Senate Voting on NSA Surveillance - Voice your opinion

[cursichella1]

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Big news. The Senate is planning to vote on NSA surveillance reform this week. If the USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685) passes, it will be the first law to limit the NSA's spying power in almost thirty years.

We’re asking friends of EFF to call their Senators today and urge them to pass the strongest bill possible. Not in the United States? Sign our petition against mass surveillance instead.

The new Senate version of the USA FREEDOM Act would:
Rein in the NSA's illegal collection of millions of Americans' telephone records by amending one of the worst provisions of the Patriot Act, Section 215.
Create a special advocate whom the secret surveillance court can appoint to argue for civil liberties and privacy in proceedings that raise novel or significant legal issues.
Provide new reporting requirements about surveillance, so that the NSA is forced to tell us how many people are actually being surveilled under its programs, including the program that allows the NSA to see the contents of Americans' communications without a warrant.

Hundreds of thousands of people from across the political spectrum have called on Congress to stop mass spying by the NSA. Next week, it all comes to a head. But it won’t be smooth sailing: we expect NSA apologists to try to weaken the bill with last-minute amendments. That’s why we need people who care about privacy to call their senators and demand real reform. Make the call.

The USA FREEDOM Act isn’t everything we want in surveillance reform. Real reform means ending mass Internet surveillance of people in the US and abroad. It also means overhauling the broken classification system, which has hidden from public oversight government surveillance practices that affect us all. The USA FREEDOM Act isn’t a solution to all these problems, but it is a strong step on the path to reform. It will put in place measures that can help rein in NSA spying today and prove to Congress that there is a powerful movement of people working to end mass surveillance.

The vote is this week.

LINK:
Call Right Now

https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/m...reset=1&id=816

[amor]

How can a strictly ceremonial congress affect the NWO strategy of a non-governmental corporation such as the NSA which has a security classification above the phoney president?

[Nasu]

Hope they drag them over the coals, but won't hold my breath, "That’s why we need people who care about privacy to call their senators and demand real reform. Make the call" here's the main obstical though, people who trully care about their privacy are the last kind of people to be calling senators, never mind on the topic of NSA eavesdropping programs!!

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.... N

[Michael Moewes]

signed. the nsa is an outdated, useless fart on this planet. but who can stop a fart ?

[Meggings]

I believe there certainly is value in stating our firm "no" to control. I signed the petition. Consider that the young genius Aaron Swartz, responsible for Creative Commons and Reddit and much work against SOPA's efforts to curtail the internet, was murdered by the hidden cabal. If we want to be free, we must say "no" to control - not fight against, but to be heard. Enough of us speaking truth publicy has effect.