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Score one for civil liberties.
Federal District Judge Audrey Collins has ruled that part of Bush's beloved Patriot Act is unconstitutional.
Specifically, she said that the section banning expert advice and assistance to terrorist groups ran afoul of the First Amendment.
This key ruling, the first to determine any part of the Patriot Act to be off base, is a crucial victory for the millions of Americans who have been organizing against this oppressive law.
And it's another legal setback for Bush, who was in our faces during his State of the Union speech, demanding that the Patriot Act be renewed.
More than 200 cities and towns and a couple of states have now condemned the Patriot Act and ordered their local police departments not to cooperate with any unconstitutional demands that Bush or the FBI may seek in accordance with that Act.
This is grassroots activism at its finest, and it all started with a few individuals in Northampton, Massachusetts, who formed the first of the Bill of Rights Defense Committees that have cropped up all around the country.
There's a reason for this.
Bush's Patriot Act--and remember, it's Bush's, not just Ashcroft's--lets the police ransack your home and place a recording device on your computers and then leave without telling you about it. It lets law enforcement find out what books you're reading in the library. And it makes you a terrorist if you're trying to "influence the policy of a government by intimidation."
Under that definition, Martin Luther King could have been called a domestic terrorist!
Judge Collins made a courageous ruling. But that's only half the battle. The other unconstitutional parts of the Patriot Act must also go
Federal District Judge Audrey Collins has ruled that part of Bush's beloved Patriot Act is unconstitutional.
Specifically, she said that the section banning expert advice and assistance to terrorist groups ran afoul of the First Amendment.
This key ruling, the first to determine any part of the Patriot Act to be off base, is a crucial victory for the millions of Americans who have been organizing against this oppressive law.
And it's another legal setback for Bush, who was in our faces during his State of the Union speech, demanding that the Patriot Act be renewed.
More than 200 cities and towns and a couple of states have now condemned the Patriot Act and ordered their local police departments not to cooperate with any unconstitutional demands that Bush or the FBI may seek in accordance with that Act.
This is grassroots activism at its finest, and it all started with a few individuals in Northampton, Massachusetts, who formed the first of the Bill of Rights Defense Committees that have cropped up all around the country.
There's a reason for this.
Bush's Patriot Act--and remember, it's Bush's, not just Ashcroft's--lets the police ransack your home and place a recording device on your computers and then leave without telling you about it. It lets law enforcement find out what books you're reading in the library. And it makes you a terrorist if you're trying to "influence the policy of a government by intimidation."
Under that definition, Martin Luther King could have been called a domestic terrorist!
Judge Collins made a courageous ruling. But that's only half the battle. The other unconstitutional parts of the Patriot Act must also go
