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Ashcroft says America "freer today than it has been in any time in the history of human freedom."
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... "Our success is reflected in the fact that America is more secure today than it was two years ago," Ashcroft told a group of about 150 law enforcement officers and prosecutors. "America is safer than it was two years ago and America is freer today than it has been in any time in the history of human freedom." ...
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Is that so? Then why is it that he only gives his police state rallies to police and prosecutors? Why aren't people free to come to his pep talks? Why are little girls' lemonade stands being shut down? Why do people go to jail, with felony charges, for carrying firearms for self-defense in many places? Why do people go to jail for traveling without their "papers"?
John Ashcroft is a LIAR. |
OH: Ohio Supreme Court Finds Ban On Concealed Firearms Constitutional !
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Just another example of a Supreme Court that obviously doesn't understand plain English. It's the concealment of the firearm that seems to be the problem, only problem now is the fact that we can't carry them in the open either...so how does one constitutionally keep and bear arms in Ohio? Simple: You Can't...the criminals must be rejoicing. |
Cramer on the Ohio Supreme Court ruling
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Clayton Cramer has a lengthy analysis of the Ohio Supreme Court's ruling today. The ruling upholds the Ohio ban on concealed carry, but according to Cramer, does so on a fairly embarrassing foundation: racism and class warfare. Or, in other words, one of the cited precedents was intended to disarm blacks; the other intended to disarm the poor ("tramps"). |
"There were nearly 700,000 violent school crimes in 2000."
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WASHINGTON -- "Only 52 of the nation's 91,000 public schools...are labeled persistently dangerous by their states."
"Local school officials have been shooting holes in the label since it was levied in August."
"Some experts say there's a problem with each state having its own guidelines."
"There were nearly 700,000 violent school crimes in 2000. This year is the first time states must identify their most dangerous schools and let those students enroll elsewhere."
"Forty-four states and the District of Columbia reported no unsafe schools." ... [emphasis added]
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How many teachers and administrators are legally allowed to protect the children from these 700,000 violent criminals? Zero. Instead, any teacher who is found carrying a self-defense device to protect children is fired, and some have been charged with crimes. Thus, whenever possible, sane people do not put their children into government indoctrination centers. |
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With the fiat money system in America today, this is all too possible here. |
MO: Schools prepare policies to ban weapons
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" 'Off limits to concealed weapons' signs are expected to appear soon on Ladue school property, in one of the first local school board responses to a new Missouri law."
"Since the Legislature voted Sept. 11 to allow Missourians to carry concealed weapons, a number of school officials have begun to review the issue. Parkway, Pattonville and Rockwood are among school boards that plan to consider the issue in the weeks ahead."
"The Missouri law will take effect Oct. 11. A policy that the Ladue School Board adopted Monday takes effect immediately." ... |
Philippines: Businessman gets 3-year prison term for possession of .38 revolver
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"THE REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) yesterday sentenced a durian businessman to three years in jail for possessing a .38 homemade caliber revolver for violating the gun ban during the barangay elections last year. Judge Renato Fuentes of RTC Branch 17 found Arthur Catalya guilty of violating Commission on Elections Resolution 4818 that showed he possessed a gun at about 9:30 p.m. of July 18, 2002."
"Fuentes ruled the pieces of evidence presented by Prosecutor Lolito Evangelio was sufficient to convict Catalya of Los Amigos, Tugbok to his crime." ... |
Australia: Elderly woman held at gunpoint
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"AN elderly shopkeeper was threatened at gunpoint during a robbery at his suburban Melbourne store this morning."
"The man stole cash after producing a firearm during a robbery at the shop at Syndal, in Melbourne's east, about 8am (AEST)."
"A police spokesman said the robber took a small amount of money from the Blackburn Road store and fled towards the Syndal railway station."
"Police were appealing for any witnesses who may have seen him at the station or around the Blackburn Road shopping strip." ...
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CA: Davis signs bill sure to further reduce variety of firearms available to The People
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"California will become the first state in the nation to require handguns to have two new safety devices under a bill signed by Gov. Gray Davis Wednesday."
