Activist calls for action against US ‘oppression’
After media revealed a top secret surveillance program run by the National Security Agency (NSA) activists now say it’s time to move against the government “oppression” of U.S. citizens.
“The words written on pieces of paper 225 years ago don’t guarantee the right of freedom of speech or to protest, we have to fight for it,” Joe Iosbaker, leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition, said to the U.S. Desk on Monday.
“Today activists find themselves at the mercy of an expanded national security state that has turned inward on the people of the U.S.,” the member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression added.
The U.S. always points fingers at other governments for supposedly spying on their own people while it does everything to gain information on Americans’ personal lives, Iosbaker said.
Last week, the U.S. government acknowledged that the top-secret NSA is gathering Internet users’ personal data from the computer servers of at least nine large Web service providers.
The revelations caused growing outrage among civil liberties advocates in the country.
According to U.S. law, the government cannot snoop inside the country but its spies can freely eavesdrop on the communications of foreigners who also might live in countries with close ties to Washington.
That gives the U.S. the ability to provide its allies unlimited data about their citizens’ Internet communication through a program that would be illegal in those countries.
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After media revealed a top secret surveillance program run by the National Security Agency (NSA) activists now say it’s time to move against the government “oppression” of U.S. citizens.
“The words written on pieces of paper 225 years ago don’t guarantee the right of freedom of speech or to protest, we have to fight for it,” Joe Iosbaker, leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition, said to the U.S. Desk on Monday.
“Today activists find themselves at the mercy of an expanded national security state that has turned inward on the people of the U.S.,” the member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression added.
The U.S. always points fingers at other governments for supposedly spying on their own people while it does everything to gain information on Americans’ personal lives, Iosbaker said.
Last week, the U.S. government acknowledged that the top-secret NSA is gathering Internet users’ personal data from the computer servers of at least nine large Web service providers.
The revelations caused growing outrage among civil liberties advocates in the country.
According to U.S. law, the government cannot snoop inside the country but its spies can freely eavesdrop on the communications of foreigners who also might live in countries with close ties to Washington.
That gives the U.S. the ability to provide its allies unlimited data about their citizens’ Internet communication through a program that would be illegal in those countries.
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