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Show Open letter Writer points up foundation's view of future police state for consideration during the 91st session of Congress that re-convened on September 3 past. At any time now, any member mem-ber of the full Senate Judiciary Committee can ask for committee com-mittee approval to send S.12 to the Senate floor for debate. Inasmuch as Senator Eastland is chairman of both the full Committee and the SISS, it is reasonable to assume that such a request will be made in the immediate future. It is impossible to analyze the portent of this pernicious and repugnant bill within the limited space alloted herein. Suffice it to say that S.12, designated the "Internal Security Se-curity Act of 1969," is specifically specif-ically designed to overrule or circumvent virtually every liberal lib-eral decision of the Supreme Court in the area of internal security over the last fifteen years. It is a most blatant attempt at-tempt by a group of reactionary reaction-ary congressional buffoons to revivify the w i t c h-hunting tactics of the McCarthy era. Thoughtful Americans, including in-cluding intelligent conservatives conserva-tives should contact their U.S. senators and petition them to oppose S.12, and to work for the abolition of such inquisitorial inquisi-torial committees as HCIS, SACB, and SISS. It is from such committees that repressive repres-sive laws emanate. If passed, the Eastland bill would become, according to Thomas I. Emerson, Yale University Uni-versity professor at law, "The legal foundation for a fascist police state." This should be a matter of grave concern to all freedom loving Americans. Persons interested in obtaining obtain-ing a most informative analysis analy-sis of the Eastland bill may obtain same, without cost, by writing to me. Hans H. Hart Springville, Utah Editor's Note: Letters to the editor are welcomed wel-comed so long as they are not of a slanderous nature, signed by the writer and concise. Views expressed in the letter to the editor- are those of the writer a,nd do not necessarily represent that of the newspaper. news-paper. The election of Richard M. Nixon has given a renewed impetus to the invidious activities activ-ities of the ultra-rightists, John Birchers, race bigots and other fusty-brained reactionaries. reaction-aries. In the name of national security, these self-anointed "apostles of doom" are actively engaged in an attempt to suppress sup-press the constitutionally guaranteed guar-anteed rights and civil liberties of those with whom they disagree. dis-agree. Of the many repressive measures mea-sures and political actions to which the ultra-rightist and their cohorts are most fanatically fanati-cally dedicated and to which they lend their benighted support sup-port are such infamous and discredited governmental committees com-mittees as the House Committee Commit-tee on Internal Security (HC IS), formerly the House Committee Com-mittee on Un-American Activities Activ-ities (HUAC), the malodorous Subversives Activities Control Board (SACB) and such repugnant re-pugnant and repressive legislation legis-lation as Sen. James O. Eastland's East-land's pending bill, S.12. The Eastland bill is a most flagrant attempt by the reactionary reac-tionary members of the U.S.' Congress to enact repressive legislation as ? means of supporting sup-porting legitimate dissent. On February 19, 1968, Senator Sena-tor James O. Eastland ID-Miss.), ID-Miss.), together with nineteen other co-sponsoring senators, including Utah's Wallace F. Bennett, introduced S.2988, an omnibus bill dealing with virtually vir-tually every aspect of what is known as the problem of national na-tional security. Hearings were held on the bill before the Internal In-ternal Security Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee Com-mittee (SISS), but no further action was taken on the bill by the 90th Congress at that time. At the beginning of the 91st Congress assembled on January Janu-ary 15, 1969, Senator Eastland proposed for consideration the same bill which was then designated des-ignated S.12. On this occasion Senator Eastland was joined by 17 other senators. During the interim between congressional sessions, Senator Allen (D. Alabama) Al-abama) and Senator Hicken-looper Hicken-looper (R. Iowa) withdrew their support of the obnoxious bill. S.12 was not brought to the floor of the Senate for consideration consid-eration during the last session of Congress because of the debate de-bate over President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief -listice of the Supreme Court. However Eastland's bill was placed high on the agenda |