![]() Dear Patriot, It’s a serious question, and one which must be answered. You see, it’s that time again when FISA Section 702 is up for renewal in just a few short months. Section 702 is supposed to only apply to warrantless wiretapping of foreigners, but snoop state agents have used it to gather information on American citizens who have contact — or may have had contact — with foreign citizens. Section 702 was used to justify the mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden. Section 702 was used to spy on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Section 702 was used to oust former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. And Section 702 was used to spy on U.S. Senators and Representatives just last year. Well almost every American. . . You see, if the statists in Congress get their way, there will be a special carveout for Members of Congress. More on that in a moment. Prominent politicians and mainstream media figures celebrated the use of unconstitutional surveillance which infiltrated the Trump campaign and later forced a member of the President’s cabinet to resign. And called for the “Deep State” — the network of “intelligence” agencies, their defenders and allies on Capitol Hill, and the “mainstream” media — to step up their efforts to undermine the Trump administration. . . Americans working to restore the government to its constitutional limits, end our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, and strike directly at the heart of the welfare-warfare state and crony capitalism by auditing — then ending — the Federal Reserve? For years, critics of warrantless wiretapping and mass surveillance warned that these powers could — and would — be used to harass and silence critics of the government. . . We’ve already seen attempts at the state level to silence pro-liberty activists by imposing burdensome regulations on them. And you and I must also fight the attempts by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his ilk to focus only on themselves! Johnson merely wants to require the 3-letter agencies to notify members of Congress if they are being watched and listened to. They don’t care about you and me. They care about covering for themselves! Make no mistake: this will be a difficult battle. With the cases I mentioned above demonstrating the real threat that warrantless wiretapping and mass surveillance poses to the liberty movement and America, we must not let the opportunity to kill laws like Section 702 slip through our hands. The fallout from the use of information obtained via illegal warrantless wiretapping may have gained us new allies in our fight to end unconstitutional surveillance, both in Congress and in the administration. I know I have asked a lot of you lately. But time is running out. Unless we take away the Deep State's power to target Americans with warrantless wiretapping and surveillance, we may soon live in a country where people are afraid to challenge government assaults on our liberties. This would cripple our effectiveness! Dr. Ron Paul P.S. Campaign for Liberty is launching a major effort to end warrantless surveillance of Americans under Section 702 of the FISA act. If you would like to make a donation by mail, please send your check to Campaign for Liberty, PO Box 104, Lake Jackson TX 77566 or you can call 703-865-7162. The mission of Campaign for Liberty is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a constitutional foreign policy, by means of education, issue advocacy, and grassroots mobilization.
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