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				patriot act 2. the sequel.
			 
 Here are some of the the sections of the leaked new top secret patriot act 2.  gives George near dictatorial power and throws whats left of your personal freedoms out the window. read em and weep:
 SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the
 Bush administration'?s enemy combatant definition to
 all American citizens who may have violated any
 provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act.
 (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic
 terrorism, and the definition is any action that
 endangers human life that is a violation of any
 Federal or State law. ) Section 501 of the second
 Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the
 same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that
 the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA
 Patriot Act isn?t broad enough and that a new,
 unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.
 
 Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful
 activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown
 into a van never to be seen again. The Justice
 Department states that they can do this because the
 person had inferred from conduct that they were not a
 US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA
 Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or
 State law can result in the enemy combatant terrorist
 designation.
 
 SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a
 criminal act for any member of the government or any
 citizen to release any information concerning the
 incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also
 states that law enforcement does not even have to tell
 the press who they have arrested and they never have
 to release the names.
 
 SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification
 Database) set up a national database of suspected
 terrorists and radically expand the database to
 include anyone associated with suspected terrorist
 groups and anyone involved in crimes or having
 supported any group designated as terrorist. These
 sections also set up a national DNA database for
 anyone on probation or who has been on probation for
 any crime, and orders State governments to collect the
 DNA for the Federal government.
 
 SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging
 in spying operations against the American people and
 would place substantial restrictions on court
 injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights
 across the board.
 
 SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as
 foreign powers and again strip them of all rights
 under the enemy combatant designation.
 
 SECTION 102 states clearly that any information
 gathering, regardless of whether or not those
 activities are illegal, can be considered to be
 clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign
 power. This makes news gathering illegal.
 
 SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use
 wartime martial law powers domestically and
 internationally without Congress declaring that a
 state of war exists.
 
 SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its
 straightforwardness. It states that broad general
 warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret
 judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes
 in an undisclosed location) granted under the first
 Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that
 government agents must be given immunity for carrying
 out searches with no prior court approval. This
 section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against
 unreasonable searches and seizures.
 
 SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue
 contempt charges against any individual or corporation
 who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This
 sections annihilate the last vestiges of the Fifth
 Amendment.
 
 SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in
 the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes
 the five year sunset clause from other subsections of
 the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told
 us: this is the New America. Get used to it. This is
 forever.
 
 SECTION 111 expands the definition of the enemy
 combatant designation.
 
 SECTION 122 restates the government?s newly announced
 power of surveillance without a court order.
 
 SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer
 needs warrants and that the investigations can be a
 giant dragnet-style sweep described in press reports
 about the Total Information Awareness Network. One
 passage reads, thus the focus of domestic surveillance
 may be less precise than that directed against more
 conventional types of crime.
 
 SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine
 the entire spectrum of public and private sector
 information from bank records to educational and
 medical records. This is the enacting law to allow
 ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to
 totally break down any and all walls of privacy.
 
 The government states that they must look at
 everything to determine if individuals or groups might
 have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now
 see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
 
 SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover
 coroners? and medical examiners operations whenever
 they see fit.
 
 SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag
 orders on Federal and State Grand Juries and to take
 over the proceedings. It also disallows individuals or
 organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena.
 So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
 
 SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower
 protection for Federal agents.
 
 SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their
 activities with toxic biological, chemical or
 radiological materials.
 
 SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all
 their financial dealings secret, and anyone
 investigating them can be considered a terrorist. This
 should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone
 investigating Haliburton.
 
 SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected
 terrorists. The database will also be used to stop
 other unlawful activities. It will share the
 information with state, local and foreign agencies for
 the same purposes.
 
 SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department
 in the area of information sharing.
 
 SECTION 313 provides liability protection for
 businesses, especially big businesses that spy on
 their customers for Homeland Security, violating their
 privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are
 all preventative measures â?? has anyone seen Minority
 Report? This is the access hub for the Total
 Information Awareness Network.
 
 SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on
 the American people and to share information with
 foreign governments.
 
 SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition
 process and allows officers of the Homeland Security
 complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they
 wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly
 take individuals out of foreign countries.
 
 SECTION 402 is titled Providing Material Support to
 Terrorism. The section reads that there is no
 requirement to show that the individual even had the
 intent to aid terrorists.
 
 SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass
 destruction to include any activity that affects
 interstate or foreign commerce.
 
 SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or other
 criminals to use encryption in the commission of a
 crime.
 
 SECTION 408 creates lifetime parole (basically,
 slavery) for a whole host of crimes.
 
 SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for
 anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports
 terrorists. Remember: any crime is now considered
 terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
 
 SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by
 death. Again, they point to Section 802 of the first
 Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or
 support of terrorist act can result in the death
 penalty.
 
 SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist
 financing. This section states that any type of
 financial activity connected to terrorism will result
 to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
 
 SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for
 anyone engaging in terrorist activities.
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