ALLIANCE FOR CITIZENS RIGHTS

LETTER TO SENATE COMMITTEE REVIEWING HB'S 45-51

Jan. 30, 2002

The Alliance for Citizen’s Rights (ACR) strongly objects to the contents of Rep. Venable’s bills, HB 45 through HB54.

Under the guise of removing one or two pages of printed material from our constitution, we would lose many tremendously important protections for the citizens of Alabama.

Examples: HB45 removes only six hundred words (i.e. a little over one side of a page), whereas, Alabama citizens would lose thirteen out of thirty-six citizen’s rights and all references to the fact that power comes from the people not the government. HB 45 also deletes section 32 outlawing slavery and involuntary servitude. HB 48 Section 235 affects Imminent Domain. The new change would allow NGO’s and special interest groups (entities) to confiscate private property. Article 7 removes the state superintendent from the list of officials who can be impeached for misuse of powers. HB 46 weakens our state sovereignty.

In short, special interests through these deceptive bills are trying to burn our constitution to create a smoke screen that would blind our legislature to their true purpose-to unfairly increase taxes, to remove citizen’s rights and to take the power from the people and to place it in the hands of an oppressive government.

Alliance for Citizen’s Rights
Kenneth Freeman-Chairman

TEXT FROM THE PROPOSED 2002 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

HB45

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HB49

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