I Hereby Resign in Protest Effective Immediately

[matthews]

72. Stop watching us...

We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's and the FBI's data collection programs. We call on Congress to immediately and publicly:

1.Enact reform this Congress to 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 U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court;

2.Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance;

3.Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance.

https://optin.stopwatching.us/


Selected Signatories:

18MillionRising - 350.org - Access - American Civil Liberties Union - American Library Association - Americans for Job Security - Applied Research Center - Association for Progressive Communications - Association of Alternative Newsmedia - Association of Research Libraries - Big Bad Lab - Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Bitcoin Foundation - Blog Action Day - Bradley Manning Support Network - Calyx Institute - Campaign for Liberty - Center for Democracy and Technology - Center for Media Justice - Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire - ColorOfChange.org - Competitive Enterprise Institute - Consumer Watchdog - Courage to Resist - CREDO Action - Daily Kos - Defending Dissent - Demand Progress - Detroit Digital Justice Coalition - Digital Fourth - Electronic Frontier Foundation - Electronic Frontiers Australia - EngageMedia - Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) - FIDH - Worldwide Movement for Human Rights - Fight for the Future - Firedoglake - Foundation for Innovation and Internet Freedom - Free Press - Free Software Foundation - Freedom of the Press Foundation - Freedom Works - Gandi.net - Generation Justice - Generation Opportunity - GNOME - Green Party of Rhode Island - Green Party of the United States - Greenpeace USA - Guardian Project - HackThisSite.org - Icelandic Modern Media Initiative - Internet ArchiveLeague of Technical Voters - Learning About Multimedia Project - Libertarian Party - Liberty Coalition - LibrarianShipwreck - Main Street Project - Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association - Media Alliance - Media Literacy Project - Media Mobilizing Project - MoveOn.org - Mozilla - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - National Coalition Against Censorship - National Security Counselors - Occupy Wall Street NYC - OccupyWallSt.org - Open Internet Tools Project - Open Technology Institute at New America Foundation - OpenMedia.org - Participatory Politics Foundation - Partido PIRATA - PEN American Center - Pirate Party of Austria - PolitiHacks - Praxis Project - Privacy and Access Council of Canada - Privacy Camp - Progressive Change Campaign Committee - Progressive Librarians Guild - Public Knowledge - R Street Institute - Reel Grrls - Restore America's Voice - RestoreTheFourth - Revolution Truth - Rights Working Group - Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association - RootsAction.org - Tactical Tech - TechFreedom - Telecomix - Tenth Amendment Center - The Other 98% - Tor - Upwell - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center - WBAI Radio - Whistleblower Defense League - WITNESS - Women in Media & News - World Wide Web Foundation - YourAnonNews