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RI: Carcieri Withdraws Homeland Security Plan
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"Gov. Don Carcieri on Thursday withdrew a homeland security plan criticized by scholars and civil libertarians as a threat to free speech and assembly rights."
"The bill introduced last week would include acts of terrorism under existing law that makes it illegal to 'speak, utter, or print' statements in support of anarchy or government overthrow."
"It also would have included terrorism under current law that makes it unlawful for any person 'to teach or advocate' a government overthrow, or display 'any flag or emblem other than the flag of the United States' as preferable to the United States government." ...
"Carcieri said the negative reaction, which included criticism from the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, was overblown."
------- Overblown? Is he joking? In 1917, the Wilson administration and the people's elected representatives passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts and the Trading with the Enemy Act, meant to quash any dissent or negativity about the United States entering World War I. It imposed imprisonment on anyone making "false reports" to help the enemy - without specifying the what the standard for "falseness" might be; it empowered the Postmaster General to deny use of the mail to any publication that, in his judgment, advocated insurrection, criticized the government or the laws of the United States, allowed him to deny mail to any person, who, in his opinion, circulated "seditious" material, and gave him censorship authority over the foreign language press; it censored all international communications; and it forbade disloyal or abusive remarks about the form of government, flag or military uniform of the United States. More than 2,000 people were prosecuted under the aforementioned statutes, and 1,055 were convicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
And he thinks concerns were overblown? No, they were firmly based in history. |
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