SAFE Act

Oh brother.

Anyway, it's a positive step after so many backwards ones.

From the ACLU:

Despite an unprecedented public relations offensive by Attorney General Ashcroft and a veto threat from the White House, Congress is moving toward revising the Patriot Act’s most dangerous provisions.

Buoyed by the groundswell of opposition -- more than 245 communities and 3 states have passed resolutions in opposition to the PATRIOT Act -- momentum is building for legislation that would correct PATRIOT Act provisions that allow for unwarranted investigations of personal records, authorize secret “sneak and peek” searches and roll back judicial oversight.

This corrective legislation -- the SAFE Act -- would not repeal commonsense provisions in the PATRIOT Act, but would instead revise those provisions that infringe on our civil liberties without making us any safer. Yet even this modest bill drew the wrath of Attorney General Ashcroft who falsely said that it would, “make it even more difficult to mount an effective anti-terror campaign than it was before the Patriot Act was passed."

If you want to give Congress a little backbone, because lord knows they could use it, go to this ACLU page for more info and to send a free fax to Congress.

http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13907&c=24

And then, let's get rid of AssKKKroft.

People v. Ashcroft   Remove Att'y General John Ashcroft