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More scary legislature lurking under the collective national bed. This time it's the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003, a.k.a. the VICTORY Act. The bill, apparently authored by Orrin Hatch, is ostensibly being written to address the burgeoning "narco-terror" threat. I think maybe ol' Orrin's been watching too many ONDCP commercials on this one. Please, even Arianna Huffington knows the "war on drugs" is stupid.
As one might expect, the ACLU and other constitutional watchdogs are justifiably pissed about this one. We're still trying to shake the civil liberty hangover from the reactionary (and ridiculously named) Patriot Act, just finished staring down the DOJ on Patriot II, and now there's another bill out there that will give Ashcroft the ability to wiretap anyone who doesn't want to go to his prayer meetings. Ugh.
Speaking of scary religious zealots, it turns out that there may be some other people who are less than comfortable with the blurring of church/state lines. In this case, it's the Supreme Court denying an appeal from Chief Justice Roy S. Moore. He's been instructed by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to remove his 5300-pound sculpture of the ten commandments from the rotunda of his court. Moore remains recalcitrant. Civil disobedience can be fun and all, but George Wallace wasn't that cool the first time.
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