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[13 Oct 2001|11:43am]
i'm all typed out. today is rainy. i'm gonna spend the day at jason's...although at some point i do have to clean my house a bit because my friends amy and rochelle are coming over in the afternoon on sunday

Gay Rights *Please Read* [13 Oct 2001|06:51pm]
sign the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/0712t001/petition.html
On Thursday, July 12, 2001 the group, Alliance for Marriage, announced their proposal for a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT entitled "The Federal Marriage Amendment." The purpose of this amendment, according to the AFM, is to strengthen American families and reintegrate the role of a strong father figure. Realistically, though, this is a thinly veiled attempt to federally ban gay marriages in the US. According to the Alliance for Family, this Amendment would add the following two sentences to our Constitution:

"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

"Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."

This would eliminate Vermont's Civil Union bill and the future that ANY states have to institute a similar bill. This could also leave the door open to the abolition of domestic partner benefits in the future.
NOW is not the time to take steps BACK in reinforcing and embracing diversity in our country. Nor is it the time to give in to groups who are trying to hide behind the wall of "Family Values" when they are undermining the very root of it. They are not only seeking to destroy loving couples and families, but they are asking you to be the enforcers in violating basic human rights of your gay tax payers and voters.

So, please DO NOT give in to such a blatant attempt to discriminate against EQUAL citizens of this country.

Political Activists and Demonstrators should Zero in on S.1510. [13 Oct 2001|06:53pm]
my friend mark sent me this:

"This is being called the "Patriot" anti-terrorist bill. I do not
exaggerate when I say that this is about as fascist a thing as you could
possibly imagine....I dont normally call my congress persons or Senator,
but this scares the shit out of me so much that I called them up!! I think
it just passed the Senate and is on it's way to the House, so if you wnat
to call your representative/congress person, you must do it now.

Below I have a shorter overview of the bill that I found, and then a much
longer ACLU analysis. Read them both if you have the time. The comments in
the shorter overview are not mine, and are a bit too inflammatory to my
taste, but you'll get the idea....

Mark"

SHORTER OVERVIEW of S. 1510 -

Senate Leaders Introduce Bill to Strengthen U.S. Security

S. 1510 backed by Daschle, Lott, Leahy and Hatch

"MONEY LAUNDERING ABATEMENT AND ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCING ACT OF 2001"

Political Activists and Demonstrators should Zero in on S.1510. The bill's
revisions can be used to eradicate public dissent - - and you!

Under Senate Bill 1510, now being considered in the Senate as an
Anti-terrorism act:

a.. An entire 501C3 organization or other organization, including its
members, can have their assets seized for supporting bodily acts or
international causes that the U.S. Secretary of State may deem terrorist
activity. Political activities that were legal prior to S.1510 may
"RETROACTIVELY" be deemed terrorist activity by U.S. Government.
Participants and supporters may be charged with terrorist and other offenses.

(2). S.1510 "RETROACTIVELY" abolishes the "Statue of Limitations" for many
past offenses where no one was injured. After passage of S.1510, any past
offense that can be broadly alleged to have put someone "at risk" may be
used by federal and state prosecutors to charge a citizen with a terrorist
act - even 30 years after the Statute of Limitations period had already passed.

Constitutional safeguards against passing
Retroactive Laws are abolished after passage of S.1510.

(3) No "innocent owner defense" allowed against Asset Forfeiture when,
after passage of S 1510, U.S. Government agencies will be able to seize
assets of citizens, 501C3 and other organizations and their members
without ever disclosing the evidence against their property. Government
need only allege that disclosing such evidence may compromise National
security and/or an ongoing investigation. S 1510 provides for paying
"unnamed informants huge rewards" resulting from arrests and forfeited
assets. It is hard to
believe any organization or citizen could ever recover their assets once
they are seized by a government agency in the name of National Security.
That may include a citizen's home in which an informant secretly alleges
someone said the wrong thing.

(4) "D Below" is from the Senate Bill 1510.

So much for trusting your attorney!

"(d) UNDERCOVER ACTIVITIES- Notwithstanding any provision of State law,
including disciplinary rules, statutes, regulations, constitutional
provisions, or case law, a Government attorney may, for the purpose of
enforcing Federal law, provide legal advice, authorization, concurrence,
direction, or supervision on conducting undercover activities, and any
attorney employed as an investigator or other law enforcement agent by the
Department of Justice who is not authorized to represent the United States in
criminal or civil law enforcement litigation or to supervise such
proceedings may participate in such activities, even though such activities
may require the use of deceit or misrepresentation, where such activities
are consistent with Federal law.

