John R. Houk
© October 31, 2013
Remember independent contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) Ed Snowden? He is the guy that made it public knowledge that the NSA was spying on ALL Americans not just foreigners - domestic and abroad – for National Security reasons to protect Americans from Islamic Terrorists (OR as the Dems would have you believe – Enemy Combatants).
I initially viewed Snowden as an American hero Whistleblower. Then the dude absconded with his NSA data to Hong Kong (cough – Communist China) and then on to Russia (Former Communist Nation [USSR] and current emerging USA rival). I then viewed Snowden as a potential espionage traitor feeding Classified secrets to American enemies. Snowden went from hero to zero.
Even though Snowden is a zero, he did enlighten the public that the NSA is operating beyond its mandate to track foreign enemies at home and abroad. Frankly this was the final straw in my support of the Patriot Act as it is now currently written. The Patriot Act is utilizing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts set up by FISA in nefarious ways against American citizens. I have to believe an insignificant Right Wing Counterjihad blogger as myself has to be worried that my Free Speech is being violated either by an unserved FISA Warrant or worse a Warrantless search of anything I touch that utilizes electronic data. I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!
Conservative Action Alerts has sent an email to support the USA Freedom Act which would place the Patriot Act back on track for its original mandate of sniffing foreign Islamic Terrorists and their supporters and ENDING Warrantless searches by such agencies as the NSA. Below is that Conservative Action Alerts email.
JRH 10/31/13
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Lawmakers introduce bill to rein in NSA - Take Action!
By Conservative Action Alerts
Sent: 10/31/2013 1:46 PM
"The days of unfettered spying on the American people are numbered..." - Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI)
ALERT: A coalition of lawmakers introduce bill to end NSA's broad, warrantless surveillance! Fax Congress - Tell them sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act!
American Conservative,
If it weren't for Nancy Pelosi's pro-snooping lobbying efforts, the House would've succeeded in placing the National Security Agency in a straightjacket back in July.
Sadly, lawmakers like Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein are more interested in defending the NSA and their unconstitutional surveillance programs than they are our privacy.
The good news is the scales are starting to tip.
Since the summer effort to rein in the NSA failed on a razor-thin line - 217 to 205 - more and more legislators on both sides of the aisle are seeing that we desperately need to restrain the federal government and its ability to spy on anyone using the internet or a cell phone literally anywhere in the world.
This week Representatives Justin Amash, John Conyers, and Jim Sensenbrenner introduced a comprehensive bill that would start to shackle the overgrown NSA and restrict them from spying on innocent Americans.
It is essential that we urge every U.S. Representative and Senator to get behind this piece of legislation right now - the Fourth Amendment restrictions on government must be applied to the digital world!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
** Sign the petition and tell Lawmakers to rein in the NSA! Add your name here.
Reforming FISA and the Patriot Act
On Tuesday, Patriot Act author Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced new legislation to limit the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance powers.
The USA FREEDOM Act - or, Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-Collection and Online Monitoring Act - aims to defend Americans' privacy by reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act.
"The NSA has gone far beyond the intent of the Patriot Act, particularly in the accumulation and storage of metadata," the Act's sponsor told National Journal. "Had Congress known that the Patriot Act has been used to collect metadata, the bill would have never been passed."
The 118-page bill would:
If it weren't for Nancy Pelosi's pro-snooping lobbying efforts, the House would've succeeded in placing the National Security Agency in a straightjacket back in July.
Sadly, lawmakers like Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein are more interested in defending the NSA and their unconstitutional surveillance programs than they are our privacy.
The good news is the scales are starting to tip.
Since the summer effort to rein in the NSA failed on a razor-thin line - 217 to 205 - more and more legislators on both sides of the aisle are seeing that we desperately need to restrain the federal government and its ability to spy on anyone using the internet or a cell phone literally anywhere in the world.
This week Representatives Justin Amash, John Conyers, and Jim Sensenbrenner introduced a comprehensive bill that would start to shackle the overgrown NSA and restrict them from spying on innocent Americans.
It is essential that we urge every U.S. Representative and Senator to get behind this piece of legislation right now - the Fourth Amendment restrictions on government must be applied to the digital world!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
** Sign the petition and tell Lawmakers to rein in the NSA! Add your name here.
Reforming FISA and the Patriot Act
On Tuesday, Patriot Act author Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced new legislation to limit the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance powers.
