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<br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">The </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 200</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Tahoma"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;"><font style="" face="Arial">7<br>passed in the House 404 to 6 in October, 2007. The only CA Rep who opposed <br>it was </font></font></font></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">Dana Rohrabacher.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Arial"> </font></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">Dennis Kucinich opposed it, reportedly saying it </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">“moves <br>to criminalize thought by giving an overly broad view of the threat of </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Arial"></font></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">homegrown <br>terrorism” and that it "says government should police ideas, not conduct.”</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial"><br></font><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5068">http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5068</a></font></p>
<br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">The Center for Constitutional Rights article "Here Come the Thought Police,"</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial"> <br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">claims the legislation could be stretched to cover someone like Rosa Parks. (1)</font><style type="text/css">
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of civil liberties in the history of our country.... </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">I have <br>stood against all these attacks on the Constitution.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">" (3) Edward's NYT </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">article <br>suggests an important difference between the two:</font><br><br> Mr. Edwards has been chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil
and<br> Constitutional Rights for more than two decades. He passed up
opportunities <br> to lead other committees so he could keep his position as
monitor of the <br> Federal Bureau of Investigation and as field marshal in
the battles over civil <br> rights. <br> <br> Mr. Edwards also turned down a
seat on the House Permanent Select <br> Committee on Intelligence. "I
thought I would be trapped by secrecy oaths, <br> and it would interfere
with my free speech," he said. <br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Arial"><br></font></font><font style="" face="Arial"><font size="3">Zoe</font></font>
<font style="" face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">serves on two subcommittess of the
Committee on Homeland Security:</font></font> <br><style type="text/css"><!--
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on Border</font></font></em><font style="" face="Arial"><font size="3">,
</font></font><em><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Maritime, and
Global Counterterrorism</font></font></em> <font style="" face="Arial"><font size="3">and
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</font></font><em><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Subcommittee on
Emerging Threats</font></font></em><font style="" face="Arial"><font size="3">,
</font></font><em><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Cybersecurity</font></font></em><font style="" face="Arial"><font size="3">,
</font></font><em><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Science and
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--> </style><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3" face="Arial">The current status of the Senate version of the Bill, SB 1959, is unclear.</font><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">(1) <a href="http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/factsheet:-violent-radicalization-and-homegrown-terrorism-prevention-act-2007">http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faqs/factsheet%3A-violent-radicalization-and-homegrown-terrorism-prevention-act-2007</a></p>
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