(e) ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE- No violation of any disciplinary, ethical,
or professional conduct rule shall be construed to permit the exclusion of
otherwise admissible evidence in any Federal criminal proceedings".

This bill is similar to the one Adolf Hitler pushed through the Reichstag
after the Reichstag fire in the early 1930's. German Jews, horrified by
the chaos in Germany after the fire, supported Hitler's legislation - then
found he could (and planned to) use it against them.

This is worse legislation than the Sedition Laws of the 1790's, later
declared unconstitutional and leading to the end of John Adams' presidency.

Understand! Under the law as now written, you and anyone connected
with any organization - 501(c)(3), church, Rotary, any organization - can
be snagged under this legislation. Lifting the Statute of Limitations
means that you could have your home and other assets seized if you were a
member of an organization that supported, for example, Leonard Peltier, or
sent food or
medicine to Cuba, or even protested against nukes in the '60s - and
the U.S.G. decided that that organization was then or is now in any way
associated with someone or some organization that is somehow connected to a
"terrorist organization."

Of course, it will be said that that is highly unlikely to happen if
you keep your nose clean - and don't give financial or other support to
any suspect organization.

There are thousands of people in our prisons now, put there by the
testimony of paid/"rewarded" informers. All it takes is for some such
person to provide "testimony" that the ACLU or the Sierra Club or Pastors
for Peace, or other organization is "supporting" terrorists. Or maybe some
member of such an organization does provide support to a terrorist: all
members are liable to imprisonment and seizure of their assets.

Who, under a law like that, is going to give funding to any 501(c)(3)
organization or any other actionist group - even for work with
rehabilitating prisoners or drug addicts, or providing housing for the poor?

If this law passes in this form, kiss protest - by letter or
demonstration - and democracy goodbye!

Go to www.senate.gov and send a note to your Senators and tell them to
kill this bastard before it becomes law. At least to amend the damn thing!

And please forward this (or your own) message to EVERYONE on your
e-mail list.

P.S. If you want to read this bill for yourself, go to
http://Thomas.loc.gov, to the 107th Congress, and Senate Bill 1510 (S.1510).

MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS BY THE ACLU

http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/
ACLU Calls New Senate Terrorism Bill Significantly Worse; Says Long-Term
Impact on Freedom Cannot Be Justified
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 5, 2001

WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the Senate
to
reject the newest version of proposed anti-terrorism legislation, saying
that it poses significantly more danger to civil liberties than the
measure
adopted earlier this week by the House Judiciary Committee.

"The new Senate legislation goes far beyond any powers conceivably
necessary
to fight terrorism in the United States," said Laura W. Murphy, Director
of
the ACLU's Washington National Office. "The long-term impact on basic
freedoms in this legislation cannot be justified."

"For immigrants," added Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director of the
ACLU's
Washington Office, "this bill is a dramatic setback. It is
unconscionable to
detain immigrants who prove in a court of law that they are not
terrorists
and who win their deportation cases."

Among the bill's most troubling provisions, the ACLU said, are measures
that
would:

Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, even if they have
successfully challenged a government effort to deport them.

Minimize judicial supervision of federal telephone and Internet
surveillance
by law enforcement authorities.

Expand the ability of the government to conduct secret searches.

Give the Attorney General and the Secretary of State the power to
designate
domestic groups as terrorist organizations and block any non-citizen who
belongs to them from entering the country. Under this provision, paying
membership dues to such an organization would become a deportable
offense.

Grant the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about
individuals
without having to show evidence of a crime.

Lead to large-scale investigations of American citizens for
"intelligence"
purposes.
The new legislation, which has been significantly rewritten in the last
24
hours, was given to Senate offices today. Senate leaders said they are
planning to by-pass Judiciary Committee hearings and mark-up; a floor
vote
in the Senate could happen as early as next Wednesday.

"In its rush to legislate, the Senate is abandoning its responsibility
to be
deliberative and careful," Murphy said. "We urge Senators to insure that
any
legislation maximizes our security while minimizing the impact on our
civil
liberties."

Following are highlights of the civil liberties implications of the
compromise legislation introduced by Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD,
Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-MS, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick
Leahy, D-VT, and ranking minority member Orrin Hatch, R-UT. Senators Bob
Graham, D-FL, and Paul Sarbanes, D-MD, are also original co-sponsors.

Immigration

The ACLU said that the new bill would confer new and unprecedented
detention
authority on the Attorney General based on vague and unspecified
predictions
of threats to the national security.

