“Please tell your Representative and Senators. The hardwired message says simply: Co-sponsor the ‘Surveillance State Repeal Act (HR 2818).’ You may borrow from or copy these additional sample comments: ‘HR 2818 repeals the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act. It prohibits the unconstitutional harvesting of my phone calls and emails. It prevents my providers from being forced to give the NSA ‘back door’ access to encryption systems that protect my information. As the New York Times argues, ‘If back doors are built into systems by the N.S.A., who is to say that other countries’ spy agencies — or hackers, pirates and terrorists — won’t discover and exploit them?'”
http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/the-ny-times-is-as-fedup-as-you-are
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