Demonstarator memegang sehingga tanda “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
MADAyuMadyan - 12 tahun selepas Amerika telah dilucutkan hak-hak mereka atas nama memerangi keganasan, beribu-ribu berkumpul di Washington DC untuk membantah perlembagaan NSA mengintip program didedahkan oleh Edward Snowden, dan panggilan untuk memansuhkan Akta Patriot.
Hentikan Memerhati Kami kempen menuntut reformasi “Seksyen 215 Amerika Syarikat Akta Patriot, rahsia keistimewaan negeri, dan Pindaan Akta FISA untuk membuat jelas bahawa pengawasan selimut aktiviti internet dan rekod telefon daripada mana-mana orang yang tinggal di Amerika Syarikat adalah dilarang oleh undang-undang dan pelanggaran boleh dikaji semula dalam prosiding pertentangan di hadapan mahkamah awam.”
Penunjuk perasaan juga menuntut penubuhan sebuah jawatankuasa penyiasatan didakwa melaporkan tahap mengintip domestik dan menggubal pembaharuan peraturan. Penganjur juga mahu memegang bertanggungjawab mereka pegawai-pegawai awam yang didapati bertanggungjawab bagi “pengawasan perlembagaan.”
'Time to reform surveillance state': Stop Watching Us
rally challenges NSA spying . . .
Twelve years after Americans were stripped of their rights in the name of fighting terrorism, thousands have gathered in Washington DC to protest unconstitutional NSA spying programs revealed by Edward Snowden, and call for repeal of the Patriot Act.
Stop Watching Us campaign demands reform of “Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the US is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court.”
hit (here): RT's TIMELINE of the 'Stop Watching Us' event
Protesters also demand the creation of an investigative committee charged with reporting the extent of domestic spying and enact regulatory reform. Organizers also want to hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for “unconstitutional surveillance.”
Bersatu di bawah panji-panji yang berbunyi “Terima kasih Snowden” beribu-ribu berbaris di Capitol mendengar kenyataan oleh bekas kontraktor NSA yang dibacakan.
“Hari ini, tidak ada telefon di Amerika membuat panggilan tanpa meninggalkan rekod dengan NSA. Hari ini, tiada urus niaga Internet memasuki atau meninggalkan Amerika tanpa melalui tangan NSA itu. Wakil kami di Kongres memberitahu kita ini tidak pengawasan. Mereka salah, “kata Snowden dalam satu kenyataan dibacakan oleh Bekas US Department of Justice etika penasihat, Jesselyn Radack.
“Ini adalah mengenai tindakan tidak berperlembagaan, tidak beretika, dan tidak bermoral negeri pengawasan moden dan bagaimana kita semua perlu bekerjasama untuk mengingatkan kerajaan untuk menghalang mereka. Ia mengenai hak kami untuk tahu, untuk berpersatuan secara bebas, dan hidup dalam masyarakat yang terbuka, “kata Snowden.
Twelve kotak besar 575,000 tandatangan petisyen telah ditunjukkan kepada orang ramai di kaki Capitol Amerika Syarikat.
United under a banner reading “Thank You Snowden” thousands lined the Capitol to hear a statement by former NSA contractor read out.
“Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong,” Snowden said in a statement read out by Former US Department of Justice ethics adviser, Jesselyn Radack.
“This is about the unconstitutional, unethical, and immoral actions of the modern-day surveillance state and how we all must work together to remind government to stop them. It’s about our right to know, to associate freely, and to live in an open society,” Snowden said.
Twelve large boxes of 575,000 petition signatures were shown to the crowd at the foot of the US Capitol.
Glenn Greenwald, wartawan yang bekerja dengan Edward Snowden untuk mendedahkan banyak prosedur pengawasan NSA telah menghadiri perhimpunan tersebut.
“Ia adalah sangat penting bahawa orang-orang bersuara, mengambil tindakan, perarakan, perhimpunan menunjukkan terhadap amalan-amalan kerajaan,” kata aktivis anti-perang Richard Becker memberitahu RT. “Apa yang benar-benar boleh membawa perubahan adalah tindakan rakyat,” katanya, sambil menekankan bahawa “tiada perubahan progresif” dalam sejarah Amerika Syarikat yang pernah “berasal di dalam Kongres atau di White House”.
Kongres wakil Justin Amash memberitahu orang ramai bahawa membawa rang undang-undang anti-NSA pada bulan Julai kepada Kongres adalah detik paling membanggakan beliau sebagai pegawai yang dipilih.
“Kami akan terus berjuang dan kita akan meluluskan sesuatu untuk mengekang NSA,” katanya, sambil menambah bahawa “NSA sedang berjuang kembali, pertubuhan ini berjuang kembali.”
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose many of the NSA’s surveillance procedures attended the rally.
