{"id":2264,"date":"2013-06-12T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T15:20:05","slug":"the-nsa-is-spying-on-you-here-is-how-you-should-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/12\/the-nsa-is-spying-on-you-here-is-how-you-should-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The NSA is Spying on You \u2014 Here is How You Should Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, \u201cAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.\u201d Meanwhile, our president claims that we cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy and that as a society we have to make some choices. To that I say, no Mr. President, we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look, for example, at the recent attacks in Boston. Our government was violating our rights, trolling through millions of phone records, sifting through mountains of data and yet still didn\u2019t notice, or didn\u2019t notice enough, that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was traveling to Chechnya. Perhaps instead of treating every American as a potential terror suspect, the government should concentrate on more targeted analysis and an analysis that doesn\u2019t violate the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n

This assault on personal privacy affects the Facebook generation more than anyone else. Your generation is completely digitized and uploaded. Everything you do is traceable via phone, email and bank records. And it is you, more than anyone, who should be outraged by this astounding assault on your constitutional right to personal privacy.<\/p>\n

I hear people say, \u201cWell if you aren\u2019t doing anything wrong, then the government will leave you alone.\u201d But over the last month and a half, this administration has proved that they will target anyone. Under this administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has targeted political dissidents, the Department of Justice has seized reporters\u2019 phone records, and now we\u2019ve learned the NSA seized an unlimited amount of Verizon\u2019s client data. So, do you really expect us to trust a government that admittedly targets innocent citizens without probable cause? These overreaching acts are unacceptable under any president, whether Democrat or Republican.<\/p>\n

This issue has made for some strange bedfellows in Washington. You have some of my fellow Republicans \u2013 I like to call moss-covered \u2013 defending Barack Obama\u2019s violation of your rights. Meanwhile, I am being joined by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), left\u2013leaning journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Republican Congressman and author of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensebrenner (R-Wisc.).<\/p>\n

It is clear that this issue is not about party politics. It is about protecting the civil liberties that our Founding Fathers fought a revolution for. And issues such as this really show you how your political leaders feel about your rights.<\/p>\n

Full article: http:\/\/www.policymic \u2026 ou-should-fight-back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, \u201cAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.\u201d Meanwhile, our president claims that we cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy and that as a society we have to make some choices. To that I say, no Mr. President, we don\u2019t. Let\u2019s look, for example, at the recent attacks in Boston. Our government was violating our rights, trolling through millions of phone records, sifting through mountains of data and yet still didn\u2019t notice, or didn\u2019t notice enough, that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was traveling to Chechnya. Perhaps instead of treating every American as a potential terror suspect, the government should concentrate on more targeted analysis and an analysis that doesn\u2019t violate the Bill of Rights. This assault on personal privacy affects the Facebook generation more than anyone else. Your generation is completely digitized and uploaded. Everything you do is traceable via phone, email and bank records. And it is you, more than anyone, who should be outraged by this astounding assault on your constitutional right to personal privacy. I hear people say, \u201cWell if you aren\u2019t doing anything wrong, then the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1245,1373,1425,1879],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-nsa","tag-prism","tag-rand-paul","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}