Thought Crime Prevention Bill?

Introduced by Rep. Jane Hartman (CA) and has 14 co-sponsors which include Al Green (TX) and Ted Poe (TX). The resolution was sent 10/24/2007 to the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.

It looks to me like this legislation targets the civilian population of the United States and specifically targets the growing number of people that are demanding the restoration of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Look at the definitions…”VIOLENT RADICALIZATION”…perhaps your promotion of supporting a particular candidate for office to advance political and social change? Maybe someone like RON PAUL?? How about “HOMEGROWN TERRORISM”…do you write opinion pieces? Letters to the Editor? Have a blog on the Internet where you espouse your thoughts and ideas? Now drop on down to Sec. 899B, where Congress finds that “…the Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization and the homegrown terrorism process…”. How soon will it be before the Internet is government regulated? Here is the text of the resolution:

H.R.1955
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (Referred to Senate Committee after being Received from House)
`SEC. 899A. DEFINITIONS.
`For purposes of this subtitle:
`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.
`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.
`The Congress finds the following:
`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

Dallas Morning News - November 4, 2007
PERRY DONORS MIGHT BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH
Despite his dream to accelerate cures for cancer, Gov. Rick Perry accepted more than $1 million in the last two years from company officials and lobby groups connected to substances that increase the risk of cancer. The author and sponsors of Proposition 15, the legislation that would approve $3 billion in state funds for cancer prevention and research, also accepted contributions from similar donors.

San Antonio Express News - November 5, 2007
SLOWER I-35 PART OF DEAL ON TOLL ROAD
A recent toll road contract that shoehorns market incentives into a government monopoly would reward the state for lowering speed limits on Interstate 35, effectively steering drivers to the toll road. The privatization contract for Texas 130 from Austin to Seguin, cutting a parallel path east of I-35, was quietly signed in March amid a legislative furor over whether to freeze such agreements. It includes a controversial clause that penalizes the state for widening or building competing roads.

Seems Rick Perry and that Spain-based general contractor are a little thick headed when it comes to toll roads. How many times does the public have to say "We don't want no stinkin' toll roads!"? Who voted this jerk back into office?

State hoarding money earmarked for hospitals
01:19 AM CDT on Thursday, November 1, 2007 By Lee McGuire / 11 News

Lee McGuire tries to find where all the money went. So many people run red lights in Houston that every day; red light cameras issue $14,000 worth of citations. It’s so lucrative, that this fall the state legislature got involved: ordering that half the money collected be sent to the state.
The dollars then would be sent on to hospitals that run overcrowded trauma centers.
In September, Houston's red-light tickets added up to $208,000 for the state. But 11News has learned, our hospitals aren't in line to see any of it. The Texas Hospital Association says somewhere along the line, lawmakers neglected to put anything about sending red-light money to hospitals in the budget.

Surprise! Surprise! It's not about safety....it's about the money.