Opposing the NSA
If you approve of the two senators proposed legislation that would shutdown the Federal Government unconstitutional NSA program and prevent the spying on Californians, please contact them and let them know that you support their efforts.
Senator Joel Anderson - phone 619-596-3136
http://district36.cssrc.us/content/my-offices
Senator Ted Leiu - phone 310-318-6894
http://sd28.senate.ca.gov/contact
Disgruntled with NSA spying on US citizens, two senators from opposing parties have introduced a bill banning companies in California from providing essential utility services to the agency including cutting off its computer-cooling water supply.
The NSA is a very resource-hungry organization which could stand to lose a lot from this. The initiative by activists and other organizations, apparently seeks to incapacitate the agency in return for its rights violations.
The news comes just as elsewhere, in Maryland, the agency made a deal to pay $2 million a year for the region’s treated sewage water.
But California has not been so kind. Hitting back at the federal government after a mountain of recent allegations of outright violations of its citizens’ rights, senators Ted Lieu (D) and Joel Anderson (R) formally introduced Senate Bill 828 on Monday.
An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Reuters / NSA)
An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Reuters / NSA)
They declared in a statement that The National Security Agency's massive level of spying and indiscriminate collecting of phone and electronic data on all Americans, including more than 38 million Californians, is a direct threat to our liberty and freedom.
The bill will prohibit the state of California from Providing material support, participation or assistance in any form to a federal agency that claims the power, by virtue of any federal law, rule, regulation or order, to collect electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place and thing to be searched or seized.
In practice this means a number of things: The bill targets government-owned utilities (water and electricity); any public universities that allow their facilities to be used as NSA research facilities and their campuses as recruiting grounds; it will also impose sanctions on any corporations trying to fill the gaps left by the utility providers and other state companies; finally, the bill also seeks to ban any local or state criminal investigations from carrying out their work using data harvested by government snooping without a specific warrant. In its absence, the information will simply be inadmissible in court.
The submission followed a December campaign by activists from various organizations, including California's Tenth Amendment Center, in which they first proposed to shut off the spy agency's water, releasing this video.
The original objective was to stop water supplies to the NSA Utah Data Center the humongous complex filled to the brim with square kilometers of servers scanning and storing people's private communications.
With regard to Monday's proposal on California, Lieu believes that state-funded public resources should not be going toward aiding the NSA or any other federal agency from indiscriminate spying on its own citizens and gathering electronic or metadata that violates the Fourth Amendment.”
Lieu went on to clarify that he agrees with the NSA about the world being a dangerous place. But that is why, he says, “our founders enacted the Bill of Rights. They understood the grave dangers of an out-of-control federal government.
Based on the model legislation the Fourth Amendment Protection Act first drafted by the Tenth Amendment Center and activists at the Off now coalition, any state agencies, officials or corporations found to be supporting or assisting the federal government to spy or collect certain data on Californians fit the bill, according to the press release.
Mike Maharrey, communications director for the Tenth Amendment Center, believes at least four more states will take up the bill in early 2014. Although California does not yet have its own data center, the measure, Maharrey argues, would make it more difficult for the NSA to expand its operations.
Turn it off Now Website http://offnow.org/
California moved forward to Nullify NSA this week. Senate Bill 828 has been introduced by Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and Sen. Joel Anderson (R-San Diego). The OffNow Coalition drafted the legislation --go here: http://offnow.org/action/state/
Everything is set for we defenders of freedom to take action.
As we witnessed with the NDAA---NULLIFICATION WORKS!!! If you want to take action locally --inOrange County---together, please contact me ASAP.
HERE IS WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO DO:
· It doesn’t take much to make a call. Not an email. Not a fax
· A letter, maybe. A phone call- definitely.
· Call your California State Senator. Pronto. http://senate.ca.gov/senators
· Ask them to support SB828. Be polite, but strong.
· Get a yes or no confirmation.
· Ask them to co-sponsor.
· If they give you no answer - ask how much time they need to read the legislation. You'll call back. Then call back again. Do the same--over and over and over until they tell you YES and make that public.
· If they say YES, ask them to TWEET it, or do a press release.
· Then call your State Assembly Person and say, I like SB828, will you support a similar bill in the assembly?
Replies
Cut their power and water and they have to shut down. Great idea!!!!
Do it.
In their capacity as Sovereign Authority, The People can act directly to instruct government on what remedy it will pursue to abate any un-Lawful or un-Constitutional transgressions they've determined it's guilty of having perpetrated.
Toward that end and apropos to this particular outrage, I wrote this ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/146709421/Proclamation-and-Orders
Pat,
It's like somebody said to me one time. He said "You are entirely too well informed". I thought I was the only crazy person on the planet. You sir are entirely too well informed. You seem to know all that I know on this subject. I am currently re-writing "Subject to The Jurisdiction". The first version got erased somehow. It's going to be the bible on sovereignty. What it is, where we got it, why we need it, where it went and how to get it back. I just didn't think anyone else had put the pieces together, but sovereignty IS the issue. Citizenship IS at the core of that issue. Freedom will be the outcome. Wisdom will be the guiding light and knowledge will be the tool to bring it forth. Rock On Pat. Its nice to know that I'm not the only crazy person.