“It is very important that people speak out, take action, march, rally demonstrate against these practices of the government,” anti-war activist Richard Becker told RT. “What can really bring a change is the actions of the people,” he said, stressing that “none of the progressive changes” in the history of the US have ever been “originated inside the Congress or in the White House”.
Congressional representative Justin Amash told the crowd that bringing his anti-NSA bill in July to Congress was his proudest moment as an elected official.
“We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to pass something to rein in the NSA,” he said, adding that the “NSA is fighting back, the establishment is fighting back.”
Demonstarators membawa tanda-tanda di “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Bekas Wakil Politik Dennis Kucinich Ohio dan bekas Gabenor New Mexico Gary Johnson juga menghadiri protes anti-NSA.
“Kerajaan telah diberikan sendiri kuasa yang ia tidak perlu,” kata Johnson. “Kita perlu berdiri menentang ini.”
“Kerajaan kita sendiri telah menjadi satu ancaman kepada kebebasan, di rumah dan di luar negara,” kata bekas ahli Kongres, Dennis Kucinich.
Pemberi Thomas Drake dalam menangani orang ramai berkata bahawa dia bernasib baik tidak berakhir di dalam penjara. “Perkara terakhir masyarakat yang bebas dan terbuka memerlukan adalah pagar digital di sekeliling kita,” kata Drake. Beliau dipanggil untuk pemulihan Pindaan Keempat dan berkata bahawa pengawasan NSA “Engenders takut dan menghakis kebebasan kita.”
2 hari sebelum perarakan Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat telah menerbitkan satu wawancara YouTube dengan Pengarah NSA dan CYCOM Komander Umum Keith Alexander cuba untuk menjustifikasikan program agensi. Setakat ini kurang daripada 2% peratus daripada penonton bersetuju dengan hujah Alexander kerana keperluan untuk jumlah pengawasan dan mengintip rakyat sendiri untuk melindungi keselamatan negara.
Sehari selepas pengumuman itu, laman web untuk US National Security Agency tiba-tiba pergi luar talian dalam apa yang sesetengah mendakwa adalah serangan DDoS Anonymous. 12 jam kemudian NSA bagaimanapun berkata, ia adalah disebabkan oleh masalah teknikal semasa kemas kini perisian rutin, menafikan ia adalah di bawah serangan.
Kebocoran Edward Snowden telah mendedahkan bahawa NSA bukan sahaja intipan rekod awam tetapi juga kepada lombong data daripada komunikasi peribadi pemimpin-pemimpin DUNIA, termasuk Amerika Latin presiden dan pemimpin-pemimpin Eropah - walaupun orang-orang yang dianggap sebagai sekutu Amerika Syarikat, seperti Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel yang berada di dalam senarai perisik NSA sejak tahun 2002, menurut ayat-ayat terkini.
Perhimpunan Stop Watching Us datang sebagai 21 negara, termasuk Amerika Syarikat sekutu Perancis dan Mexico, telah menyertai rundingan untuk memuktamadkan satu resolusi PBB yang mengutuk “sembarangan” dan pengawasan “tambahan - wilayah”, dan pastikan “pengawasan bebas” elektronik pemantauan.
Negara-negara lain yang terlibat dalam rundingan dilaporkan termasuk Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, Afrika Selatan, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay dan Venezuela.
Former politicians Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson also attended the anti-NSA protest.
"The government has granted itself power that it does not have," said Johnson. "We have to stand against this."
“Our own government has become a threat to freedom, at home and abroad,” said former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich.
Whistleblower Thomas Drake in addressing the crowd said that he was fortunate not end up in prison. “The last thing a free and open society needs is a digital fence around us,” Drake said. He called for the restoration of the Fourth Amendment and said that NSA surveillance "engenders fear and erodes our freedom."
Two days before the march the US Department of Defense published a YouTube interview with NSA Director and CYCOM Commander General Keith Alexander trying to justify the agency's programs. So far less than 2 percent of viewers agree with Alexander’s reasoning for the need for total surveillance and spying on own citizens to protect national security.
A day after the release, the website for the US National Security Agency suddenly went offline in what some claimed was an Anonymous DDoS attack. Twelve hours later the NSA however said it was due to a technical problem during a routine software update, denying it was under attack.
The Edward Snowden leaks have exposed that NSA not only spied on public records but also on data mined from personal communications of world leaders, including Latin American presidents and European leaders - even those who are considered to be US allies, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was on NSA spy list since 2002, according to latest revelations.
The Stop Watching Us rally comes as twenty-one countries, including US allies France and Mexico, have joined talks to hammer out a UN resolution that would condemn “indiscriminate” and “extra-territorial” surveillance, and ensure “independent oversight” of electronic monitoring.
Other countries involved in the talks reportedly include Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Demonstarators membawa payung terjun semasa “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
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