"Gun safety advocates said the bill, which will require semiautomatic pistols to have both a chamber load indicator and a magazine disconnect device by 2007, will make the state safer and bolster California's reputation for tough gun laws." ...
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Some gun manufacturers can't afford to comply. Others could but won't. So this bill is in fact a gun ban -- another one -- in California. |
WA: Firing range, for police only, gets closer to reality
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"A firing range is coming to the area, but some local residents are unhappy that they are not included on the members list."
"The Bureau of Reclamation ...plans to build a firing range near Coulee Dam."
"It will be located approximately one mile east of the town in a former excavation site known at Bret Pit. The pit will have ranges of 50, 100 and 300 yards for rifle and handgun training. The 50-yard range will have lighted lanes and each range will have a backstop and a bullet trap at the end."
"...the area is still being surveyed and will not open until next spring. The range, however, will only be available to security and local law enforcement, and not to the general public." ... |
AL: Former Chief Deputy Given Home Detention In Gun Buy Case
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Lawrence County chief deputy Jim Martin was sentenced to six months of home detention and placed on two years probation yesterday. In late June, the 44-year-old Martin pleaded guilty to a charge of making false statements to help a reserve deputy obtain a firearm and ammunition clip in violation of federal firearms laws.
Federal Judge Sharon Blackburn also ordered Martin to pay a $2,000 fine.
Prosecutors said Martin admitted using letterhead from the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office to write a letter on behalf of three residents who purchased .40-caliber Glock pistols.
It's not illegal to own the pistols the men obtained. The weapons, however, had a gun clip holding 15 rounds of ammunition, which is available only to law enforcement officials. Clips available to the public carry 10 rounds. |
NY: Alarming cases of gun thefts
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"Thieves know that a stolen gun is as good as cash or a quick supply of drugs."
"By their logic, the best targets for a break-in are locations where they can steal dozens of guns in a single theft."
"Some of those inviting targets are the shops and homes of federally licensed gun dealers. That's where thieves struck twice in July in the city of Syracuse." ... |
The Political Profile Project
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One of the problems I have always faced, going into an election, is figuring out who to vote for. Sometimes it's easy; if there's a Libertarian running, he or she gets my vote. But if not, I have to try and synthesize what I have read and researched on each candidate, where they stand on the issues, judge whether they will keep their word if elected, and so on. And in many cases, there's just not much information available. But it doesn't have to be that way. |
NY: Politician Wants $36M for Video Cameras at Government Schools
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"City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. yesterday proposed that the NYPD install video cameras at entrances and exits of the city's 1,200 public schools - at a cost of $36 million.
Vallone (D-Queens), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said the cameras are needed because crime in schools is still rampant, even though it has been declining"
And when that isn't enough, they'll install them everywhere else like the locker rooms like on school did. |
Army Admits Using JetBlue Data
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"Millions of JetBlue passenger records were used in a military effort whose methods closely resemble those employed in the notorious Terrorism Information Awareness �berdatabase program, the Army confirmed Monday."
"Last week, defense contractor Torch Concepts came under heavy scrutiny after Wired News revealed that the company had crunched fliers' private data without their knowledge." ... |
Send no flowers, avoid police state, be a patriot
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"An Iraqi-born computer engineer legally enters this country, works, pays taxes and follows the rules only to find he's persona non grata for having sent flowers back in 1997 to a then-estranged wife. He now faces deportation in our new world disorder, where anyone of Arab descent rightly fears getting branded a terrorist."
"Kussay Al-Sabunchi pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of sending flowers in violation of a court order in which he should have stayed away from his now ex-wife...As he points out, he sent flowers - not weapons of mass destruction..." ... |
KY: The Patriot Act challenged in downtown Louisville
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Outrage follows John Ashcroft like a shadow these days. Last Thursday, it joined him in downtown Louisville.
�I fear for the civil rights of the American people,� said Rose Colley, 75, a mediator and member of Sisters of Loretto, a teaching order established in Kentucky in 1812.
