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Subject: Congressional nasties...
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Date: 4 Feb 91 11:29:39 GMT
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congressional bill would suspend constitution, declare martial law

(from mondo 2000, winter 1991)

      A new bill, HR 4079, co-sponsored by Representative Newt Gingrich and [*Texas*
] Senator Phil Gramm, would open the way for American concentration camps to be buil
t, and thereafter permit the state to round up _suspected_ drug users and force them
 to work without compensation for the state. 
      The bill proposes suspending the Constitution for five years so that millions 
of illegal drug users could be held by the state in concentration camps. All interne
es would be forced to work and if anyone is caught with drugs in the camps, they wou
ld have one year added to their sentence each time -- with no right to appeal.
      HR 4079 calls for declaration of a five-year national state of emergency -- in
 essence martial law. It proposes reopening the Japanese Internment Camps used durin
g WWII, using active and inactive military bases as prisons, and instituting a new p
rivately owned prison system as well. To aid in accomplishing this, the 4th Amendmen
t, the 8th Amendment, and habeas corpus are to be either superseded, redefined, or d
isallowed. A provision has been built in to allow the government to purchase goods m
anufactured by prison slave labor. To ensure the duration of this labor force, all p
revious maximum sentences would be changed to minimum sentences. New mandatory sente
nces would be applied, and probation, parole, and suspension of sentences revoked.
      To provide an even greater pool to draw from, mandatory drug testing of just a
bout everyone above junior high school level has been included in the bill. However,
 the resolution carefully avoids addressing the necessary funding.
      Although press releases regarding the bill were sent out to all the national a
nd local news outlets by the Maryland Libertarian Party, there has been practically 
no mention of this bill in the media.  The state evidently is hoping to sweep this b
ill into law right under our noses while we are all preoccupied with other events ta
king place around the world.
      Everyone needs to make phone calls and write letters. Direct your corresponden
ce to the media and your representatives as well as Gingrich and Gramm. If they don'
t think you care about this bill becoming law--it will! Act now or cry behind the ba
rbed wire later.
(reproduced from the July 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS)

[Mondo 2000's] Editor's note: The number of the bill, once again, is HR 4079 and thi
s report is NOT exaggerating. Look it up.


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Thanks, and you're welcome.

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