Dear Patriot,
There’s no security like prison walls.
That’s exactly what the Deep State is building all around you, me, and every other American today.
We see it everywhere, every day: the weaponization of the justice system, against any American who opposes the Washington establishment.
Of course, one major Deep State priority is destroying Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. But as Trump likes to say, the real target is the American people: he was just in their way.
Some of the most egregious abuses come from Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which the Deep State used to sabotage the Trump Administration. Relying on a false document created by a foreign agent acting on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign, the FISA court issued a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and then his own administration.
But again, it wasn’t just Trump they spied (and continue to spy) on.
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI used Section 702 to gather information on American citizens more than 3 million times in 2021 alone.
That year – the first of Joe Biden’s administration – saw a more than 250% increase over previous years.
Not only is the FISA Court typically a rubber stamp for requests to spy on American citizens, but the court once announced that government reported numerous incidents in which the FBI gathered surveillance without even obtaining a warrant from the court!
In fact, the U.S. “intelligence” community, and especially the FBI, illegally rummaged through millions upon millions of phone call and message records on innocent Americans without a warrant.
We’ve known about the government’s mass spying program for years, now. But until recently, there was at least the comfort that the government wouldn’t know what to do with all of that mass surveillance.
Now, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, it’s clear the government is capable of building detailed “profiles” of every American, including you and me.
The good news is, many Americans have started to wise up to this nonsense – especially after watching the Deep State go on the warpath against the Trump administration.
But soon, Section 702’s authorization will expire – and we must demand Congress not reauthorize this abused power.
That’s why I’m counting on you to please sign your directive to Congress to sunset FISA Section 702 immediately!
This may be our best chance ever to strike a deathblow to Big Brother. It could also be our last.
The fact is, the Deep State is hell-bent on collecting every American’s emails, phone records, text messages, Internet searches, instant messages, online purchases, and Facebook posts.
And they’re not letting anything get in their way.
Wasn’t all of this supposed to have ended when they passed the falsely-named “USA Freedom Act” in 2015, which we were all told would “reform” domestic spying procedures?
As I warned you at the time, the “USA Freedom Act” did nothing but put a fig leaf on the situation.
Instead of the NSA collecting the private communications of every American, Congress simply instructed communications companies to act as the NSA’s filing cabinet – and insisted these companies jump whenever the NSA told them to.
Now, it appears the NSA, Homeland Security, and the FBI can’t even abide by these laughably minimal restrictions.
As one Bloomberg News report stated, the NSA “deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade.”
The truth is, I believe this is a fight for the very future of our Republic.
No government in the history of mankind – not even the Communist East German Stasi of yesteryear – has ever held the massive spying power our federal government holds over law-abiding U.S. citizens today. . .
And no government in world history that’s ever sought this power has even been able to avoid the temptation for abuse.
Once the “experts” in Washington, D.C. know how we live, it’s only a matter of time until they start trying to “fix” us by telling us what we can and can’t own, read, watch, think, listen to, and teach our kids and grandkids. . .
We’ve already had a taste of their authoritarianism with their Covid restrictions and mandates.
Of course, I know the Deep State apologists say they’re different. They just say,
“trust us and everything will be OK.”
But how can we, knowing our government has targeted political opponents like Martin Luther King, Jr., Donald Trump, and even sitting congressmen routinely in the past?
How can we trust them after the IRS – under the Obama administration – was caught red-handed targeting limited government organizations and even came after Campaign for Liberty several times looking for donor names? (We declined!)
How can we after the Obama administration illegally wiretapped reporters who dared criticize them and wiretapped a Trump campaign aide?
How can we after watching our national media elites cheerlead for the “Russian collusion” fraud and watching the Deep State target a politician they HATE – just for the “crime” of winning?
How can we trust our “intelligence experts” who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian propaganda?
I know the statists’ excuse is “security.”
But regardless of what buzzword they use to defend their assaults on our freedoms, their enemy is ALWAYS the same.
It’s our privacy. Our liberty. Our “greed” in wanting to keep some of the money we’ve rightfully earned.
Just since the lid was blown off our federal government’s domestic surveillance programs in the summer of 2013, we’ve seen story after story hit the press regarding NSA abuses, including:
*** NSA employees spying on ex-lovers and
spouses – a practice so common, the intelligence community has come up with their own jargon, i.e. “LOVEINT”, to describe it;
*** REFUSING to say whether or not it has spied on Members of Congress, which would effectively destroy any ability of our Legislative Branch to police this rogue agency;
*** Effectively GUTTING attorney-client privilege by holding confidential records.
*** REFUSING to say whether or not it has spied on Members of Congress, which would effectively destroy any ability of our Legislative Branch to police this rogue agency;
*** Effectively GUTTING attorney-client privilege by holding confidential records.
There are literally thousands of examples of abuse. The FBI has become so emboldened, they’re using DMV photos to launch a massive facial recognition database! They are skirting the law by buying your internet history from the Big Tech companies.
This should be no surprise. Men aren’t angels. Neither are politicians, government bureaucrats, or AI algorithms.
What’s made our country the greatest and freest nation in human history is that our Founders created a constitution that’s limited the power and therefore the damage evil men can inflict.
Our Founders understood that liberty cannot exist without privacy. As Benjamin Franklin stated, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
But today, our Constitution’s Fourth Amendment – which protects American citizens’ right to privacy from government – is hanging by nothing but a thread.
The protections you and I have against the actions of evil men holding the reins of our own government are dropping like flies.
You and I must take a stand.
The good news is, opposition to Deep State government spying is growing.
There appears to be a growing internal fight in Congress as well. One congressman said straight reauthorization of Section 702 will be “dead on arrival.”
Well, politicians don’t always follow through -- which is why you and I need to turn up the pressure.
I believe you and I can STOP the reauthorization of Section 702 and stop the statists’ all-out war on the Fourth Amendment.
But it’s vital you sign your STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE petition right away.
The surveillance state apologists are going to do whatever they can to reauthorize their spying program quickly and likely quietly.
That’s why I’ve instructed Campaign for Liberty staff to pull out all the stops using mail, email, Internet ads, and even targeted radio and TV ads if I can raise the resources.
But I can’t do any of this without you.
So won’t you please agree to your most generous gift of $200 right away?
Patriot, I know that’s a lot. If it’s too much, please give $100 or at least $50.
Like you, sometimes I feel like we’re watching the police state nightmare from George Orwell’s 1984 being built around us.
So won’t you please join me in shouting DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER before it’s too late – before the idea of American liberty is nothing more than a distant memory?
Please sign your STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE petition and agree to your most generous gift of $200, $100, or at least $50 TODAY!
For Liberty,
Ron Paul
Chairman
P.S. Section 702 of FISA – which allowed the massive collection of innocent Americans’ emails, texts, phone calls, and online chats to continue – is set to expire next year.
If you and I turn up enough heat on Congress to stop reauthorization, I’m convinced we can bring the statists’ domestic spying programs to a crashing halt.
That’s why I’m counting on you to please sign STOP THE SURVEILLANCE STATE petition and make your most generous contribution of $200, $100, or at least $50 TODAY!
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