[FRIAM] federal legislation

[Frank Wimberly]

I assume HR 4079 was soundly trounced.  HR 1 passed with 70% approval by
the voters (not by Congress) according to polls.  Bribery?

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 4:11 PM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Generally, I have very little interest in government legislation and
> certainly do not invest much time or effort in reading or remembering
> individual legislative acts.
>
> Until today, I had exactly one paper copy of a house bill — H.R. 4079,
> short title: National Drug and Crime Emergency Act — in my files.
>
> That bill would have declared a five year emergency during which:
>
>  - "concentration camps, ala the internment camps for citizens of Japanese
> ancestry, including tents, for the expected surge in inmates and including
> use of surplus military bases for such camps.
>
>   - prohibition of courts hearing any cruel and unusual cases based on
> overcrowding
>
>   - five year mandatory, no release, sentences for any drug crime
> including possession, increasing for more severe offenses
>
>   - mandatory work by all federal prisoners along with seizure of any
> federal benefits/moneys ordinarily due to the prisoner
>
>   - all evidence in drug cases could not be withheld on 4th amendment
> grounds
>
>   - suspension of Habeus Corpus (compliments of Strom Thurman for which
> the section is named)
>
>   - payment of financial incentives to citizens reporting suspected drug
> activity with higher incentives if convictions result
>
>   - and FEMA was going to be the administering agency for the "emergency"
>
> This year, I am printing and filing HR 1 to my folder of "remarkable"
> proposed legislation; for what I perceive to be equally absurd and
> illegal/unconstitutional provisions — all for an "emergency" that has no
> basis in reality (again in my opinion).
>
> davew
>
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