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US
Senate Votes Against Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
BIG
BROTHER WATCH: ILLINOIS launches compulsory mental health screening for children
and pregnant women
"The
American tradition of parents deciding what is best for their children is, yet
again, under attack. The pharmaceutical industry has convinced President
Bush to support mandatory mental-health screening for every child in America,
including preschool children, and the industry is now working to convince
Congress as well. But mandatory screening alone is not what the
pharmaceutical industry wants. The real payoff for the drug companies is
the forced drugging of children that will result – as we learned tragically
with Ritalin – even when parents refuse."
LIFE
WITH BIG BROTHER: Bush to screen population for mental illness
Talking
Points on Mental Health Initiatives – Problems with Screening and Drugging
President's
new freedom: Commission on Mental Health
Attorney General John
Ashcroft has repeatedly
rebuffed requests by Congress and public interest groups for basic
information about how the Patriot Act is being used. Now – in a cynical public
relations ploy – Ashcroft has released a thirty-page
piece of propaganda wrapped in the guise of public disclosure. The document
does not contain information needed for members of Congress to make an informed
decision about whether to extend provisions which expire in 2005. Instead, it
avoids key issues, distorts basic law and presents a self-serving selection of
Patriot Act "successes." Sign
the petition calling for the removal of John Ashcroft.
Biometrics
- great hope for world security or triumph for Big Brother?
THEATER
OWNERS receiving DEATH THREATS so as not to show Fahrenheit 911.
The
US released more than two dozen prisoners from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year
after Pentagon lawyers determined that some had been detained wrongly for as
long as two years. 6/21
Rumsfeld
ordered secret detention of Iraqi suspect
Jurors
mull hate crime charges in murder of transgender teen
Section-by-Section
Analysis of Justice Department draft Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003,
also known as PATRIOT Act II
Patriot
Act Used for Non-Terror Investigations
Bill of Rights Defence
Committee
Ashcroft
Defied on City Hall Steps As New Yorkers living in the city most
affected by September 11, we acknowledge the need to protect our safety, but as
people who prize our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we believe it is
impermissible to suspend freedom in the name of preserving it. — New York Bill
of Rights Defense Campaign leaflet, New York City Hall, May 28 more
Your
Rights: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em--May 30, 2003
U.S.
Report Says Sept. 11 Detentions 'Unduly Harsh'--June 2, 2003 WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Foreigners detained as part of the investigation into the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks on the United States were held too long without being told of
charges against them and were subjected to "unduly harsh" conditions
of confinement, a Justice Department audit showed on Monday.more
Locked
Up in Land of the Free--June 1, 2003
With a record-setting 2 million people locked up in American jails and prisons,
the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its
citizens behind bars than any other country. read
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