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Cynthia McKinney shares a 88% similarity with your beliefs on Civil Liberties and Domestic Security
I strongly oppose the 2006 extension of the Patriot Act
"Freedom includes the rights to education, health care, housing, living wages, and freedom from racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, gentrification, and police terror. Therefore, we need comprehensive federal investment in low-income families and communities, with an emphasis on people of color. We need repeal of the Patriot Acts, the Secret Evidence Act, the Military Commissions Act, and other legislation that rolls back bedrock civil liberties. "
Voted NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent.
"I opposed the Patriot Act and its re-authorization."
Green Party 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire Feb 3, 2008
I oppose giving the federal government more domestic surveillance power
McKinney co-sponsored the Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (H.R. 4561). SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT: "It is clear that this bill's many cosponsors do not agree on every issue. The same can be said of the bill's noncongressional supporters, which include groups ranging from the National Rifle Association to the American Civil Liberties Union. The sphere of privacy, which Justice Brandeis eloquently described as the ''right to be let alone,'' is not only rapidly diminishing, it is increasingly penetrable. The Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act takes the first--necessary--step toward protecting the privacy of information collected by the federal government, by requiring that rules noticed for public comment by federal agencies be accompanied by an assessment of the rule's impact on personal privacy interests, including the extent to which the proposed rule provides notice of the collection of personally identifiable information, what information will be obtained, and how this informational will be collected, protected, maintained, used and disclosed."
Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (H.R.4561) (legislation)
Voted NO on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant
Voted NO on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight
“Now, we don’t know who did it, but one of them put a lock on the door and slipped a key to the corporate lobbyists who can come and go at will and whisper what they want to the Democrats, and then whisper what they want to the Republicans, and the result is that we the people, who pay for those seats and determine who sits in them, want one thing, but because the corporate lobbyists can come and go at will, our values get overridden and our representatives give us something else. That’s how we end up with everyone saying they’re against the war and occupation, but war and occupation still gets funding. That’s how we end up with everyone saying they’re against illegal spying on innocent people, yet end up with a telecom immunity bill being signed into law.”