Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Freedom of speech and the threat of HR 1955



The video production itself is kind of cheesy but it's content is very real.

In essence, HR 1955 (the violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention act, which passed with an amazing 404 to 6) would not only make a stereotypical terrorist act illegal, [b]but[/b] protesting against government ideas could be perceived as terrorist acts, intellectual discussions i.e. websites, blogs, etc., terrorist acts, political groups, anti war groups, peace groups, etc. etc. to be a terrorist acts; [b]anything[/b] and [b]everything[/b] the government wishes to classify as a terrorist act would be so under HR 1955. This is a blatant attack on the First Amendment!

Fascism is slowly creeping into our democracy, little by little and, as I've stated before, soon our rights to change government "attacks" such as HR 1955 will no longer exist and we'll be powerless to stop anything and will be subject to everything.

When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. ~Sinclair Lewis