Specifically, the ACLU said that the new legislation would permit the
indefinite administrative detention of non-citizens -- including those
who
win their deportation cases -- based merely on the Attorney General's
certification that he has "reasonable grounds to believe" the
non-citizen
endangers national security. In addition, non-citizens ordered removed
to
countries that would not accept them could also be indefinitely
detained.

"Very few countries will agree to take back one of their citizens if the
United States has labeled him a terrorist," Nojeim said. "Even though it
says it has compromised on indefinite detention, under this legislation,
the
Administration still achieves the same result of being able to imprison
indefinitely someone who has never been convicted of a crime."

In addition, the ACLU said that the legislation provides for no
meaningful
review of the Attorney General's certification because the standards for
the
certification are so vague that judges would have no yardstick for which
to
judge the appropriateness of the detention. The review could be had only
once, not years later while the non-citizen remained detained based on a
stale determination by the Attorney General.

Wiretapping and Intelligence Surveillance

On the question of wiretapping and intelligence surveillance, the ACLU
said
that the wiretapping proposals in the Senate bill continue to sound two
themes: they minimize the role of a judge in ensuring that law
enforcement
wiretapping is conducted legally and with proper justification, and they
permit use of intelligence investigative authority to by-pass normal
criminal procedures that protect privacy.

The ACLU said that it was specifically concerned about the following
provisions of the new Senate legislation:

1. The bill would allow the government to use its intelligence gathering
power to circumvent the standard that must be met for criminal wiretaps.
Currently FISA surveillance, which does not contain many of the same
checks
and balances that govern wiretaps for criminal purposes, can be used
only
when foreign intelligence gathering is the primary purpose. The
compromise
bill would allow use of FISA surveillance authority even if the primary
purpose were a criminal investigation. Intelligence surveillance merely
needs to be only a "significant" purpose.

2. Under current law, a law enforcement agent can get a pen register or
trap
and trace order requiring the telephone company to reveal the numbers
dialed
to and from a particular phone. It must simply certify that the
information
to be obtained is "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." This
is a
very low level of proof, far less than probable cause. The judge must
grant
the order upon receiving the certification. The new bill would extend
this
low threshold of proof to Internet communications that are far more
revealing than numbers dialed on a phone. For example, it would
apparently
apply to law enforcement efforts to determine what websites a person had
visited. This is like giving law enforcement the power - based only on
its
own certification -- to require the librarian to report on the books you
had
perused while visiting the public library. This is extending a low
standard
of proof - far less than probable cause -- to "content" information.

3. In allowing for "nationwide service" of pen register and trap and
trace
orders, the bill would further marginalize the role of the judiciary. It
would authorize what would be the equivalent of a blank warrant in the
physical world: the court issues the order, and the law enforcement
agent
fills in the places to be searched. This is not consistent with the
important Fourth Amendment privacy protection of requiring that warrants
specify the place to be searched. Under this legislation, a judge would
be
unable to meaningfully monitor the extent to which her order was being
used
to access information about Internet communications. The Senate
amendment to
the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations bill included a similar
provision.

4. The bill would also grant the FBI broad access in "intelligence"
investigations to records about a person maintained by a business. The
FBI
would need only certify to a court that it is conducting an intelligence
investigation and that the records it seeks may be relevant. With this
new
power, the FBI could force a business to turn over a person's
educational,
medical, financial, mental health and travel records based on a very low
standard of proof and without meaningful judicial oversight.

The ACLU noted that the FBI already has broad authority to monitor
telephone
and Internet communications. Most of the changes proposed in the bill
would
apply not just to surveillance of terrorists, but instead to all
surveillance in the United States.

Law enforcement authorities -- even when they are required to obtain
court
orders - have great leeway under current law to investigate suspects in
terrorist attacks. Current law already provides, for example, that
wiretaps
can be obtained for the crimes involved in terrorist attacks, including
destruction of aircraft and aircraft piracy.

The FBI also already has authority to intercept these communications
without
showing probable cause of crime for "intelligence" purposes under the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Little is known about the
extent of this wiretapping, other than that FISA wiretaps now exceed
wiretapping for all domestic criminal investigations. The standards for
obtaining a FISA wiretap are lower than the standards for obtaining a
criminal wiretap.

Criminal Justice

One of the most serious civil liberties concerns in the Senate bill is
that
it would dramatically expand the use of secret searches. Normally, a
person
is notified when law enforcement conducts a search. In some cases
regarding
searches for electronic information, law enforcement authorities can get
court permission to delay notification of a search. This bill would
extend
the authority of the government to request "secret searches" to every
criminal case. This vast expansion of power goes far beyond anything
necessary to conduct terrorism investigations.