The USA FREEDOM Act - or, Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-Collection and Online Monitoring Act - aims to defend Americans' privacy by reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Patriot Act.
"The NSA has gone far beyond the intent of the Patriot Act, particularly in the accumulation and storage of metadata," the Act's sponsor told National Journal. "Had Congress known that the Patriot Act has been used to collect metadata, the bill would have never been passed."
The 118-page bill would:
o modify section 215 of the Patriot Act to end mass unwarranted surveillance;
o require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to provide lawmakers with court opinions and policies, thereby ending "secret" laws;
o allow internet and telecommunications companies to make public the number of NSA requests they have received;
o establish an office for a "privacy advocate" to represent the interests of Americans and their privacy before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and
o close domestic and foreign loopholes by modifying Title IV and section 702 (b) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
With the NSA's misinterpretation (abuse) of law - providing them "allowance" to spy on anyone anywhere - it is clear that the USA FREEDOM Act is essential to start ending government's ugly, unconstitutional surveillance programs.
We need to rally lawmakers right away and demand that they get behind this needed legislation in defense of our privacy.
Privacy for the people; Transparency for government!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
** Sign the petition and tell Lawmakers to rein in the NSA! Add your name here.
End the Witch Hunt
Dianne Feinstein has defended the NSA tooth-and-nail - even claiming that the intelligence agency's expansive surveillance is "not surveillance."
Feinstein, Pelosi, et. al. are dedicated to defending Obama's Surveillance State and are doing their very best to once again shut their opposition down. But we can't let them succeed -- we've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.
We can't let this happen. We've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.
Judge Andrew Napolitano has it right; he says:
We need to rally lawmakers right away and demand that they get behind this needed legislation in defense of our privacy.
Privacy for the people; Transparency for government!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
** Sign the petition and tell Lawmakers to rein in the NSA! Add your name here.
End the Witch Hunt
Dianne Feinstein has defended the NSA tooth-and-nail - even claiming that the intelligence agency's expansive surveillance is "not surveillance."
Feinstein, Pelosi, et. al. are dedicated to defending Obama's Surveillance State and are doing their very best to once again shut their opposition down. But we can't let them succeed -- we've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.
We can't let this happen. We've got to win this fight for liberty, privacy, and the rule of law.
Judge Andrew Napolitano has it right; he says:
"What will become of us if the feds can watch our every move and hear our every conversation and learn our every expenditure and read our every email and find out what we eat and whom we love and how we live? ... History teaches that a government on a witch hunt, unconstrained by law or Constitution, will not stop until it can brand someone as a witch. And an unbridled inquisition will not stop until it finds a heretic. The Constitution simply never entrusted the people who run the government with this awesome power. Rather, in the Fourth Amendment, it prohibited it."
With the federal government regularly surveilling our phone metadata, emails, and other forms of digital communication, it's time for U.S. lawmakers to stand up, defend our privacy, and end the NSA's unconstitutional spying.
Since whistleblower Ed Snowden first revealed the magnitude of the federal government's spying programs, the catalogue of evidence proving the government's lawless activities has only grown. This is why we've got to take action now.
It's time for We the People to demand the NSA's lawbreaking be put to an end!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
Since whistleblower Ed Snowden first revealed the magnitude of the federal government's spying programs, the catalogue of evidence proving the government's lawless activities has only grown. This is why we've got to take action now.
It's time for We the People to demand the NSA's lawbreaking be put to an end!
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
For America,
Conservative Action Alerts
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P.S. Sign our petition to rein in the National Security Agency! Sign and send a no-cost message to your U.S. Representative and Senators! Add your name here.
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
Conservative Action Alerts
www.ConservativeActionAlerts.com
P.S. Sign our petition to rein in the National Security Agency! Sign and send a no-cost message to your U.S. Representative and Senators! Add your name here.
Take Action - Tell lawmakers to sponsor the USA FREEDOM Act to end the National Security Agency's broad, warrantless surveillance powers!
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Get on Board to END Warrantless Searches
John R. Houk
© October 31, 2013
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Lawmakers introduce bill to rein in NSA - Take Action!
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