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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">Anyone for a delicious stew, beginning with eye of newt and toe of frog?</p>
<p dir="auto">My personal recollection is that Gingrich had a major role in creating the toxic partisanship we are struggling with today.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 7 Mar 2021, at 20:13, George Duncan wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="EB16FCE1-632F-45B0-AB81-3AB971111D5E"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><h1 class="gmail-legDetail" style="font-size:1.25rem;margin:0px 0px 1.75rem;color:rgb(32,42,67);line-height:1.1;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">H.R.4079 - National Drug and Crime Emergency Act<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:0.75rem;font-weight:normal;display:block;margin-top:5px">101st Congress (1989-1990)</span></h1><div class="gmail-overview_label" style="background-color:rgb(152,56,42);border-bottom:3px solid rgb(74,13,12);display:inline-block;padding:0px 15px;height:30px;line-height:30px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><h2 class="gmail-label_text" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0px;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;text-transform:uppercase">BILL</h2><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/4079#" class="gmail-toggle_button" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:0.6875rem;display:inline-block;margin-left:30px">Hide Overview <i style="font-size:0.75rem"></i></a></div><div class="gmail-overview_wrapper gmail-bill" style="display:flex;box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-overview" style="padding:32px 30px 5px;margin:0px;border:2px solid rgb(136,157,170);box-sizing:border-box;overflow:auto"><table class="gmail-standard01" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" style="text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top">Sponsor:</th><td style="padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/newt-gingrich/G000225" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,102,204);word-break:break-word">Rep. Gingrich, Newt [R-GA-6]</a> (Introduced 02/22/1990)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top">Committees:</th><td style="padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top">House - Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Public Works and Transportation; Education and Labor; Armed Services</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="text-align:left;white-space:nowrap;padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top">Latest Action:</th><td style="padding:5px 10px 5px 0px;vertical-align:top">House - 05/03/1990 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Apparently Newt Gingrich's bill in 1990 never got out of committee.</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>George Duncan</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a></div><div>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram</div>
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<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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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