Does Sensenbrenner sit up all night thinking up ways to put everyone

[JohnnyRingo]

in prison?

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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.

Entire Article:
http://www.alternet.org/story/22048/

This will never get out of Congress, but shouldn't the party that champions against "frivelous lawsuits" because it "wastes the court's time" stop this idiot from writing laws just because he can?

[dave502d]

1. How did this nut get in congress.n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. The party that champions against frivolous lawsuits is sponsoring

a Bill in the Florida House that will permit students attending college universities to sue their professors upon hearing anything they don't like or any grade they don't agree with.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=145x4332

I am reading Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning right now and I'm finding it emotionally challenging to get through Part I in which he talks about his concentration camp experiences. The psychology is too reminiscent of this contemporary madness.

[Pushed To The Left]

3. Sensenbrenner is one of the WORST! n/t

[undeterred]

4. Sensenbrenner is the worst person in the House

and on behalf of Wisconsin, the rest of the country has our embarassed apology. :blush:

I hope that DUers will support the campaign of Brian Kennedy, who will run against him again in 2006! :patriot:

[housewolf]

5. He must be best friends with John Poindexter & John Ashcroft

This sounds like a re-run of the "TIPS" program the Justice Dept had to scrub a couple of years ago.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Very much like TIPS....Except reporting the incident is mandatory.

If the TIPS law couldn't pass constitutional muster, why would he write a more controversial law?

[LittleClarkie]

7. Sorry, he's mine. We're working on it. We're working on it.

But the bastard is on auto-pilot. He didn't hardly have to campaign this last time. But Bryan Kennedy still got more of the vote than anyone expected him too this last election. And the kid is going to try again.

[paineinthearse]

8. It's not for "the party that champions against "frivelous lawsuits"", it's

up to the voters of his congressional district to vote the bum out!