The New HUAC

"Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman is the Senate co-sponsor of a little-noticed domestic anti-terrorism bill that could carry us several steps closer to the good old days of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and Joe McCarthy," reports Minnesota Monitor.

In the 1950s, HUAC chased communists through the mean streets of Hollywood. Today we have the bipartisan cause known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, VIRTPA, sponsored by Democrat Jane Harman of California, a superdelegate pledged to Hillary Clinton.

Is VRHTP a useful study commission of a national security threat? Or a potential runaway threat to non-violent dissent?

"People who don't appear before this commission, or don't answer questions the way the commission thinks they should, could face up to 10 years in prison for failing to cooperate." (from Perry's podcast with civil liberties lawyer Peter Erlinder.)

At a Martin Luther King Jr. Day appearance in St. Paul, Coleman reportedly told an audience that he had no plans to try to bring the bill to the floor in this session.

Have Presidents Clinton/McCain/Obama spoken on VRHTP?

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