{"id":4815,"date":"2003-05-05T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:36:06","slug":"evanston-to-consider-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/05\/evanston-to-consider-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Evanston to Consider PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Nelson of the The Daily Northwestern on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynorthwestern.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2003\/05\/05\/3eb60bd37c262\">Committee to consider Patriot Act opposition<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evanston City Council might soon issue its opinion on a national security policy just three months after condemning what was then a possible war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Services Committee will consider tonight a resolution concerning the USA Patriot Act, which bolstered federal surveillance powers one month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, authored by the city&#8217;s Human Relations Commission, urges Congress to repeal parts of the act the commission found threatening to civil liberties. If the city&#8217;s resolution is passed by the the committee, and ultimately Evanston City Council, federal legislators will be informed of the city&#8217;s opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should this resolution pass, there would be one more city not toeing that line. Not that anyone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue cares.  Just FYI.<\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertywatchtower.com\/archives\/000157.php\">The Watchtower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Nelson of the The Daily Northwestern on Committee to consider Patriot Act opposition Evanston City Council might soon issue its opinion on a national security policy just three months after condemning what was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}