Ohio's would-be Patriot Act

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[br />WHILE Congress debates whether to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act, Ohio lawmakers are quietly - and unnecessarily - creating a state counterpart of the draconian anti-terrorist law.

The legislation, substitute Senate Bill 9, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Jacobson, a Dayton-area Republican, would waste state resources by duplicating federal anti-terrorism laws, make Ohioans less free than they are now, and would do little or nothing to actually make anyone safer from terrorists.

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New police powers conferred under the bill would give local authorities nearly free rein to stop, question, and arrest anyone at almost any time, and would broadly target immigrants by requiring state officials to report "suspected aliens" to federal immigration officials.

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Applicants for any state license except a driver's license would be denied and could be charged with a felony if they failed (or refused) to swear that they had not given "material assistance" to any organization on the U.S. State Department's terrorism exclusion list.

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Personally, after reading this article it's a terrifying prospect they are proposing. This reeks of McCarthyism and Fascism in so many ways that we would be nothing more than bodies paying taxes with no rights of our own. The actions proposed are completely unconstitutional and go well beyond any liberties that don't resemble World War 2 Germany for rights the police have to sieze, detain and control every citizen in this state.

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1. Election protection--2006 style.

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2. the plan to rig the 2006 elections unfolds n/t