[Peace-discuss] Fwd: SAFE Act Support Needed - ACLU Message

[Alfred Kagan]

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>
>From: Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU
>To: ACLU Action Network Members
>Date: February 3, 2004
>
>Despite an unprecedented public relations offensive by
>Attorney General
>Ashcroft and a veto threat from the White House,
>Congress is moving
>toward revising the Patriot Actís most dangerous
>provisions. 
>
>Buoyed by the groundswell of opposition -- more than
>245 communities
>and 3 states have passed resolutions in opposition to
>the PATRIOT Act --
>momentum is building for legislation that would
>correct PATRIOT Act
>provisions that allow for unwarranted investigations
>of personal records,
>authorize secret ìsneak and peekî searches and roll
>back judicial
>oversight.
>
>This corrective legislation -- the SAFE Act -- would
>not repeal
>commonsense provisions in the PATRIOT Act, but would
>instead revise those
>provisions that infringe on our civil liberties
>without making us any
>safer. Yet even this modest bill drew the wrath of
>Attorney General Ashcroft
>who falsely said that it would, ìmake it even more
>difficult to mount
>an effective anti-terror campaign than it was before
>the Patriot Act was
>passed."
>
>Take Action!  Tell your Members of Congress to
>cosponsor the SAFE Act
>so we can be both safe and free.
>
>Click here for more information and to send a free fax
>to your Members
>of Congress:
>
>http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13907&c=24
>
>
>
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>Head of Adult & Young Adult Services
>Englewood Public Library
>Englewood, NJ 07631
>201-568-2215, ext 229
>ALA Councilor-At-Large
>
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Al Kagan
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