House update on anti-terror bills: Look out
James B. DiGriz
jbdigriz at dragonsweb.org
Fri Oct 12 11:39:02 PDT 2001
mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
> Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> wrote :
>
>>From a House staffer:
>>
>>
>>>Friends, less than 20 minutes ago the House leadership announced we would
>>>be considering the Senate bill which has none of the privacy protections
>>>that Bob Barr and others worked to put in the House bill an contains
>>>language attacking financial privacy and even allowing the government
>>>expanded access to educational records. Votes on the rule are expected
>>>soon and killing the rule is the best way to kill this bill.
>>>
> Perfectly understandable actions on the part of our "representatives"
> considering that they panicked a month ago and haven't been in their
> right minds since - most of them anyway. Feingold and Barr seem to be
> more stable than the average bear.
>
> The totally infuriating part is that it will take decades to undo the
> damage they're doing in a few short weeks.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
Panicked, my foot. It's "steal candy from a baby" time.
jbdigriz
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