ACLU Says Critical Changes to Patriot Act Still Needed

Please call your members of Congress and let them know you don't want
the abomination mis-known as the Patriot Act renewed:

Capitol Switchboard Phone Numbers: 202-224-3121 Also: 888-818-6641,
888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)


More on the Patriot renewal....

Apparently DiFi backs this because she got her tiny little amendment
added in, one to make cold rememdies harder to get (!). See
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/10/national/w145944S77.DTL
for the details.

http://aclu.org/safefree/general/24131prs20060209.html
ACLU Says Critical Changes to Patriot Act Still Needed, Modest But
Meaningful Reforms Would Better Protect Freedom and Privacy (2/9/2006)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Media [at] dcaclu.org

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed
disappointment at the announcement of a deal between the White House
and key lawmakers to reauthorize the Patriot Act without the most
needed changes to protect freedom and privacy. Just last week, the act
was extended until March 10, 2006 to allow more time for debate and
negotiations.


"Serious problems remain in the Patriot Act thatrequire serious
reforms," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington
Legislative Office. "Unfortunately, the proposed changes to the
reauthorization bill do not correct the secret record search powers and
do not require that there be any individualized suspicion of wrongdoing
by Americans before their financial, medical, library or other records
can be searched. Common sense reforms could have required that records
sought be connected to a suspected terrorist or terrorist organization.
We will continue to press for these and other needed reforms to protect
American freedoms."


Mark Hull-Richter, U.S. Citizen & Patriot
U.S.A. - From democracy to kakistocracy in one fell coup.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
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