<div dir="auto">I assume HR 4079 was soundly trounced. HR 1 passed with 70% approval by the voters (not by Congress) according to polls. Bribery?<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 4:11 PM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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That bill would have declared a five year emergency during which:<br>
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- "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.<br>
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- prohibition of courts hearing any cruel and unusual cases based on overcrowding<br>
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- five year mandatory, no release, sentences for any drug crime including possession, increasing for more severe offenses<br>
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- mandatory work by all federal prisoners along with seizure of any federal benefits/moneys ordinarily due to the prisoner<br>
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- all evidence in drug cases could not be withheld on 4th amendment grounds<br>
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- suspension of Habeus Corpus (compliments of Strom Thurman for which the section is named)<br>
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- payment of financial incentives to citizens reporting suspected drug activity with higher incentives if convictions result<br>
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- and FEMA was going to be the administering agency for the "emergency"<br>
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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).<br>
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davew<br>
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