Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

  This is a sneaky bill brought forth by a Democrat ( Rep. Jane Harman [D, CA-36] ) and this bill did not get much debate in The House. It was pretty much a " here it is, now let's vote on it " kind of setting.

Oct 23, 2007: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. The totals were 404 Ayes, 6 Nays, 22 Present/Not Voting. govtrack.us

  If you wish to see who voted and how they voted, then may I suggest that you go here and check out your Representatives.

  Funny thing is that more Democrats ( 219 ) voted " yes " for this bill than did Republicans ( 185 ). Only 6 members voted against this bill, 3 from each party and my hat goes off to them because they apparently have seen that this bill could be more problems to us citizens as far as our eroding rights are concerned.

Arizona- Flake, Jeff [R],California- Rohrabacher, Dana [R],Hawaii- Abercrombie, Neil [D],Illinois- Costello, Jerry [D],Ohio- Kucinich, Dennis [D],Tennessee- Duncan, John [R] 

   It is in your best interest to contact you Senators to let them know that this bill is no good and that it needs to be dropped. On the surface, fighting homegrown terrorism is a great idea. It is the " other purposes " of this bill which you should be more than worried about. All of those " other purposes " in a vaguely worded bill can cover a lot of areas that should be left alone.

   I don't know about you, but I don't like dictators up in the White House in my United States. It is my United States. It is your United States also.

                       We, the People...

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