Suffolk Bill of Rights Defense Campaign (SBORDC)

Fathers have lost their constitutional 1st and 14th amendment rights

Laura Coon | Fathers are losing their rights, and giving up their lives, because the courts are biased. They discriminate against a father only because of his gender, no other reason. Fathers are going in the poor house, where most of them start anyway, just to try and fight for the right to help raise their own flesh and blood. Between lawyers who really don't care and judges who pass out child support just because he has no guts to pass out a fair ruling. Fathers should have their children half the time. This should be the norm.

Loyal Nine, SBORDC resolution passed in Huntington (NY Times)

UNTIL this summer, Susan Berland, a member of the Huntington Town Board, said that the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the possibility that it was infringing on people's basic rights was not an issue for the board.

But she said that for two or three months, town board members received hundreds of e-mails and telephone calls from people who lobbied them to take a stand against the Patriot Act's perceived encroachments on civil liberties.

''They wanted us to do something about this and to send a message to Congress,'' Ms.

Huntington is close to passing measure against Patriot Act

The Town of Huntington plans on becoming the latest government to go on the record with objections to the USA Patriot Act, which critics say does more to attack citizens' civil liberties than it does to protect them from terrorism.

The town board is expected next month to adopt a version of the so-called anti-Patriot Act - a nonbinding resolution

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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