"Lone terrorist" bill

[Harmon Seaver]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:12:25PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 12:05  PM, Eric Murray wrote:
> 
> >WTF is a "lone terrorist"?
> >
> >http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny- 
> >ussena093214085apr09,0,3864424.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
> >
> >"A bill to expand the ability of the government to conduct wiretaps
> >and other surveillance on suspected lone terrorists has attracted
> >controversial amendments that have stalled its advance to the full  
> >Senate.
> >...
> >Reading down it looks like a "lone terrorist" is someone
> >that the government can't even prove is a "terrorist"
> >to the secret FISA rubberstamp court.  So this is presumeably
> >an attempt to bypass FISA entirely.
> 
> They claim to no longer need to prove that a person was planning a  
> terrorist act. They claim that merely having terrorist tools is enough.
> 
> There are several pending examples of this, discussed here. One guy up  
> in the Northwest is facing terrorism charges for possibly thinking  
> about possibly making ricin, possibly to poison his wife. No, I'm not  
> talking about Jim Bell. Here's a URL:
> 
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2542993,00.html>
> 
> "Olsen would face life in prison if convicted of the federal charge of  
> possession of a biological agent or toxin for use as a weapon. "

   Holy shit -- a cigarette falls under that classification. There's enough
nicotine in one to kill anyone if simply extracted. 



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