National Call-in to Congress to Stop the Big Brother NSA Bills
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National Call-in to Congress to Stop the Big Brother NSA Bills
Take Action Now
Call Your Legislators on September 12, 2006! The BORDC and other organizations (see below) have declared the weeks of September 5 and September 11 "National Call-in to Congress Weeks" and are asking their constituents to call their members of Congress on a specific day. Let's keep those phones ringing in the Congressional halls for two weeks straight!
The Message
Please phone each of your Senators, and your Representative and urge them to:
OPPOSE Senator Specter's S.2453, Senator DeWine's S.2455, and Representative Wilson's H.R.5825.
OPPOSE any other legislation that would give the executive branch new surveillance powers that are immune to oversight by the courts and Congress
SUPPORT a full, public investigation of the NSA surveillance program.
Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 (24 hours) and ask the operator to connect you. Or enter your zip code on this page to find your legislators' phone numbers and to let us know how your calls went.
Additional sample talking points:
Congress should investigate, not legislate. The Administration has not yet answered important questions regarding the program and has blocked investigation into its authorization. A full investigation into the domestic surveillance program is urgently needed to determine the nature and scope of the spying program, as well as the facts surrounding its approval.
Congress should let the traditional court system do its job: Senator Specter's bill, S.2453, would pull all suits against the wiretapping program out of the traditional legal system and into a secret court that has no procedures for hearing argument from anyone but the administration. If anyone has broken the law, they must be held accountable by the courts.
Congress has enacted intelligence laws that are the exclusive means for conducting domestic surveillance. These laws require that the government obtain approval from a secret intelligence court before eavesdropping on Americans. The proposed new legislation would reward the Administration's stonewalling and failure to follow the laws passed by Congress. The rule of law must be restored before any further changes are considered.
We cannot allow terrorists to change the core values of America. As Americans, we believe in checks and balances, and we have a system that works. Spying on people without a judge's permission and without evidence of any crime betrays that system and violates the law.
Organizations supporting the call-in day (partial list) include American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Center for National Security Studies, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Downsize DC.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Amendment Foundation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Coalition Against Repressive Legislation, National Lawyers Guild, Open the Government, Privacy Activism
More information on NSA warrantless wiretapping is available on this BORDC webpage .
National Call-in to Congress to Stop the Big Brother NSA Bills
Take Action Now
Call Your Legislators on September 12, 2006! The BORDC and other organizations (see below) have declared the weeks of September 5 and September 11 "National Call-in to Congress Weeks" and are asking their constituents to call their members of Congress on a specific day. Let's keep those phones ringing in the Congressional halls for two weeks straight!
The Message
Please phone each of your Senators, and your Representative and urge them to:
OPPOSE Senator Specter's S.2453, Senator DeWine's S.2455, and Representative Wilson's H.R.5825.
OPPOSE any other legislation that would give the executive branch new surveillance powers that are immune to oversight by the courts and Congress
SUPPORT a full, public investigation of the NSA surveillance program.
Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 (24 hours) and ask the operator to connect you. Or enter your zip code on this page to find your legislators' phone numbers and to let us know how your calls went.
Additional sample talking points:
Congress should investigate, not legislate. The Administration has not yet answered important questions regarding the program and has blocked investigation into its authorization. A full investigation into the domestic surveillance program is urgently needed to determine the nature and scope of the spying program, as well as the facts surrounding its approval.
Congress should let the traditional court system do its job: Senator Specter's bill, S.2453, would pull all suits against the wiretapping program out of the traditional legal system and into a secret court that has no procedures for hearing argument from anyone but the administration. If anyone has broken the law, they must be held accountable by the courts.
Congress has enacted intelligence laws that are the exclusive means for conducting domestic surveillance. These laws require that the government obtain approval from a secret intelligence court before eavesdropping on Americans. The proposed new legislation would reward the Administration's stonewalling and failure to follow the laws passed by Congress. The rule of law must be restored before any further changes are considered.
We cannot allow terrorists to change the core values of America. As Americans, we believe in checks and balances, and we have a system that works. Spying on people without a judge's permission and without evidence of any crime betrays that system and violates the law.
Organizations supporting the call-in day (partial list) include American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Center for National Security Studies, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Downsize DC.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Amendment Foundation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Coalition Against Repressive Legislation, National Lawyers Guild, Open the Government, Privacy Activism
More information on NSA warrantless wiretapping is available on this BORDC webpage .
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