[FRIAM] federal legislation

[George Duncan]

H.R.4079 - National Drug and Crime Emergency Act101st Congress (1989-1990)
BILLHide Overview
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/4079#>
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrich, Newt [R-GA-6]
<https://www.congress.gov/member/newt-gingrich/G000225> (Introduced
02/22/1990)
Committees: House - Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Public Works and
Transportation; Education and Labor; Armed Services
Latest Action: House - 05/03/1990 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

Apparently Newt Gingrich's bill in 1990 never got out of committee.


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On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:12 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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