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	Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, also known as The Patriot Act II, Son of Patriot, and various other similar names is draft legislation written by John Ashcroft's Department of Justice.
		United States citizens whom the government finds to be either members of, or providing material support to, terrorist groups could have their US citizenship revoked and be deported to foreign countries.
		The ACLU has been a vocal opponent of the PATRIOT Act of 2001, the proposed (as of 2003) PATRIOT 2 Act, and associated legislation made in response to the threat of domestic terrorism, that it believes violates either the letter and/or the spirit of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domestic_Security_Enhancement_Act_of_2003 (741 words)

	Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 - Reclaim Democracy.org
		The Justice Department's plans for a "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003" were revealed only through a Department insider leaking the document to the watchdog group Center for Public Integrity.
		The Act refers to such information as "a roadmap for terrorists." The result: you'll have to trust the Bush Environmental Protection Agency to disclose any corporate activities that pose a threat to you and your family.
		Since the 2001 "Patriot Act" redefined "terrorist activity" so broadly that minor vandalism could qualify, donating to a nonprofit organization that, unknown to you, is on Ashcroft's disfavored list could end your life as an American citizen and resident.
	reclaimdemocracy.org /civil_rights/govpower_enhancement_act.html (1103 words)

	Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003
		The dangers posed to the national security by such persons may be comparable to those posed by international terrorists, and national security letters should likewise be an available tool in the investigation of their criminal activities.
		The continuing danger posed to the national security by such persons may be no less than that posed by the direct perpetrators of terrorist violence, and the courts should be afforded the same degree of discretion in prescribing postrelease supervision in their cases.
		The continuing danger posed to the national security by such persons may be no less than that posed by the direct perpetrators of terrorist violence, and they should not be entitled to permanent immunity from prosecution merely because they have succeeded in avoiding identification and apprehension for some period of time.
	www.dlncoalition.org /patext.htm (12046 words)

	Section-by-Section Analysis of Justice Department Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003,” also known as ...
		These so-called “national security wiretaps” and other covert surveillance were undertaken without any court supervision and without even the slightest suspicion that the targets of such surveillance were involved in criminal activities or were acting on behalf of any foreign government or political organization.
		The USA PATRIOT Act gave the government authority to issue nationwide search warrants in terrorism investigations, based on the extremely broad definition of domestic and international terrorism contained in 18 U.S.C. This definition covers any violation of law, state or federal, that involves “acts dangerous to human life” and is committed with the requisite intent.
		Only acts that indicate such a desire to relinquish American nationality can be made the basis for a finding that strips an American of his or her citizenship.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article1524.htm (12163 words)

	EFF: Patriot ACT II Analysis
		With the full effect of the USA Patriot Act (USAPA) on civil liberties in the United States still unknown, and without a shred of evidence that USAPA was required to help fight terrorism, the Bush Administration has been preparing a second piece of legislation.
		Tentatively titled the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003," it was instantly dubbed Patriot II or Son of Patriot.
		It creates the spectre of sentence enhancements for business travelers who use VPN systems to gain access to their data remotely or those who use file-sharing systems that utilize cryptography to protect the contents of a file.
	www.eff.org /Censorship/Terrorism_militias/patriot-act-II-analysis.php (5733 words)

	Citizens for Legitimate Government
		In Keith, the court noted that, with respect to surveillance in domestic security cases, "the time and reporting requirements need not be so strict as those in § 2518." Id. at 323.
		This section is primarily concerned with correcting problems and weaknesses in provisions authorizing the use of "national security letters." In substance, national security letters are administrative subpoenas that may be issued by FBI officials-or in some instances, other authorized government officials-to obtain specified types of records or information for use in national security investigations.
		The limitation to international terrorism in existing law is an impediment to the effective use of national security letters because it may not be apparent in the early stages of a terrorism investigation-or even after it has continued for some time-whether domestic or international terrorism is involved.
	www.legitgov.org /patriot_act_II_021003.html (12536 words)

	Brief Analysis - Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003
		The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum.
		The intentions of the White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented passage of the first Patriot Act.
		The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.
	www.thepowerhour.com /news/patriotact_2003.htm (1859 words)

