its figurative sides.</p>
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