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Earlier this week, Green Jenni posted an article on the Bush Administrations tactic of pushing fear on American Citizens.

Today a newsletter from the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) came to me, called “Dissent is Patriotic”. In it was this piece:

Warrantless Wiretapping and the Alleged London Plot

Fear has been used to justify many changes that have diminished civil liberties and to prevent meaningful changes to restore them.
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Yesterday in local radio news it was announced repeatedly throughout the day that police in Salt Lake would be stopping every motorist between certain streets from 10pm to 3am last night. This was a court-approved stop and search and it was publicized that each driver would be asked for their ID and that police would also be searching for DUI’s.

My suspicion is that the DUI excuse is just that – an excuse. I see this as an experiment towards future stop and searches, using Utah as the baseline. “Your papers, please” will become the standard request from officials at mandatory checkpoints.

I hope I am wrong, but somehow I don’t think so. Look at who is controlling our country, the Patriot Act, the military recruiting clause in the No Child Left Behind Act, and other measures that have been instituted since the reign of King George.

This is an Action Alert from the Bill of Rights Defense Committee:

Today please join the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and tens of thousands of allies throughout the U.S. in an overwhelming grassroots response to NSA warrantless surveillance and data mining of our telephone records. The BORDC, the ACLU, People For the American Way, and other organizations (see below) have declared this week “National Call-in to Congress Week” and are asking people to call their members of Congress on a specific day. Let’s keep those phones ringing in the Congressional halls all week long!

What to do:
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I have had my cell phone service with Working Assets for a few years now. The primary reason for changing my service to WA is because of the company’s phiolophies on social justice causes. Each month you can “round up” your payment on your bill. The extra cents you contribute will go to that month’s causes.

WA openly supports peace, social justice, human rights, and civil liberties. WA is the only telephone company participating in the ACLU’s lawsuit against the National Security Agency. WA opposes the sale of domestic calling records to the NSA by AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon.