Commondreams.org, By: Jacob Chamberlain, 08/04/2013
Thousands of people are expected to rally in cities across the U.S. on Sunday in protest of the National Security Agency's recently exposed dragnet surveillance programs, in what organizers from the group Restore the Fourth are calling 1984 Day.
Protesters in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis, Raleigh, Austin, and other cities have scheduled marches, rallies, and other events to "draw attention to the NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance programs," in the name of protecting the principles of the U.S. constitution's fourth amendment.
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Another Republican backed ploy.
If what the NSA is doing is keeping you and me safe, and has judicial oversight, what exactly makes it unconstitutional. How can we track whether or not there have actually been terrorists plots averted using the tactics that they employ. The rallies are not aimed at the NSA per se, but at the current administration, which by the way, has very little say-so on how the NSA conducts its surveillance. It would be better served if the sign made the proper connection to the real power behind the NSA actions, Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, a Rebublican nominated appointee.