Screen Actors Guild Aids Department Of Homeland Security In Patriot Act Violations

Screen Actors Guild and Screen Actors Guild Pension and Health Plans have been implicated in disclosing protected health information pertaining to Producer/Director BJ Davis, Screenwriter Julia Davis, their relatives and dependents to the Department of Homeland Security. Under the guise of protecting homeland security, Internal Affairs Agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Jeffrey J. Deal and Herbert P. Kaufer have requested and obtained medical, insurance and identification information pertaining to BJ and Julia Davis and their family members, whereby SAG/SAG PHP disclosed to Kaufer and Deal medical information pertaining to a total of eleven (11) persons.

Julia Davis is a former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer, who made serious whistleblowing disclosures involving national security. Agents Kaufer and Deal have been instrumental in the series of unprecedented actions by the Department of Homeland Security, designed to discredit Julia Davis in an attempt to invalidate her terrorism-related protected disclosures, as reflected in the recently published book "Unsafe At Any Altitude" by Pulitzer Prize nominated investigative journalists Joe and Susan Trento.

The disclosure of highly private medical and insurance records by the Screen Actors Guild is the latest in the already long list of unconstitutional actions against BJ and Julia Davis by the Department of Homeland Security. In 2005, ICE and CBP misused government's anti-terrorism funding to conduct a Blackhawk helicopter raid of the Davis' residence, complete with twenty seven (27) Special Response Team (SRT) Agents armed with assault weapons, after subjecting BJ and Julia Davis to two years of warrantless surveillance, conducting warrantless searches and falsely declaring Julia Davis to be a "domestic terrorist" and a "murderer". The DHS was instrumental in organizing two malicious prosecutions and two false imprisonments of BJ and Julia Davis, although all charges against them were subsequently dismissed, BJ and Julia Davis were declared factually innocent, their arrest records were ordered sealed and destroyed and the government was ordered to return proceeds of both warrantless searches. Julia Davis won a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, which the agency is still refusing to honor.

Producer/Director BJ Davis is a thirty year signatory member with the Screen Actors Guild. In addition to releasing protected medical records to the DHS, SAG unlawfully released payroll, tax, medical, insurance and other information pertaining to BJ and Julia Davis to a group of actors formerly employed by Producer/Director BJ Davis in his latest award-winning film.

These and other related events are currently being investigated by the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Protection (CCCP), with a recent request for an official congressional inquiry. In an official statement, CCCP Chairman B. Harris stated: "There is a growing concern amongst American citizens as to the Law enforcement officials' misuse of the tools designed for fighting terrorism that are instead being utilized to compromise the constitutional rights and violate the right to privacy of all Americans".

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin.

B. Harris is the Chairman of the Citizens Committee for Constitutional Protection. For more information visit http://www.DepartmentofHomelandSecurityExposed.com

B. Harris
Citizens Committee for Homeland Security
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Copyright Violations and International Challenges

Many authors and publishers have been quite alarmed to find their books pirated, and reproduced in other nations and then distributed throughout the world. There have been big cases where stories from very famous authors have been pirated by the container loads. This happens all over the world, and it has been a big issue in China, probably because they produce most of the world's books now.

Imagine a pirating publisher taking all the books on the New York Times bestseller list, and printing tens of thousands of each, putting them into containers and shipping them to the United States for sale in our markets. Also, shipping the same books to many other countries before our publishers get the actual books on the shelves and into those markets. Yes, this is a serious issue.

Indeed, there was a very interesting article the other day in the Los Angeles times titled "China Gives a Shred about Piracy" by Barbara Demick reporting from Beijing China. The article explained that the Chinese government in Beijing had found pirated DVDs, books, and even magazines and they were destroying them. There was even a picture of a large Caterpillar skip loader moving everything into a pile to be burned. Indeed, it seems like a big waste of money to do that, but Beijing figures that it's the best way to send a message to prevent copyright infringement and piracy.

China now has The National Copyright Administration and the leadership in China wants everyone to know around the world that they are trying to stop the problem of copyright violations. This is a very good thing and it's going to make most of their trading partners quite happy, as it has been a very big complaint for a number of years. Indeed, China is also worried about copyright infringements concerning its own material now, as other countries are copying Chinese produced material, and now they understand the economic loss that can occur.

Yes, China is growing up and they are joining the world in getting rid of copyrighted contraband and pirated material. Some critics charge that this is merely a ploy and a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of cargo containers shipped all over the world of pirated products, and copyrighted material.

Perhaps, there is some truth to both sides of this debate, but just the fact that China is stepping up to the plate to do this, and to make a very public statement shows that things are improving. And that is a good thing. Indeed, hope you'll please consider all this and think on it.

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