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IMBRA
Veterans: Uniting to Stop Internet Regulation
it started with the so-called "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act" a Gateway Law to Internet Control of All Americans and Most Foreigners
To begin with, please read this description of the law from someone who claims that part of it is OK:
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0111.html
IMBRA: After a few dating sites tried to challenge the law in 2006, a Republican federal judge in Ohio, Thomas Rose, declared that "The Supreme Court has never explicitly recognized a fundamental liberty interest in Americans meeting foreigners for relationships." Click here to see how this judge called American citizens "products" that need warning labels on the international dating market.
The IMBRA law makes it a crime for a website or introduction service, where more than 50% of one gender is foreign, to allow an American citizen to simply say hello to a foreigner who has already given permission for their contact information to be given out. The American must first submit to a background check and that must be sent to the foreigner for an additional paranoia-inducing written approval regarding contact.
Of course, the written approval is impossible for a foreigner to give if he or she does not have email or does not check email in time to catch a visit by an American to his or her country.
Like the Expatriation Act of 1907 was designed to stop American women from marrying foreigners, the IMBRA Act of 2005 is tailored to stop American men from even dating foreigners. Foreign women who don't use email cannot approve of contact with men because no agency is going to get involved in sending background check paperwork around the world by snail mail. It can be shown that dating sites are now mostly no longer introducing Americans to women without email.
This means that more than 30,000 women were blocked from communicating with Americans.
Click here or on the "Legal" tab in the upper left corner of this page to read all the court documents and text of the law. Note that the bad part of the law is on page 12 section iv. Get out your magnifying glass.
Bad laws often have flowery text that looks 99% reasonable to the lazy legislators who vote for them without having examined or even noticed the 1% of the text that is highly questionable.
Page 12 section iv of the law produces a Catch 22 because more than half of foreign women with photos on the Internet do not have email or access to computers. Thus the law would make it next to impossible for Americans and most foreigners to be introduced to each other online.
The writers of the law were aware that the onerous requirement for the foreigner to "sign approval for each contact" would simply put many international dating sites out of business entirely. To them, American men aren't supposed to be able to find an alternative to a "progressive feminist philosophy". That is the reason for the IMBRA law which strangely appeals to some on the far right as well as the far left.
Many American Christian "evangelists" are Marxists who believe that a law like this will stop American men from sexually exploiting their "inferiors," which is a bizarre and disgusting way of thinking of both American men and foreign women.
Republican veterans are dismayed at the treason displayed by fellow Republicans who voted for this law. IMBRA directly reduces their marriage options (if 100,000 women disappear from Internet dating sites, that is 100,000 marriages and maybe 200,000 children that will never exist). Traitors to all single veterans and their marriage chances included Senator Conrad Burns of Montana, Senator Jim Talent of Missouri and Senator George Allen of Virginia all of whom were given early retirement by angry male voters in 2006.
The main backer of the law, and the entity that pushed the US Government aside to defend it against lawsuits, is a radical woman's organization called the Tahirih Justice Center that provides some valid care given to a few foreign women who become victims of abuse in the USA...but which also advises non-abused immigrant women to lie or distort the truth for free citizenship that creates media publicity for American women to send donations and for radical laws like IMBRA to sail through Congress.
Read about the Tahirih Justice Center's Fraud on the American Congress with the help of America's #2 law firm Jones Day and the ethically challenged Randy Miller of the DC law firm of Arnold & Porter (ironically the same firm pushing same-sex marriage).
Click here for some sample comments taken from a Lifetime Television for Women Forum last fall. In the forum, an activist, who is likely from the Tahirih Justice Center, explains how the law is cleverly stacked to put dating sites out of business, not just regulate them. She also explains that, although it is dishonest to link sexual trafficking with dating sites, the end will justify the means if Lifetime Television for Women viewers believe the nonsense, get worked up and all write their Congresspeople.
The Tahirih Justice Center just got another law past the Congress that the media made no mention about, which makes American criminals uneligible to marry foreign women at all. Contact us to find out more about these insane new laws. These people are out of control and Republican politicians are either doing nothing to stop them or they're actually helping to write all this.
Please call Congress and ask that new hearings be held on Internet and Relationship Regulation as well as on the constitionality of funding various victim-feminist groups. Such groups just received $430 Million in taxpayer funding with the passage of the Commerce Justice & Science Appropriations Bill in October 2007. These organizations do not represent women's interests. They are milking the system for as much cash as they can get to buy their suburban Virginia farms.
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