TO DO: PATRIOT Act
Source: RootsAction Team

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RootsAction is proud to join with our friends at People For the American Way in working to repeal dangerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.  Click here to tell Congress it's time to fix this problem. Please read the following message from PFAW and forward it to all your friends: Tell Congress: Protect Americans' privacy! Repeal the most troubling sections of the PATRIOT Act! No administration should be trusted with such broad and loosely defined power to spy on Americans. Sign the Petition Recent revelations about the scope and extreme secrecy of the government’s surveillance programs show deep flaws in the legal boundaries surrounding those programs -- in particular, that there barely seem to be any! This is in large part due to dangerous provisions of 2001’s USA PATRIOT Act, which PFAW has fought to fix or repeal since its passage. Tell members of Congress it’s time they take another look at the PATRIOT Act and repeal those provisions. The powers the PATRIOT Act grants to the executive branch were dangerously broad when it was passed, and they’re dangerously broad now. It seems evident neither the standard of judicial review for the authorization of surveillance activities nor the one-sided nature of the process has adequately protected Americans’ constitutional right to privacy. This is so even if the government fully complied with the law -- and that’s perhaps the most troubling part. It appears as though the government is failing to strike the appropriate balance between keeping Americans’ safe and protecting our basic constitutional rights to privacy and due process. Even worse, the PATRIOT Act as it is written and interpreted cripples our public debate about how we balance our security and our liberty. Congressional critics of the Act have been prevented from speaking publicly and ordinary citizens have been left in the dark about what’s being done in their name. That’s no way to run a democracy. Tell Congress: It’s time to repeal the most troubling sections of the PATRIOT Act. Specifically, Section 215: the business records provision (a.k.a. the “library records provision”); Section 206: the roving wiretap provision; and Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevent Act: the so-called “lone wolf” provision, need to be addressed -- most urgently Sec. 215, under which the much publicized Verizon phone records were collected. Please act now to help rein in government overreach. No administration should be trusted with such broad and loosely defined power to spy on Americans. Thank you for standing up for your constitutional rights.