	The Police State Enhancement Act of 2003. Bush Administration begins work on secretive sequel to the USA PATRIOT Act
		The full, 120-page "not for circulation" text of the proposed Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 (DSEA), dated January 9, 2003, is available online at the CPI website, or at Moyers' website.
		Like the USA PATRIOT and the Homeland Security bills before it, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 is packed, in virtually every paragraph, with repugnant and terrifying details that would have the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
		Under the Police State Enhancement Act of 2003, people can be taken, and shot, but may have to wait a while before their bullet arrives because of all the paperwork involved.
	foi.missouri.edu /domsecenhanceact/policestate.html (1450 words)

	Brief Analysis - Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003 Also Known As USA Patriot Act II
		William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President Bush was "seizing dictatorial control." On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
		Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our society.
		SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act.
	www.rense.com /general59/brief.htm (1736 words)

	Patriot II Draft Legislation, 9 January 2003
		This section is primarily concerned with correcting problems and weaknesses in provisions authorizing the use of "national security letters." In substance, national security letters are administrative subpoenas that may be issued by FBI officials--or in some instances, other authorized government officials-to obtain specified types of records or information for use in national security investigations.
		Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. (r), requires private companies that use potentially dangerous chemicals to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency a "worst case scenario" report detailing what would be the impact on the surrounding community of release of the specified chemicals.
		Subsection (b) codifies section 316(a)-(c) of that Act as 18 U.S.C. Subsection (c) adds explicit language covering conspiracies to two offenses likely to be committed by terrorists (18 U.S.C. and 1366), conforming to section 811 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which added conspiracy language to other terrorism offense provisions.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/PA2draft.html (12180 words)

	Patriot Act II - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		2 Or is it the "Stealth Act of 2003"?
		Or is it the "Stealth Act of 2003"?
		The Act was "signed one Saturday morning in the stealthy shadows of media elation over the capture of Saddam Hussein.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Patriot_Act_II (958 words)

	Bill Moyers interview Chuck Lewis on Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003
		That act in 2001, they had six weeks, which was not a lot of time to throw something together.
		If these plants have bad security or they're not being well run and they're actually unsafe it's usually exposing it and talking about it and the public being aware of it that ends up improving the plant or the facility or whatever it is.
		I mean the realm between public and private, between foreign and domestic, all these things have morphed into the citizen against all of this out there — this morass of regulations and rules and intrusions.
	www.refuseandresist.org /police_state/art.php?aid=605 (3060 words)

	Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order -- The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of ...
		On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
		S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an authoritarian society.
		The Patriot Act II bill itself is stamped "Confidential -Not for Distribution." Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation.
	www.infowars.com /print/patriot_act/alexs_analysis.htm (2429 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Breaking News \| PBS
		In this Rand Corporation publication, the organization analyzes the security threats facing the U.S. and helps to clarify the U.S. Army's core responsibilities in preventing and responding to attacks on the U.S. homeland.
		In this essay, C. Rossi responds to Homeland Security head Tom Ridges' attempt to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
		The Posse Comitatus Act barred the U.S. military from serving as a civilian police force, effectively protecting the right of states and local communities to police themselves.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/lewis.html (896 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		To the contrary, both the Patriot Act and the new Domestic Security Enhancement Act, have degraded our national ability to be responsive to terrorism by exposing even citizens interested in informing the government of possible terrorist activities to arbitrary surveillance and possible prosecution.
		After the passage of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, nobody in their right mind--not and risk the arbitrary cancellation of one’s citizenship for having innocently contributed to the organization in the first place.
		The new act is not intended to prevent terrorism, not if we are to take the president at his word.
	www.unknowncountry.com /journal/?id=117 (2646 words)

	Political Parrhesia: Fight the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003
		Then read George Paine's description on his Warblogging.com of the proposed Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
		He is now just finishing up the draft for "Patriot Act II", officially known as the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
		This new law, Patriot Act II, would give the government "broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement perogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information," says the Center for Public Integrity in this article.
	www.cheslog.com /craig/parrhesia/archives/001149.html (264 words)

	The Police State Enhancement Act of 2003 (February 12, 2003)
		The full, 120-page "not for circulation" text of the proposed Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 (DSEA), dated January 9, 2003, is available online at the web site of CPI (www.publicintegrity.org), or at Moyers' web site (www.pbs.org/now/).
		All in all, the only individuals whose behavior is earning them the title of people officially at war with the United States--and all it has stood for--work in the Bush administration itself.
		Tell them that if they pass this legislation, and then say something critical or vote the "wrong" way on some future day, it could just as easily be them who are taken out back and shot.
	eatthestate.org /07-12/PoliceStateEnhancement.htm (1094 words)

