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The government is monitoring private phone calls

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your children and my children's private phone calls[br]and tracking who their associates are.

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This June we learned that out private lives are no longer private.

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The US government is secretly tracking the emails

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purchases, text messages, location [br]and phone calls of people all over the world.

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Ed Rooney, Ed? This is George Peterson...

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With code names like PRISM and XKEYSCORE,

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this network of monitoring programs

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is just one part of largest surveillance system in history.

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This open-ended surveillance system is illegal and operates in total secrecy.

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Under the system, the government [br]can know where you've been,

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where you are, and where you're going.

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The program was only exposed when former [br]NSA contractor Edward Snowden

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leaked documents detailing the extensive data collection.

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I've got information man, new shit is come to light.

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The president, the NSA and their lawyers[br]have tried to deflect the public outrage

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by distorting the facts and misleading the public about the process.

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US courts have never allowed the government[br]to run a spying program of this scale.

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So how did this happen?

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Well, lets take a step back, for a minute.

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America's founders hated oppressive British [br]surveillance and unreasonable search and seizure.

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the issue here is independence.

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Understanding that privacy was necessary to almost[br]every basic right in our constitution,

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they established the fourth amendment.

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The fourth amendment exist to prevent the government from tracking or searching your personal information,

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unless they have good reason to believe a crime is happening.

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It's all there black and white, clear as crystal.

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Using the NSA the US government is violating[br]the highest law of the country, the Constitution.

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Government surveillance has gone on for decades, [br]but things got a lot worse in 2001,

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when the US congress passed the Patriot Act,

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giving secret FISA courts more authority to[br]grant surveillance requests on a large scale.

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Instead of getting a warrant for an[br]individual person suspected of crime

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the governement could now search a large list of persons.

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Even those under the no suspicion of criminal activity.

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FISA courts aren't required to disclose [br]what court orders are being approved

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and supporting evidence isn't needed.

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Of the 1,789 request for authorization, [br]one was withdrawn by the government.

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All the other ones were granted

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It's a rubber stamp.

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All of this is protected by secrecy, [br]with no system for checks and balances.

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If the NSA is collecting information on you [br]based on what you read, or the websites you go to

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you'll likely never know or get to[br]stop it no matter who you are.

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Programs like PRISM, [br]completely ignore the purpose of warrants

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while claiming to work within the law.

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The US government has turned the internet[br]we love into something it was never intended to be...

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...a tool for surveilling everyone.

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This is the most essential problem.

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Through these secret courts [br]and secret interpretations of the laws,

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US government agents can illegally track [br]internet users based on things like keywords,

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Analysts who use a system for a web portal[br]at Fort Mead,

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key in selectors or search terms that are[br]designed to produce at least 51% confidence

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in a targets foreign-ness.

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Data has been collected for years [br]on the most popular websites,

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gmail, facebook, yahoo, and many more.

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There's 1000s of words that government tracks.

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Words like "marijuana"

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Almost any email you send

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might get your account monitored.

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This kind of tracking can make you[br]second guess what you say.

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That's why mass spying is unconstitutional.

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Abuses are inevitable and data leaks are already happening.

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Spying on our internet usage gives the[br]government power over our lives.

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What happens to free speech,[br]free association, or a free press,

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when everyone is under constant surveillance, [br]even in our most private moments.

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Experts on surveillance, privacy [br]and intelligence agree on one thing.

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The NSA, Presidents Bush and Obama[br]and their secret courts are

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interpreting multiple laws in a way that [br]most Americans would find shocking.

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This is allowing the kind of surveillance and collection

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that the Constitution was not meant to allow.

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These programs break the law.

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They violate the fourth amendment and they strip us of our privacy.

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The US Constitution was written to prevent[br]government surveillance programs like PRISM.

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It's up to us to demand [br]that these ideals be upheld.

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Help us stop the NSA, restore the Constitution[br]and keep the world free.