Write Ralph Shaffer and Willam Robinson: “With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. “Not since the “Patriot Act” of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights. “The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams’ suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government … Continue reading Building the Bipartisan Police State