hr 1955 borders unconstitutional

HR 1955 treads a fine line, and this type of legislation is ultimately stomping on our consitiution, the question that should be answered before this type of legislation should be passed, is what evidence supports ths rise of ie ~islamic jihad in the US, and does a separate mechanism need to be created for identifying that inside this country, the USA :D

2 new digg posts, you can goto after reading/skimming my full blog post

http://digg.com/politics/Kucinich_believes_HR_1955_is_unconstitutional

=>   http://www.indypendent.org/2007/12/02/kucinich-on-hr-1955/  

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Have_we_reached_the_9th_of_10_steps_to_close_down_a_free_society_w_HR1955  

=>  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html
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              and while we're at it, here is a ~side idea, and timely link, you can goto after reading/skimming this full blog post:

              republicans have been trying to split only CA's electoral votes. singer a billionare for guiliani is behind it, wiki doesnt have anything interesting on him, and shwarznegar vetoed legislation to prohibit this, according to a digg comment, thus the effort continues, I suppose.

              http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Republicans_are_Rigging_the_2008_Election

              =>   http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/341868_rigged02.html?source=mypi

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the bill was  Introduced: Apr 19, 2007
Sponsor: Rep. Jane Harman [D-CA]

passed congress recently with only 5 nay, including Kucinich

the 3rd clause, amended in, is the only bright spot protection, a mere few words

here is the summary

4/19/2007--Introduced.
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to add provisions concerning the prevention of homegrown terrorism (terrorism by individuals born, raised, or based and operating primarily in the United States).
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) establish a grant program to prevent radicalization (use of an extremist belief system for facilitating ideologically-based violence) and homegrown terrorism in the United States; (2) establish or designate a university-based Center of Excellence for the Study of Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States; and (3) conduct a survey of methodologies implemented by foreign nations to prevent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.
Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism from violating the constitutional and civil rights, and civil liberties, of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.

click full text to read, its short. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1955



a duplicate bill, that can be found on the link above, without the 3rd clause introduced by

Introduced: Aug 2, 2007
Sponsor: Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

has not been voted on, and has no cosponsors

perhaps, introduced to force the first bill to pass, is that how they roll, I dont know.


I'm not good with legislation and the legislative process, so any thoughts would help me.

reading the legislation, ie

`(c) Composition of Commission- The Commission shall be composed of 10 members appointed for the life of the Commission, of whom--

`(1) one member shall be appointed by the President from among officers or employees of the executive branch and private citizens of the United States;

`(2) one member shall be appointed by the Secretary;

`(3) one member shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate;

`(4) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate;

`(5) one member shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

`(6) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives;

`(7) one member shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives;

`(8) one member shall be appointed by the ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives;

`(9) one member shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and

`(10) one member shall be appointed by the ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.


:D, more fair than if declaring it all members from one party

got me thinking, why not create a field called legislative science, or do they have that, eventually legislation will be crafted online, in part by the masses, here is a pdf link to a random syllabus for legislative studies http://www.msu.edu/~rohde/PLS%20824%20syllabus%20Sp%2004.pdf

i think the art of blogging might be revision, or at least having a block of time >20 min, (unless its a quick thought post of course :D) the same as prepping a paper for school, also in this example, I would argue collecting multiple, if not timely concepts from the web, in a stream, maybe adding some opinion too.

:D