[Infowarrior] - Terror Hoaxes: Congress Backs Official Idiocy

[Richard Forno]

Congress Backs Official Idiocy

Here¹s Congress siding with Boston¹s idiotic public officials. The Terrorist
Hoax Improvements Act of 2007 would allow government officials to sue people
who fail to promptly clear things up when those officials mistakenly think
that they have stumbled over a terrorist plot. There¹s nothing in the bill
allowing individuals or corporations to sue government officials when
hare-brained overreactions interfere with their lives and business or
destroy their property.
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/05/05/congress-backs-official-idiocy/


And from Washington Watch:

Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code
to: (1) extend the prohibition against conveying false information and
hoaxes to any federal crime of terrorism; (2) increase maximum prison terms
for hoaxes involving a member of the Armed Forces during war; (3) allow a
civil remedy for damages resulting from hoaxes perpetrated by an individual
who later fails to provide accurate information to investigating authorities
about the actual nature of the incident; and (4) extend the prohibition
against mailing threatening communications to include corporations or
governmental entities (as well as individuals).

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_735.html