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• "Homegrown Terrorism" Bill ~ News and Opinion Round-Up - Six Hours A Week: Adventures of a Sudden Patriot
• All the latest news as well as highlights of oppositional outcry from Sacramento to Atlanta. There should be enough here to convince even the most skeptical on your list that S1959 is a waste of resources. It won’t make us safer. As one writer points out, it sets up conditions that would have enabled Martin Luther King, Jr to be labeled a terrorist
  

  It is surprising how quickly people in government forget the injustices of the Blacklist era and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. It hasn’t even been a century since the Smith Act attempted to regulate our thoughts about Communism.

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  how much money do i have to throw at this before we’re safe again?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Z4ub2YFZY

  Wren, I think you’re naive, or are a mole, trying to sooth the “frogs”, while the water heats up, and before they know it, begins to boil!

  It is so horrifying that our most powerful and trusted leaders can so quickly forget the past. Not long ago we, as a nation, were in this same predicament.

  1940 The Smith Act: It became illegal to knowingly or willfully promote the overthrow of our government by force or violence.
  Therefore, the act of thinking of overthrowing the government became illegal.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act

  1947 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA): Congressional hearings begin based on the Smith Act calling to Washington members of the motion picture industry.
  Those called had few options.
  1 Become an informer and name names? of other communists.
  2 Plead the 1st Amendment and be held in contempt of congress warranting (as the Hollywood 10? did) a trip to prison for a few years.
  3 Plead the 5th Amendment and be blacklisted by Hollywood.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huac

  1950 Internal Security Act: Members of these groups (Communists) could not become citizens. Citizen-members could be denaturalized in five years.
  One with communist THOUGHTS could be stripped of his/her citizenship.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarran_Internal_Sec

  Many other atrocities upon the constitution were committed in this time, which I will name quickly without reference since this is such a long comment:

  The Subversive Activities Control Board forced communist organizations to register on a list
  Control of the mail and radio to communists
  Legalized detainment of communists without bail
  Deportations of communists and suspected communists

  George Bush has a connection to this era distant though it may be. George W. Bushs Father, George H. W. Bush was Ronald Reagans Vice President and Reagan was one of the friendliest witnesses the at HCUA interviewed. Reagan of course being a Hollywood Actor at the time and president of the Screen Actors Guild.

  The government is the terrorist.

  Am I a terrorist if I have some Homegrown?

  Quotes and opinions on the Homegrown Terrorism Bill in front of the Congress, my favorite quotes involve designating the internet as a hotbed of radicalism, explaining how this bill would designate MLK as a terrorist and the important question of not what

  War is Peace

  You Blitzrealizer. Al-Quaida and the Neocons had the same fucking aims from the start. Watch the BBC documentation “The power of nightmares” on video.google.com

  To give the terrorists less to hate stupid.

  so the terrorists will stop hating us, duh.

  i know that, you know that, but everyone else that votes thinks a few dudes in a cave somewhere pulled off the most sophisticated covert operation in history. yes, most voters are fucking retarded.

  Because the terrorists are winning! Stop them!