A Washington Post article describes how the city council of Arcata, CA has passed a law making it illegal for the top nine managers of the city to comply with a request for information under the USA Patriot Act. The small town's 16,000 residents favor this form of non-violent disobedience to a Federal Government that they believe has "gone stark raving mad". That was the platform on which the most recently elected city council member ran on and won. Arcata is just one of 89 city councils that have passed such a resolution. You should contact your local officials too. (I contacted mine!) Perhaps enough local action will finally wake up our federal representatives.
Posted by Brian at April 21, 2003 09:24 AM | TrackBack