Holding a sign that read, �Homeland Security Means No Privacy,� Colley described the Patriot Act, signed into law on Oct. 26, 2001, as a tactic used by Ashcroft and the Bush administration to erode basic public rights.
�They�re taking away the rights of the people,� she said. |
MA: Firearm injuries as compared from before Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1998 and several years later
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"The following chart reflects the numbers of firearm injuries as compared from before Chapter 180 of the Acts of 1998 and several years later. The figures regarding injuries were taken directly from the January 2003 Massachusetts Department of Public Health�s Weapon Related Injury Surveillance System (WRISS). These numbers represent a complete failure of the promises made five years ago by the proponents of gun control." ... |
Banning the killers - Baltimore Sun's hit piece against semi-auto rifles
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"IN ABOUT a year, unless Congress acts, the decade-old federal ban on assault weapons will expire."
"The public needs to remind lawmakers and Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. before the General Assembly convenes in January what polls have already shown: A majority of Marylanders support gun control. A statewide poll conducted for Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse found overwhelming support (64 percent) for a ban on future sales of military-style weapons. Even among Republicans, the preference (52 percent) was for a ban. That was the finding of a 2003 survey of 838 registered voters by the Gonzales/Arscott Research firm."
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MS: Cameras Watching Students, Especially in Biloxi
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"A digital camera hangs over every classroom here, silently recording students' and teachers' every move. The surveillance system is at the leading edge of a trend to outfit public schools with the same cameras used in Wal-Marts to catch thieves."
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"In January, cameras at a school in Livingston, Tenn., recorded 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls undressing in adjacent changing areas in preparation for basketball, and stored the images on a computer accessible through the Internet, according to a federal lawsuit filed by parents." ... |
Liberty in the balance: Citizens across the U.S. speak out
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"Concerned about the lengths to which the government has gone to defend the nation since Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of Americans like Armstrong are speaking out, fighting back and banding together in unusual political alliances against everything from enhanced government surveillance to increased airport security measures." ... |
Switzerland: Global model for gun rights going soft?
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"Switzerland's minister of justice has called for national gun registration in a country held up by U.S. gun-rights advocates as a model for armed societies."
"The call by Ruth Metler comes just a week before the second anniversary of Switzerland's worst multiple gun homicide. Nearly two years ago, a lone gunman armed with a fully automatic military rifle stormed the parliament building in Zug and killed 14 elected officials. A similar number were wounded, said reports..." |
FL: Herald-Tribune restricts sales of guns in classifieds?
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"A convicted felon with a restraining order for domestic violence, Mark Williams couldn't pass a federal background check to buy a gun."
"Police say the Bradenton man found a way around that law in the pages of the Herald-Tribune. On April 27, Williams scanned the paper's classified ads and purchased a semiautomatic handgun from another individual."
"...police say Williams used the gun to kill his estranged wife, Raquel Soliz-Williams, in front of her 9-year-old daughter."
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Would this newspaper stop selling automobiles through their paper if one was used to commit a lethal crime? Nope. So this is a complete anti-gun farce and nothing more. |
Helplessness is for Wimps and Deadguyz - Ted Nugent
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Again Ted Nugent says it all!
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"With all the yapping and hand wringing about Homeland Defense, I�m somewhat perplexed there hasn�t been more discussion about how average Americans can secure their country from terrorists, thugs and other assorted human debris and scum."
"You heard it here first: homeland defense begins at home." ... |
"Families of Sniper Victims Deal With Loss"
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"Some of the family members and survivors have become advocates, fighting for new laws banning weapons such as the Bushmaster rifle allegedly used in the shootings. Some have sued the maker of the gun and the store it came from. Others mourn quietly, closely guarding their privacy." ... |
MN: 1 student shot dead in "gun free school"
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"One of two students shot late this morning at Rocori High School later died, authorities said."
"The other student was in critical condition Wednesday afternoon, police said."
"Authorities were holding a freshman in the shooting of the two male students."
"When police arrived, the freshman was in the custody of the school's staff in an administrative office."
"Jones said the investigation was still underway, but that it appeared a well-respected, veteran teacher and coach talked the suspect into surrendering a small-caliber gun."
