More than 4,000 groups sign up to protest NSA

[Jesus Malverde]

More than 4,000 groups and websites have signed on to support a day of protest against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, scheduled for Tuesday.

In addition, tens of thousands of people have pledged to make calls and post messages on the Web in support of surveillance reform, said organizers of The Day We Fight Back.

Among the groups supporting the day of Web protest are the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, BoingBoing, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Mozilla, Reddit and Tumblr.

“Together we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action,” organizers wrote on TheDayWeFightBack.org. “Together, we will make it clear that such behavior is not compatible with democratic governance. Together, if we persist, we will win this fight.”

Supporters of the NSA surveillance program say they help keep the U.S. safe from terrorist attacks.

Organizers of the protest are encouraging websites to display banners calling for a scaling back of NSA surveillance program. The groups will encourage people to call or email members of the U.S. Congress and to post Twitter messages, write Facebook posts and engage in other online activity.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2095300/more-than-4000-groups-sign-up-to-protest-nsa.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. And a couple of thousand folks signed up to protest the military dropping fake snow in the South.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024452782

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Your semblance of reality and equivalence is lacking

Among the groups supporting the day of Web protest are the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, BoingBoing, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Mozilla, Reddit and Tumblr.

[Titonwan]

16. I am beginning to wonder about that one.

And what he supports. I suppose you have to listen twice as much as you speak, thus my lack of comment count- considering my membership date.
Or as my Indian brother told me, simply- "two ears, one mouth".
I do enjoy the banter, though! Kee!

[cui bono]

15. Not quite sure what the connection is there...

What are you saying?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. But..but..the NSA and those that support them say the spying will keep us safe.

Just ignore the fact that it isn't.

[TheMathieu]

4. I wish we could get that many to march against failure to renew UI and the slashing of SNAP.

They can't muster up enough fucks for the poor, but when the details of their porn habits are threatened... boy will they come out in droves.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. POST! OF! THE! DAY!

This is exactly why DU is just DUmping ground for malcontents these days. Back in the day, the issues you outlined would've brought the "activists" out of hibernation. These days, they're pretty much impotent.

[rhett o rick]

8. If your definition of a malcontent is someone that doesnt march in lock-step with you and the

other loyalists, then count me in. Remember our founders were considered malcontents.

[Titonwan]

19. Spoken like a warrior- for peace.

And you, fine sir are in good company- MLK, RFK, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, George Carlin, Saul David Alinsky and other great humanists that refused the state of present being. Or more commonly known as the 'status quo'.
In other words- 'get used to it kid, we're in control, now lay down and take it- see, nyeah, nyeah, see! (*smokes cigar*).

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. !!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. !!!

[NuclearDem]

9. And borderline xenophobes too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3173564

And while were on the topic, a lot of activists do come out to protest SNAP cuts and income inequality issues--socialists, anarchists, and Occupy. It's blatant loyalists that then shit on them for not being official arms of the Party.

[Scootaloo]

10. "Latin America is but a cyst on the anus of the world"?

I think that's well over the border of xenophobia, past the fence of isolationism, and straight into the neighborhood of racism.

[NuclearDem]

11. Frankly should have been a ban worthy offense.

But hey, not my site.

[Titonwan]

22. I'm in full agreement.

I don't flag people but this asshole is over the top. Don't worry- one day it's gonna get others wonderin' what's up. It happens.

[Rex]

40. Some people like skating on thin ice.

Never say never.

[QC]

39. According to a jury, there is nothing wrong with that post.

Unbelievable, isn't it?

[neverforget]

31. Wow! The link to that post is

disgusting. I can't believe that wasn't hidden or that poster is still here for such xenophobia.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. I don't like people who are complicit in desecrating the Constitution

Back in the day, we would've done something about those people at this site.

[cui bono]

14. Now we give them smilies to play with.

[rhett o rick]

25. They hide behind their loyalty. nm

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. You mean these folks?

Take a look on Democratic Underground

They have the gov't paid trolls out, trying to limit the outrage & rebellion on there.

If that is the reaction of hard core Dems to the news stories on the NSA, I want to stoke up some more of it.

Lots of traffic on DU.

It's the most popular Dem internet site, except for Huffy Po - where everything meaningful gets censored.

http://www.dailypaul.com/288556/clapper-and-feinstein-get-caught-lying-big-time#comment-3103138

Fuck Libertarians!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

36. If they're complicit in desecrating the Constitution, sure. But I was referring to you, of course.

[niyad]

18. as such a long-time member and poster, how do you see yourself, then, in this DUmping ground?

[rhett o rick]

26. Self-righteous defender of the status quo. nm

[marmar]

41. Nah, it's become more of a dumping ground for thin-skinned "Party over Principle" types .....

..... who can't handle dissent, criticism or reality.

[Tarheel_Dem]

42. !!!

[hootinholler]

6. Except this is not a march

It's a web blackout and day of calling congress.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Wouldst thine young ruffiynes remove themselves forthwythe from mine lawne

posthaste!

[sagat]

21. +1

[Titonwan]

23. What a masterful stroke at attempted propaganda!

Please, come back and come back often- telling strange tales of the land beyond the horizons, young sir! Surely the benevolent king only has our best interests in hand! And please, by your leave- let the kind and just Lord Clapper and Lady Alexander know we're in their kindest regard! Enjoy the party!
Bring in the food tasters! (not like I don't trust you or nothin', jus sayin')
Yes, civil rights gets in front of our gut. No, it doesn't.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. **NC NAACP "Moral March" in Raleigh on Saturday, February 8th @ 9:00AM**

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10694381

https://www.facebook.com/events/577895312291914/

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/06/3597437/naacp-and-other-protesters-against.html

See you there!

[sabrina 1]

28. You missed the hundreds of thousands who DID come out for the poor and were brutally

beaten and attacked and jailed for their trouble?? Wow, where have you been. But they are still out there volunteering their time, their energy, their money to help save their homes from foreclosure, to build homes for the homeless, to keep on protesting and agitating.

And YOU missed it all? Too bad, you might have been able to help.

Oh yes, and the NSA and the FBI spied on them for doing so. How crazy is that?

[reusrename]

7. I don't think it's possible to stop them.

We should make what they do more public. It's the only real solution.

[Titonwan]

13. Right on!

I don't think people fully realize how insidious this really is. Fuck Smaug, this is the real dragon flying among us. Now's the time to get scared for the right reasons. Fight back, human beings.

[riderinthestorm]

17. Don't they know that opposing the NSA means they are Rand Paul racists and narcissists

who have messy garages and pole dancing girlfriends??

This won't end well for them. They may get their passports revoked in transit and end up stranded in Russia accused of espionage and treason...

[Titonwan]

24. I see a movie in there. "We all go to Russia, oh wait!"

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. You guys keep bringing up the "racist" thing. Hit a nerve, did we?

[Coyotl]

29. K&R

[WillyT]

30. K & R !!!

[sabrina 1]

32. Excellent. Around the world in addition to this, over 60 countries and counting are

demanding laws to stop this reprehensible and illegal behavior. This movement is going to be world wide and massive. They just don't get it, they don't understand what they have done and how angry people all over the world are about this criminal behavior.

[bvar22]

38. DURec!

*Rampant Government Secrecy and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Persecution of Whistle Blowers and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Government surveillance of the citizenry and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Secret Laws and Democracy can not co-exist.

*Secret Courts and Democracy can not-co-exist.

*Our Democracy depends on an informed electorate.

You either believe in Democracy,
or you don't.
It IS that simple.