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Monday, November 26, 2012

FROM DOWNSIZE DC - AND REMEMBER, TOLL FREE TO CONGRESS IS 866-220-0044

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Quote of the Day: "Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference." - Ludwig von Mises
Should federal agencies search your email without a warrant?
You may have read the CNET article on a bill empowering 22 federal agencies to search your email without a search warrant.
The backlash was so swift and powerful that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy denied the CNET article.
But the story doesn't end there...
Friends inside DC tell us that Ranking Member Senator Charles Grassley will propose even worse amendments this week.
Please tell your Senators to oppose Republican Grassley's amendments using DownsizeDC.org's Hands Off the Internet campaign.
You may borrow from or copy this sample letter...
I support amendments to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act requiring search warrants before federal agents can examine my emails and other electronic communication.
Apparently, Sen. Grassley wants the opposite. He'd empower two dozen or more federal agencies to read my email without a warrant.
I do not consent!
Consider, in the Petraeus scandal...
* The FBI may have accessed Paula Broadwell's email accounts without a warrant
* Instead of investigating a crime, the FBI examined private emails HUNTING for a crime
As a result, they brought down one of the most powerful men in Washington. http://wapo.st/XTAoFw
If this can happen to someone as powerful as the head of the CIA, how much greater is the danger of Grassley's amendments to me?
Do you want J. Edgar Hoover-style monitoring of YOUR activities?
Grassley claims he's complying with the demands of law enforcement. But the Fourth Amendment protects my email just as much as it protects my home. Let me be clear...
If law enforcement agents tell you that the Fourth Amendment keeps them from doing their jobs, they should be fired for their anti-Constitutional attitude!
PREVENT federal agents from violating the Fourth Amendment.
Defeat any privacy-invading amendments.
I'll be watching what you do.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012


Campaign for Liberty


This coming week, Congress is set to take up another so-called "cybersecurity" bill, H.R. 3523, the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011" (CISPA).

And this time, many of those who joined us to stop SOPA and PIPA are supporting this legislation.

So only the immediate action of you and your fellow C4L members can help protect our privacy from the government's ever-expanding reach.

After our victory over SOPA/PIPA, I wrote to you in late February about the need to stay vigilant against Congress' attempts to assert more control over the Internet.

Well, since then, Republicans and Democrats have introduced at least four major "cybersecurity" bills.

Expanding government power is always bipartisan.

CISPA, sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers (MI-8), is promoted as a harmless bill that will enable voluntary "information sharing" between private corporations and government agencies in the name of "cybersecurity."

Unfortunately, it would allow the transfer of vast amounts of data, including information like your Internet browsing history or email content, to any agency in the federal government, including non-civilian agencies such as the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command.

One major problem with these alleged "cybersecurity" bills is their overly broad focus on what information private companies are encouraged to share with federal agencies.

CISPA currently contains no incentive for private companies like Facebook or Google to remove personally identifiable information from data they share.

In addition, the way this legislation is drafted, it currently overrides privacy presumptions found in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Communications Act regarding the privacy of an individual's online communications and related records.

Essentially, CISPA would deem all existing privacy laws null and void for "cybersecurity" purposes.

Once the government has this information, there are no meaningful restrictions on its use, as its only qualifier is that it must be related to "cybersecurity" or to protect "national security."

As C4L members know too well, "national security" has become a catch-all excuse for government powergrabs since 9/11.

Finally, while the bill includes a requirement for the Director of National Intelligence's Inspector General to issue annual reports on how the government is using the information shared under the bill, such reports would only be provided to congressional intelligence committees.

These reports would not constitute meaningful restrictions or do anything to dissuade the misuse of personal information shared under CISPA.

As I hinted at earlier, unlike the January 18 "Internet blackout" over SOPA and PIPA, this time Internet giants like Facebook and Twitter are openly supporting CISPA, along with powerful special interest groups like the US Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, don't expect the cavalry to back us up on this one.

And House Leadership is currently engaged in a full-court press effort to get your representative to support H.R. 3523.

Sources on the Hill have informed us of "members only" meetings, where representatives are being encouraged to vote for CISPA as a "national security" issue addressing a "credible" "cybersecurity threat."

I'm sure it's only a coincidence that this briefing comes conveniently just ahead of when the establishment wants to ram something through.

