Ohio Patriot Act

[geiger]

Has anyone out there experienced the results of its passage back in April? This is from the Dec 6 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Have you solicited any individual for membership in an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List?" ...

...beginning this past summer, all new {public/govt] employees... are being confronted with just such politically sensitive and intrusive questions. In addition to the "have you solicited" inquiry, a new teaching assistant, for example, at some of the public campuses is now required to disclaim several other types of potentially suspect affiliation or activity. The teaching assistant must declare that he or she is not currently a member of any organization on the Terrorist Exclusion List, has not used any "position of prominence ... within any country to persuade others to support an organization," has not "knowingly solicited funds or other things of value" for such a group, has not "committed an act that you know, or reasonably should have known, affords 'material support or resources' to any such organization," and has not hired or compensated a person known to belong to such groups, "or a person you knew to be engaged in planning, assisting, or carrying out an act of terrorism...."

....Among a welter of security-related provisions is one that calls upon the state's director of public safety to prepare a document by which state agencies must certify whether any "applicant for a has provided material assistance to an organization" on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List. The statute lists six questions to which acceptable answers must compose an applicant's declaration. The law goes on to treat an unsatisfactory answer, or even a failure to respond, as "a disclosure that the applicant has provided material assistance" to a listed organization....

...Needless to say, such a "disclosure" in explicit form — or, by nonresponse, implicit form — would bar the issuance or renewal of the license, job, or contract.

[BillORightsMan]

1. Does this count?

affords 'material support or resources' to any such organization,"..."or a person you knew to be engaged in planning, assisting, or carrying out an act of terrorism...."

Uh, would that include anyone that donated money or personal time to the bush/cheney04 campaign?

One could argue (perhaps at The Hague) that all those aiding and abetting in re-(s)electing bush/cheney would then be GUILTY of violating the OPA.
:grr:

Oh, if it took effect in April 06 then never mind.
Just a thought....

:patriot: