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because guess who provides some of those "chemicals and
pesticides banned in the US but permitted elsewhere" ?

      WEEKLY FOOD & FARM: Government to quit inspecting tobacco 
     
            By NANCY ZUCKERBROD
            ASSOCIATED PRESS 
     
     
      WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Legislation just passed by Congress abolishes the 
requirement that the government inspect imported tobacco to ensure it is not 
laced with chemicals and pesticides banned in the United States but permitted 
elsewhere.  


excerpt :
       U.S. farmers are unhappy about the end of foreign inspections on 
tobacco. The change was included in legislation that will pay tobacco growers 
$10 billion and end a Depression-era program that set price and production 
controls on American-grown leaf. 

       The tobacco plan is part of a major corporate tax bill that is 
awaiting President Bush's signature.
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"... cannot be the day Liberty perished in this country ... "!!



http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap10-16-092005.asp?t=apnew&vts=101620041049<http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap10-16-092005.asp?t=apnew&vts=101620041049>

 

Terrorism fears not sufficient reason to search protesters, appellate court 
rules

By C.G. WALLACE
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA, Oct. 16 - Fears of a terrorist attack are not sufficient reason for 
authorities to search people at a protest, a federal appeals court has ruled, 
saying Sept. 11 ''cannot be the day liberty perished.'' 

 

     The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that 
protesters may not be required to pass through metal detectors when they 
gather next month for a rally against a <>U.S. training academy for Latin 
American soldiers. 
       Authorities began using the metal detectors at the annual School of 
the Americas protest after the 2001 terrorist attacks, but the court found 
that practice to be unconstitutional. 
       ''We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War 
of Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly 
over,'' Judge Gerald Tjoflat wrote for the three-member court. ''Sept. 11, 
2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be the day liberty 
perished in this country.'' 
       City officials in Columbus, Ga., contended the searches were needed 
because of the elevated risk of terrorism, but the court threw out that 
argument, saying it would ''eviscerate the Fourth Amendment.'' 
       ''In the absence of some reason to believe that international 
terrorists would target or infiltrate this protest, there is no basis for 
using Sept. 11 as an excuse for searching the protesters,'' the court said. 
       Columbus Mayor Bobby Peters and Police Chief Willie Dozier did not 
immediately return messages seeking comment left Saturday by The Associated 
Press. 
       Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a priest who founded the protest group called SOA 
Watch, praised the ruling for safeguarding essential rights. 
       ''I felt that they were using 9/11 as an excuse, along with the 
Patriot Act, to interfere with our First Amendment rights,'' he said. ''They 
are using this to get around what the Constitution is really rooted in.'' 
       The metal detectors caused long lines and congestion outside the 
protest area, he said, comparing it to routing 10,000 people through a single 
security gate at an airport. 
       ''It was not just an inconvenience, it was a nightmare. We couldn't 
get to the place of assembly in an orderly fashion,'' he said. 
       About 15,000 demonstrators attend the annual vigil, demanding the 
closing of the center formerly known as the School of the Americas. The 
facility at Fort Benning was reopened in January 2001 as the Western 
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. 
       The protests began in 1990. This year's demonstration is scheduled for 
Nov. 20-21. 
       ^--= 
       On the Net: 
       School of the Americas Watch: 
http://www.soaw.org/new/<http://www.soaw.org/new/> 
       11th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions: 
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions<http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions> 



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