June 10, 2005
"H.R.1528 Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005" or peddling children for fascism's sake
by Liza Sabater
Repeat after me : Hitler was voted into office.
I am putting this up as a full post because, I am quite flabbergasted. What the H.R.1528
Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005 says is that you would be if anybody close to you --even, maybe a casual acquaintance at work-- is found to be using an illegal drug; you'd have the burden of proving you did not willingly aid and abet WITH YOUR ACQUAINTANCESHIP such "criminal" behaviour.
I wanna be like ... Adolf!
AlterNet: DrugReporter: Spy vs. Spy Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.
Here's how the "spy" section of the legislation works: If you "witness" certain drug offenses taking place or "learn" about them, you must report the offenses to law enforcement within 24 hours and provide "full assistance in the investigation, apprehension and prosecution" of the people involved. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Shameless. Absolutely shameless.
Posted by Liza Sabater in Fascism
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