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A back door to Poindexter's Orwellian dream
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"DARPA's dreaded Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, .. lives on at the state level in an incarnation called, ominously, the MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange)."
"There's a lot to dislike in this new end-run around Congressional oversight. For one thing there are federal dollars behind it -- four million from the Department of Justice -- which makes it clear that the Feds will be expecting a payoff." ... |
The Technological Theft of Our Privacy
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"Big Brother is no longer a paranoid's nightmare � he's alive and living deep inside the Pentagon."
"Specifically, Big Brother is operating under the pseudonym of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It has unleashed a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves to throw our tax dollars at any number of technological schemes to spy on us and destroy our Constitutional right to privacy." ... |
MA: Multiple robbers strike in single weekend, where arms are strictly regulated
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This in a state where you need a $100 permit for pepper spray.
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"Totting (sic) weapons ranging from pistols, knives and even a gun resembling a shotgun, as many as seven bandits committed five different armed robberies last weekend, police said."
"On Tuesday, Brookline Police made one arrest as a result of one of the weekend robberies and now have a warrant out for another man's arrest in connection to the same incident."
"A Saturday night stick-up of three juveniles by two black men with a knife in Coolidge Corner is believed by police to be the act of one man already in police custody and another culprit who is still at large."
"But, the investigations into the four other crimes committed by the five other bandits are ongoing." ... |
UK: 'When Gunman Took Aim I Felt Sick With Dread'
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"An Aberdeen policeman today told how he feared for his life as a fleeing man pulled a pistol on him during a city chase."
"Sergeant Henry Ferguson told the High Court he felt 'sick with dread' during the pursuit in the Printfield area."
"He said he was confronted three times by a gunman pointing a heavy silver weapon at him."
"During the incident the officer attempt to stay out of the line of fire but at one stage during the chase a child appeared."
"Describing the moment the gun was turned on him, the 32-year-old said: 'It had never happened to me before. It was surreal ... I felt sick actually immediately, I felt sick with dread in my stomach.' " ...
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SD: "Moose situation handled wrong"
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"I believe that the way in which the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks department handled the moose in Rapid City on Wednesday, Sept. 17 was entirely inappropriate and unprofessional."
"John Kanta, a biologist with the GF&P, has been quoted as saying that 'We would be breaking our own rules if we asked Bear Country to come and get the moose.' My question to John and the rest of the officers involved is, isn't it also breaking your own rules to fire a .308 caliber rifle into the animal and then follow it up with five subsequent rounds from a 12-guage tactical shotgun? - especially when every mountain town in the Rocky Mountain region lives with moose in the streets on a regular basis!' " ...
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Weapon permits differ by state
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"Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., is working on a bill that would create a national concealed weapons permit. The Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement Act is in a House judiciary subcommittee on crime and homeland security."
"Augusta jeweler Jim Jennings makes a habit of carrying a concealed weapon. In his line of work, with a spate of ambush-style armed jewel robberies across the Southeast packing a .357 or smaller-caliber handgun in a discreet holster makes sense."
"When he crosses the river into South Carolina, though, he can't wear that same gun when he leaves his car." ... |
FL: Slaying prompts Sarasota newspaper to reject gun ads (another report)
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"The Sarasota Herald-Tribune will begin rejecting classified ads for firearms after police say a man used a gun he bought through one of the ads to fatally shoot his estranged wife."
"Beginning Oct. 1, the paper will only accept classified advertising for collectible antique firearms manufactured before 1898, and those ads must be published under the 'Antiques' or 'Collectibles' heading. The "Guns & Rifles" category will be eliminated."
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Fewer Guns in Africa
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"The 2003 Small Arms Survey shows that there are an estimated 30 million small arms in circulation in Africa, less than previous estimates of 100 million."
"The survey by the Small Arms Survey organization in Geneva also said that armed conflict on the continent is on the decline."
" 'The prospects of combating the problem of small-arms proliferation and misuse in Africa might be more positive than generally assumed,' the report said."
