Tell the Senate to Stop CISPA!

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a bill that allows companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government. U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA 18) joined those who voted to pass this bill, just as he has voted to pass several other bills that undermine our constitutional protections.

If it is true that we are all born naturally free and that the law exists to protect rather than infringe upon our natural liberties, then this act is hardly a law at all but a gross perversion of the law. Having already passed the U.S. House of Representatives, this bill will now go before the U.S. Senate.

Now is the time for you to call your senators.

When you call, be sure to remind our U.S. Senators that truly patriotic Americans believe their rights are natural and God given, not granted by any earthly authority, so they therefore precede and supercede all acts and laws written by any government.

This is why we reserve and guard closely our natural right to self-defense epitomized in our second amendment and why those of us with understanding tire of the constant attack against all of them. The second amendment was written for the people's use in case of emergency, in dire times when the American people may find themselves completely disenfranchised as voters and citizens—threatened, occupied, searched, their property seized, their money confiscated via over taxation, and their pursuits of happiness over-regulated by the rule of tyrants who are unmoved by sound philosophy and economic reason—ignorant of their duty-bound responsibilities to follow our constitution to promote and defend our individual liberties from all threats, both foreign and domestic.

Refresh in their minds the fact that in our country, unlike any other, we believe that our rights are inalienable—meaning we have them because we are free human beings—endowed by God and nature, not by citizenship. Do not hang up until you have reminded them that according to the laws of our constitutional republic, which unite the states comprising America, every individual suspected of violating the law is protected from unwarranted searches and seizures, and that any agent of the government or their proxy must obtain a search warrant by presenting evidence to an impartial judge before such a warrant may be granted.

Further inform them of the fact that the constitution stipulates that whenever an individual is accused of violating the law, they are entitled to due process and a trial by an impartial jury of their peers to thoroughly examine all of the evidence and to permit them to defend themselves before their life, liberty or property may be lawfully taken from them as a punishment.

Ask them if they have formally declared war on the American people or our liberties, or if they have formally declared war upon any people in the world, which is their duty prior to engaging the use of our military and the raiding of our pockets to fund such endeavors.

Tell them that Americans will not tolerate big-brother surveillance of their natural freedoms including the freedom to read and the freedom to speak with others in real life or in cyberspace.

Tell them that the American people will not tolerate this legislation because we will not permit the threat it implies to our liberties from companies we do business with and Internet services we use—potentially to voice our rightful growing dissent with the government—reporting our information and activities to an agent of the government and potentially initiating against us the use of prior unconstitutional acts that have been passed by the congress and signed into law by our presidents.

Tell them to stand firm against potentially tyrannical and dangerous legislation. Accept nothing less than their full understanding and agreement with you and be sure they vote accordingly.

Pick up the phone and call your senators. Tell them to vote NO to CISPA! Please be polite, I'm afraid we'll be needing to call them a lot more often than we should otherwise need to given their apparent agenda for America.

TELL YOUR SENATORS TO VOTE “NO” TO ANY SENATE VERSIONS OF THE “CYBER INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND PROTECTION ACT”:

Ask for their D.C. Office Contact Person

Senator Pat Toomey

Pittsburgh Office: 412-803-3501; Washington, D.C. Office: 202-224-4254

Senator Robert Casey, Jr.

Pittsburgh Office: 412-803-7370; Washington, D.C. Office: 202-224-6324

Protest the surveillance and police state, and protect your personal information and identity.

Protect your email (unencrypted email is a digital post-card):

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/home/index.php.html

GNUnet Framework for Secure Peer-to-Peer Networking:

https://www.gnunet.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Naturally, the passage of CISPA by the U.S. House of Representatives has been condemned by dozens of organizations. For more information, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) below.

http://eff.org