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Thu 2 Jun, 2005 09:52 pm
HR 1528 is now pending in Congress. It has passed one committee and is apparently sailing through another one. This was a keystone law used by Stalinist Russia to control its people and it appears to be sailing through our congress.
If this law is passed it will force you to inform on your family, friends, or neighbors if you have any knowledge of their involvement in any kind of drug activity that is connected in any way to persons under the age of majority.
If you see a joint being passed to a college student, you MUST immediately inform the police.
If your child has a substance abuse problem and begs someone else to acquire drugs, you cannot deal with this as a family matter, or in a drug treatment setting. You MUST inform on the both of them or risk a fine and jail time.
If your sister, who has kids, mentions that she bought some pot to share with her husband, you MUST inform on your sister or risk a fine and jail time.
If you do not inform you can be sentenced to prison for between 2 and 10 years.
Sec. 425. [a] It shall be unlawful for any person who witnesses or learns of a violation of sections 416[2], 417, 418, 419 420, 424, or 426 to fail to report the offense to law enforcement officials within 24 hours of witnessing or learning of the violation and thereafter provide full assistance in the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of the person violating paragraph [a].
A short version of SEC.2 [2] If you, a parent, discovers that your child manufactures, distributes, stores or uses any controlled substance and you do not report it you shall be fined not more than 8,000,000 and imprisoned not less than ten years or more than life.
Is this the reason the American people follow the republicans and the democrat parties so blindly, so we can have a POLICE STATE IN AMERICA?
Who here thinks this new law should be passed?
I didn't go over the bill very thoroughly but looks like just another tax bill to me...
HR 1528
Is there something I'm missing?
Re: HR 1528
RichNDanaPoint wrote:Sec. 425. [a] It shall be unlawful for any person who witnesses or learns of a violation of sections 416[b}[2], 417, 418, 419 420, 424, or 426 to fail to report the offense to law enforcement officials within 24 hours of witnessing or learning of the violation and thereafter provide full assistance in the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of the person violating paragraph [a].
According to
coachryan's link, the bill exists in five different versions (no doubt there have been various amendments tacked on in the senate or in conference), but none of those versions contains a section 425. Either that section was removed early in the legislative process or else it existed only in the fervid imaginations of certain people on the internet.
I don't think there is any danger of this part of the bill passing.
This is in direct conflict with the fifth amendment (and probably some others as well).