AT ITS ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, ON MARCH 4, 2003, THE VOTERS OF WAITSFIELD, VERMONT APPROVED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION:
NON-BINDING RESOLUTION TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
We, the voters of the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont, gathered today at this Town Meeting, and voting from the floor, do resolve to direct our Town Clerk to notify all of our local, state and federal representatives to do all in their power to rescind parts of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Act, and recent Federal Executive orders which threaten our most precious civil liberties; freedom of speech, assembly, privacy, protections from unreasonable searches and seizures, wire tapping, access to personal records of all kinds, and the right to legal counsel. We further resolve that the Freedom of Information Act be upheld and that citizens have the right to be notified of any investigations being undertaken by the FBI, or any other branch of government, when there is no evidence of a crime and no court order.
/s/ Sandra J. Gallup
TOWN CLERK