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Is Congress Trying to Sneak a Thoughtcrime Bill?

From OpenCongress.org:

If it hadn’t been for the blogs, I, like many others, wouldn’t have noticed H.R.1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. The bill was quietly approved by the House last week on a near-unanimous vote and the main stream media has all but ignored it. But as bloggers everywhere have pointed out, the bill’s language is so ambiguous that it seems to define thoughtcrime and, since it is unlike most terrorism bills in that it’s focus is on U.S. civilians, it raises important questions about the safety of our civil liberties.