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Proposal ID760
Proposal2014 Platform amendment proposal: Domestic Security
PresenterPlatform Committee - sponsored by GP of Maryland
Floor ManagerBudd Dickinson
PhaseClosed - Adopted
Discussion06-30-2014 - 07-13-2014
Voting07-14-2014 - 07-20-2014
Presens QuorumTwo Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens QuorumTwo Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

A new plank to address illegal domestic spying by the NSA and other agencies.

Proposal

Amend I. Democracy, E. Domestic Security.

Add an additional item #15:

"Recognize that the privacy protections of the 4th amendment extend to the Internet. Demand the elimination of bulk Internet data collection by our government. Fund and promote research into alternate Internet structures that would build in privacy. Hold criminally accountable all government officials, employees and contractors who illegally spy on Americans, and who provide false, misleading or incomplete testimony to Congress about surveillance of American communications by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.”

Resources

IMPLEMENTATION / TIMELINE
Approval of this proposal will amend the 2014 Platform, which will be published on the GPUS website in or before September, 2014.

CONTACT
Platform Committee
Jan Martell, co-chair, 919-682-2472, ninth.st@frontier.com
Bruce Hinkforth, co-chair, 262-569-1370, bhinkforth@milwpc.com
John Holland, state contact, jholland@vin-dit.org

References

2012 Platform: http://gp.org/green-party-platform-table-of-contents
Proposition 740: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=740


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