"Authorities in nations throughout Africa have been working to curb the spread of small arms. Semi-automatic rifles and handguns have been confiscated from citizens and destroyed."
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More disarmed victims. The farmers being attacked by mobs need more arms, not less. |
CA: Trial begins for guards in California prison rape incident
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"Lawyers delivered opening statements Wednesday in a trial in which an inmate claims prison guards punished him by setting up his rape by a convicted murderer who was so notorious for abuse that he was known as the 'Booty Bandit.' "
"Eddie Webb Dillard claims three guards violated his civil rights by setting up the rapes over two days in March 1993 to punish him for kicking a guard at another prison. Dillard alleges the guards - Robert Decker, Joe Sanchez and Anthony Sylva - and now-retired prison medical assistant Kathy Horton-Plant then orchestrated a cover-up by refusing to take him to a hospital and by not filing internal medical reports." ...
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"There are a number of misconceptions about the Free State Project running rampant on the net. I hold no office with the FSP, but I am a member with a good understanding of the project and its goals. I propose to correct these misconceptions, both in a probably futile attempt to clean up our image some, as well as in hopes of inducing a few Liberty-minded folks who were unsure about the project to get off the fence and join us." ... |
GOP Lawmaker Refutes Ashcroft on Libraries (another report)
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"Attorney General John Ashcroft may be mistaken in his assurances that FBI agents haven't used their Patriot Act powers to ask for library records, a Republican lawmaker said Wednesday."
[Translation: He lied]
"Rep. C.L. 'Butch' Otter, R-Idaho, one of the strongest opponents of the Patriot Act, offered no proof but said, 'There may be agents out there who have asked for this information that, quite frankly, the head of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., is unaware of.' " ...
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"Why We Hate Bush" - Lefties with some valid points
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... "Fear breeds hatred, and Bush's policies create a lot of both. U.S. citizens like Jose Padilla and Yasser Hamdi disappear into the night, never to be heard from again. A concentration camp rises at Guant�namo. Stasi-like spies tap our phones and read our mail; thanks to the ironically-named Patriot Act, these thugs don't even need a warrant. As individual rights are trampled, corporate profits are sacrosanct. An aggressive, expansionist military invades other nations 'preemptively' to eliminate the threat of non-existent weapons, and American troops die to enrich a company that buys off the Vice President." ... |
ID: Congressman Otter Attempts To Curtail Powers Of Patriot Act
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What you read could become known to the federal government, and citizens calling themselves The Boise Patriots don't like it according to Gwen Sanchirico a spokesperson for the group. "Everybody is saying 'oh we won't use it in a bad way. We are not going to violate anyone's constitutional rights.' But the possibility is there."
But Idaho Congressman Butch Otter believes government snooping for library reading lists is going too far. "I have an expectation of privacy there. And as a result of that, that privacy is violated and thus my fourth amendment rights..." |
Library-spying law useless, needs to go [Second story on page]
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"LAST WEEK IT WAS REPORTED that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft revealed the federal government has never used a provision of the Patriot Act that allows federal agents to examine the reading habits of library patrons."
"That's certainly good news. It would be nice to think that Section 215 of the act hasn't been used because there is no one planning violent acts against the U.S. and its residents. Unfortunately, that's probably not true. What's more likely is that the provision hasn't been used because it's not a particularly good anti-terrorism tool."
"But the law is remarkably effective at opening the door to abuse by federal agents and causing ordinary Americans to fear their government is spying on them." ... |
MA: State Rep. Khan feels sting of Patriot Act
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"For state Rep. Kay Khan, a Lower Falls resident, the Constitutional debate over the Patriot Act's expansion of law-enforcement surveillance powers is no abstraction."
"The Newton Democrat suspects the controversial law may be the reason a $300 transaction she tried to make in June was flagged by a bank in Salem."
"In an interview this week, Khan described how she went to Fleet Bank, where she's had an account for 37 years, and filled out the forms to wire the $300 to a relative. She discovered a few days later that it never reached its destination, and after some digging, found that the receiving bank didn't accept the money because 'they hadn't received enough information - whatever that means,' said Khan." ... |
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