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| Lephaid |
...Yup, it's another crazy America drug law on par with the Reducing America's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act!
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Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.
Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.
Here's how the "spy" section of the legislation works: If you "witness" certain drug offenses taking place or "learn" about them, you must report the offenses to law enforcement within 24 hours and provide "full assistance in the investigation, apprehension and prosecution" of the people involved. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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Email and inform your representatives about this act at http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/...ep=2&item=26179 |
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| fuct4less |
| Considering our current financial bindings, how ever would we be able to afford this? Moreover, how, praytell, would we enforce such a law? |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by fuct4less
Considering our current financial bindings, how ever would we be able to afford this? Moreover, how, praytell, would we enforce such a law? |
I doubt they'll enforce it. It's just something extra they can charge you with when they catch you with drugs. |
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