[FRIAM] federal legislation

[Barry MacKichan]

Anyone for a delicious stew, beginning with eye of newt and toe of frog?

My personal recollection is that Gingrich had a major role in creating 
the toxic partisanship we are struggling with today.

—Barry

On 7 Mar 2021, at 20:13, George Duncan wrote:

> 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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> George Duncan
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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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