In the face of such longshot odds, without your immediate action, I can't promise that we have even the slightest chance of beating back this egregious invasion of your privacy.

But, I've seen the power the liberty movement can have when it speaks out with a unified voice.

And you better believe members of Congress have taken notice, too.

That’s why I hope you’ll contact Congress right away.

Click here to find your representative’s information.

And after you’ve contacted Congress, please forward this email to at least five friends or family members encouraging them to do the same.

Finally, your chip-in contribution of at least $10 or $25 will help Campaign for Liberty mobilize as many Americans as possible to take action on critical issues like CISPA and other so-called "cybersecurity" bills that would strip more privacy away from Americans.

This fight won't have the glamour or media attention that SOPA and PIPA received, so please take action immediately and show Congress the liberty movement is serious about defending our constitutionally protected rights no matter the odds.

In Liberty,

Campaign for Liberty

Matt Hawes
Vice President


P.S. Internet giants like Facebook and Twitter are openly supporting H.R. 3523, the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011" (CISPA) - the latest plan from Congress to further infringe on Americans' privacy.

It’s up to the liberty movement to take action and stop CISPA in its tracks! Please contact your representative immediately and demand a "NO" vote on H.R. 3523 and any similar legislation!

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

STOP SOPA! LIGHTS OUT ON THE CREEK ON JANUARY 24 FROM 8 A.M. TO 8 P.M.

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=ira8vadab&v=001v2ezZPmZ_iuCKMtq-HZwrusj9pFz83Ap66w5SmuZJ2fRCBYvaCIdlyCaoh0MIQgOKpNyrcLsqI4u9t_j-0bd_HLtYYxXnaHSAtCkhBkig_I%3D

We need to keep the internet free, so please support me and my fellow bloggers by not using the internet at all.

No bill paying.
No messaging.
No tweeting.
No Facebook.
No MySpace.
No texting.
NO Social Networking.
No buying.
No selling.
NO EMAIL!

Not even Skype.

Just say NO and don't turn it on for 12 hours.

Just 12 HOURS!

This is dangerous legislation, and if you get internet withdrawal and use the net, you will pay, literally, for your dismissal of the warnings.

So please support your free internet and stop SOPA in its tracks!

Thank you!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS: FEMA PULLS DOCUMENT ON THE COMING LOCKDOWN

http://visiontoamerica.org/6632/fema-pulls-document-on-the-coming-lockdown/

I will say it again.

In my bones, I feel that there will be a major "incident", (terrorist driven of course), before the election. Maybe Bernanke will crash the dollar and the bank holiday will start and all of you who believe it can't happen to you may be penniless overnight.

Maybe it will nuclear.

Maybe it will be a huge 911-type event.

You can bet it will be a Hegelian generated event by a corrupt government in consort with the global elite to bring us to our knees, and suspend the Constitution and that's why there will be chaos, police will turn in their uniforms for "brown shirts", the TSA and the DHS have grown into the civilian army as well funded and supplied as the military - meaning tanks in the street, armed soldiers with automatic weapons in their hands, food rationing, disarming of the people.
You will do anything to feed yourself and your family. Anything. ANYTHING.

This will happen before the election because the globalists MUST have control of our country. It doesn't fit the profile. NO ONE can be free from the rule.

I hope to God I am wrong.

But maybe I'm not. Look at the news just in the past month and a half - read it here.

Even talk radio hosts are saying there will be no elections, and expect martial law.

I'm pretty vocal locally. I have said this early on after the elections repeatedly. First I was laughed at and dismissed. Now, they are listening to me and agreeing.

Be so careful. We are under surveillance everywhere.

Prepare.

It will come at night when you least expect it - the bank holiday; the placement of troops surrounding neighborhoods to take your possessions, your firearms, kill your pets (a prime way of causing havoc, shock and degradation to you), and if you resist, they will kill you. Because you're on the way to the FEMA camps which are patterned on the Nazi concentration camps. The terrorists are here all right.

The military will follow orders. So will law enforcement because they are federalized and militarized.

We don't live in interesting times. We live in terrifying times - but we WILL survive.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

SOPA IS THE END OF POLITICAL BLOGGERS

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70878.html

So much for freedom of speech. What next? Newspapers? TV?

Isn't it fun living in Obamaland, jungle of evil?