{"id":2016,"date":"2007-07-25T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/pearce-wins-immunity-for-reporting-suspicious-activity\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T17:23:00","slug":"pearce-wins-immunity-for-reporting-suspicious-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/pearce-wins-immunity-for-reporting-suspicious-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce wins immunity for reporting suspicious activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In case you haven\u2019t noticed lately, I really like when congressional offices provide video for blogs. Our state\u2019s representatives and senators often get lost in the shuffle in Washington, and the video is a way to not only be assured that they\u2019re paying attention to issues about which New Mexicans care, but to also see exactly what they said. <\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce<\/a> has begun providing such video. Today, Democratic leadership in the House and Senate decided to include a provision in the Homeland Security Bill he sponsored that would give civil immunity to citizens who report suspected terrorism.<\/p>\n

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The move follows outcry the resulted from the Democrats stripping the provision last week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am pleased to see that the pressure we created led Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid to make the right decision about protecting alert Americans,\u201d Pearce said in a news release. \u201cThe American people shouldn\u2019t have to think twice about alerting security and law enforcement to potential terrorist attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The provision, sponsored by Pearce and Sen. Joe Lieberman<\/a>, D-Conn., came in response to an incident in November when six Muslim imams were removed from an airline flight after passengers and crew members reported suspicious activity. They chanted \u201cAllah,\u201d criticized the United States<\/st1:country-region>\u2019 war in Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and switched seats before takeoff.<\/p>\n

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The imams sued, saying they were discriminated against and, in doing so, identified the passengers and airline employees who reported suspicious activity so they could be named as defendants. Pearce\u2019s provision would protect such reporters from identification and lawsuits so they\u2019re not afraid to report suspicious activity.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the video of Pearce originally offering the provision in March. It\u2019s just over three minutes long.<\/p>\n

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A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated Pearce offered the provision in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you haven\u2019t noticed lately, I really like when congressional offices provide video for blogs. Our state\u2019s representatives and senators often get lost in the shuffle in Washington, and the video is a way to not only be assured that they\u2019re paying attention to issues about which New Mexicans care, but to also see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}