The bill would also allow for the broad sharing of sensitive information
in
criminal cases with intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the NSA,
the
INS and the Secret Service. It would permit sensitive grand jury and
wiretap
information without judicial review or any safeguards regarding the
future
use or dissemination of such information.

The bill also creates a new crime of "domestic terrorism." The new
offense
would transform protestors into terrorists if they engage in conduct
that
"involves acts dangerous to human life." Members of Operation Rescue,
the
Environmental Liberation Front and Greenpeace, for example, have all
engaged
in activities that could subject them to prosecution as terrorists.
Then,
under this legislation, the dominos would fall. Those who provide
lodging or
other assistance to these "domestic terrorists" could have their homes
wiretapped and could be prosecuted.

i want to learn flamenco and tai chi
although i think those 2 things are one and the same

must dance. move energy. i have no words for how i feel.
just...some things in my life must come to an end. and other things must finally start to begin. to do this causes me great fear. the pain and joy of life are sometimes more than i can almost bear.

i am glad for who i am

http://www.enterprisemission.com/tower2.htm

thank you to mya and btripp for showing me these incredibly interesting links!

[17 Oct 2001|03:09pm]
hi :) my brain isn't functioning today.

[17 Oct 2001|05:35pm]
for the people that couldn't get into ana2...can you get in now?

ANA2 [18 Oct 2001|10:45am]
everyone should be able to get into ana2 in about 20 minutes. jason figured out what the problem was and i called up technical support and they are working on it right now :)

sorry for the inconvenience!!

ana2 again [18 Oct 2001|11:48am]
i just read an email from maw saying that he noticed the ana2.com domain had expired! i didn't receive any notice about this from networksolutions ( oh, mercury in retrograde i curse thee! )
so maw renewed it for me because he is my guardian angel {{{{MAW}}}}
and he said that network solutions told him that ana2.com will be working sometime today or tomorrow ( *PRAY* TODAY! )

i will add on extra free days to all ana2 members to make up for the days you have lost.
i am really sorry about this. augh :/

thank you for your patience and understanding!

[18 Oct 2001|04:26pm]
http://www.gatesofheck.com/annie/news.html

whoever would buy me this dildo...i will make exclusive pictures for that person with it!
i will put it to great use! *grovel beg drool* :) or give free ana2 or both!
( or trade for artwork or something else? )
i am a HUGE fan of annie sprinkle and to own this dildo that she herself designed and is in a limited edition would be an honour for me to own and use and would be one of my most highly valued treasures that i will keep and love forever :)

want to store your stuff at my house? [18 Oct 2001|04:33pm]
since i need $....(it's been hard since jason moved out and now i pay all the rent and utilities myself)

and i don't want to move or get a roomate....i am going to try this route!
i can clean out one of my rooms and use it for storage space for people. i have no idea what the going rate is for storage space....but it would all be safe at my house since i'm here all the time to keep an eye on it :)

anyone interested...write me at: ana101@hotmail.com

[18 Oct 2001|07:11pm]
i just won 14 my little ponies on ebay for only 13 bucks :) i'm so happy :) i always wanted some of these. i want a million! :)

[18 Oct 2001|08:11pm]
i just found out that my aunt grace died this morning at 5:15am :(

[18 Oct 2001|08:31pm]
ana2 back up!

also...does anyone know the names of the my little ponies that are clear?
it's the clear ones i like the best and want to search for :)

[19 Oct 2001|12:34pm]
monday is grace's thing where you can go view her dead body. i am so not into that. i want to remember the way people looked when they were alive. i don't want the memory of them all embalmed and fake looking in a casket.

if they actually just left them naturally dead looking i would be more inclined to view it. but when they embalm and put all that make up on them i think it just looks utterly horrific.

then she is going to be cremated and her funeral is on tuesday. i will go to that. grace is my last relative that i was close with that died. ( except i still have left my mom, dad, and brother )

death is such a mystery.

my dad is taking care of all the funeral arrangements. he said it is an honour. i love my dad :)

my mom called me the other day saying she didn't want to hurt my feelings and she wanted peace between us. but at this point, i need a bit more than that from her. i need to see that she actually went through a PROCESS in where she has come up with a way to NOT hurt me. not just saying she doesn't want to is enough. she doesn't know HOW not to.

i haven't called her back. i'll write her a letter when i get up that much energy.

but i guess i will see her at the funeral , so i better write that letter soon.