	PATRIOT Act II Draft Legislation - Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 - Now Available in HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Then, when you look at the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, you realize that what this represents is likely not a wish list that they are going to trim down, but rather, a starting point that they are going to add even more abusive powers to.
		According to him, the Patriot Act and the HSA are full of holes that the government could easily exploit and he is certain that he could defend the government position in court for years, even though he would eventually lose the case,
		Did anyone happen to notice that the date of the draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 is exactly the same day, (January 9, 2003), that Senate Bill S-22 was introduced into Congress, (Congressional Record, page S136).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/840165/posts (4576 words)

	DOMESTIC SECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2003 SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS
		Considering all the B.S. that was written about the Homeland Security Act, I'll wait until I see what Justice actually submits.
		If I had listened to William Safire about the Homeland Security Act, I would believe that the act created all the legal and funding mechanisms for TIA, when it did nothing of the sort - instead, the Homeland Security Act was a turning point for federal overreaction and legislative exploitation after 9/11.
		There was a thread not long ago from another fringe group (Mrecola.com I think) screaming that the Patriot act was going to force everyone to be vaccinated and abolish any religious exemptions.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/840073/posts (2282 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Says New Ashcroft Bill Erodes Checks and Balances on Presidential Power; PATRIOT ...
		The Department of Justice has been drafting the new legislation -- called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 -- in secret over the past several months.
		Significantly, the USA PATRIOT Act broadened the definition of groups that could be so designated to potentially include domestic protest organizations such as Operation Rescue or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
		Provide an incentive for neighbor to spy on neighbor and pose problems similar to those inherent in Attorney General Ashcroft's "Operation TIPS" by granting blanket immunity to businesses that phone in false terrorism tips, even if their actions are taken with reckless disregard for the truth.
	www.aclu.org /SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11817&c=206 (862 words)

	Huge Addition to Patriot Act in the Works - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bill, titled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, was written by the staff of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, and kept secret until an anonymous insider leaked a copy to a non-partisan civil rights watchdog group in Washington, DC, on Jan. 9.
		“I see it as very serious.” Under the new act, suspects can be secretly arrested and detained for an unlimited amount of time, their citizenship taken away, and brought to a top secret location overseas where laws against torture do not.
		Neither of the Patriot Acts includes a comprehensive definition of what constitutes “terrorism,”; nor any section stating that the methods of investigation now allowed are limited to matters of national security.
	www.guilfordian.com /news/2003/04/18/News/Huge-Addition.To.Patriot.Act.In.The.Works-426138.shtml (500 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Interested Persons Memo: Section-by-Section Analysis of Justice Department draft ...
		Further criminalizing association - without any intent to commit specific terrorism crimes - by broadening the crime of providing material support to terrorism, even if support is not given to any organization listed as a terrorist organization by the government.
		The USA PATRIOT Act abolished the "primary purpose" test - the requirement that FISA surveillance could only be used if the primary purpose of surveillance was gathering of foreign intelligence, and not criminal prosecution or some other purpose.
		Any government official acting within the scope of his employment already enjoys "qualified immunity" from charges of violating Fourth Amendment or other constitutional rights - i.e., an official cannot be punished or held civilly liable if a reasonable government official would not have known his or her conduct was illegal.
	www.aclu.org /SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11835&c=206 (3312 words)

	Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is preparing to expand the 2001 Patriot Act to increase surveillance within the United States while restricting access to information and limiting judicial review, a nonprofit government watchdog group asserted Friday.
		The original Patriot Act, passed by Congress in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, gave the government broad new anti-terrorism powers to use wiretaps, electronic and computer eavesdropping, searches and the authority to obtain a wide range of other information in it's investigations.
		According to the Center for Public Integrity, the draft expansion of the Patriot Act would be called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.
	www.foodnotbombs.net /DomesticSecurity.html (483 words)

	Pathfinder: Terrorism - Attack & Aftermath
		This independent agency conducts research on the "social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security." Here CDI staff provide in-depth analysis and facts on the military, security and foreign policy challenges related to terrorism.
		The site "exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known," especially, "material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget)." This gadfly won't let us.
		See also the non-partisan Center For Public Integrity's report on the Justice Dept.'s draft "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003," aka Patriot 2.
	www.lkwdpl.org /currentevents (2222 words)

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