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Amber Alert Update
Friday, April 11th, 2003Passed the House 400-25-2. Passed the Senate 98-0. In addition to Sen. Biden’s regrettable RAVE Act add-on (which was never debated), a radical overhaul of federal sentencing guidelines was also tacked on at the last minute — again without debate.
Both were shameful, cynical (and, unfortunately, successful) ploys to manipulate public fears about child kidnappings into support for items that otherwise never would have won widespread support (the RAVE Act failed by a wide margin last Congress).
A friend of mine who works for an advocacy group here in D.C. said he spoke with a staffer in Biden’s office about the RAVE Act. The staffer told him that he had nothing to fear, that the RAVE Act puts all the discretion about which clubs to bust in the hands of local law enforcement. Local officials, Biden’s staffer said, aren’t going to shut down concert venues or dance clubs that are vital to their communities.
Yes. Nothing to fear. Because local law enforcement officers never overreact to drug war hysteria.
President Bush has promised to sign the bill. When he does, we’ll have to make an ajdustment to the LibertyMeter.
I’ve also heard rumblings that the White House has renegged on a few free trade agreements (Chile, most notably) because the countries we had negotiated them with didn’t back us in the war with Iraq.
A Google search turned up nothing. If anyone has seen news reports of this, please send them my way. Holding free trade hostage to political support for war I think also merits a LibertyMeter adjustment.
oh no, local law enforcement uses the wisest discretion.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n765/a06.html
http://www.emdef.org/laws_and_cases.html#nola
Part of the reason this new version of the RAVE act was able to pass is because many of these old conservatives think that this legislation will not affect their music scene. It will only cause trouble for those nasty little ravers, punks and hippies.
Well, I think if this little bit of legislation goes all the way through, then everyone hurt by this act should MAKE it affect their music scenes! In protest, people could sneak joints into opera houses, concert halls, and John Tesh concerts… then LIGHT EM UP!!! YEEHAW!~
It might help to have someone planted who can loudly complain and insist that the venue be held responsible for their actions too.
Then the venue owners for ALL concert halls will have to be tried under the new laws and that will get everyone pissed. This would be sure to get some action happening to repeal this terrible new legislation should it be fully passed instead of just upsetting a bunch of little ravers that no one will listen to.
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