Demonstarator memegang sehingga tanda “Hentikan
Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass
Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26
Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst - think IN pictures
@1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - 12 tahun selepas Amerika telah dilucutkan hak-hak
mereka atas nama memerangi keganasan, beribu-ribu berkumpul di Washington DC
untuk membantah perlembagaan NSA mengintip program didedahkan oleh Edward
Snowden, dan panggilan untuk memansuhkan Akta Patriot.
Hentikan Memerhati Kami kempen menuntut reformasi “Seksyen
215 Amerika Syarikat Akta Patriot, rahsia keistimewaan negeri, dan Pindaan Akta
FISA untuk membuat jelas bahawa pengawasan selimut aktiviti internet dan rekod
telefon daripada mana-mana orang yang tinggal di Amerika Syarikat adalah
dilarang oleh undang-undang dan pelanggaran boleh dikaji semula dalam prosiding
pertentangan di hadapan mahkamah awam.”
Penunjuk perasaan juga menuntut penubuhan sebuah
jawatankuasa penyiasatan didakwa melaporkan tahap mengintip domestik dan
menggubal pembaharuan peraturan. Penganjur juga mahu memegang bertanggungjawab
mereka pegawai-pegawai awam yang didapati bertanggungjawab bagi “pengawasan
perlembagaan.”
'Time
to reform surveillance state': Stop Watching Us
rally challenges NSA spying . . .
Twelve years after Americans were stripped of their
rights in the name of fighting terrorism, thousands have gathered in Washington
DC to protest unconstitutional NSA spying programs revealed by Edward Snowden,
and call for repeal of the Patriot Act.
Stop Watching Us campaign demands reform of “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 US is prohibited by law and
that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public
court.”
Protesters also demand the creation of an
investigative committee charged with reporting the extent of domestic spying
and enact regulatory reform. Organizers also want to hold accountable those
public officials who are found to be responsible for “unconstitutional
surveillance.”
Bersatu di bawah panji-panji yang berbunyi “Terima
kasih Snowden” beribu-ribu berbaris di Capitol mendengar kenyataan oleh bekas
kontraktor NSA yang dibacakan.
“Hari ini, tidak ada telefon di Amerika membuat
panggilan tanpa meninggalkan rekod dengan NSA. Hari ini, tiada urus niaga
Internet memasuki atau meninggalkan Amerika tanpa melalui tangan NSA itu. Wakil
kami di Kongres memberitahu kita ini tidak pengawasan. Mereka salah, “kata
Snowden dalam satu kenyataan dibacakan oleh Bekas US Department of Justice
etika penasihat, Jesselyn Radack.
“Ini adalah mengenai tindakan tidak berperlembagaan,
tidak beretika, dan tidak bermoral negeri pengawasan moden dan bagaimana kita
semua perlu bekerjasama untuk mengingatkan kerajaan untuk menghalang mereka. Ia
mengenai hak kami untuk tahu, untuk berpersatuan secara bebas, dan hidup dalam masyarakat
yang terbuka, “kata Snowden.
Twelve kotak besar 575,000 tandatangan petisyen
telah ditunjukkan kepada orang ramai di kaki Capitol Amerika Syarikat.
United under a banner reading “Thank You Snowden”
thousands lined the Capitol to hear a statement by former NSA contractor read
out.
“Today, no telephone in America makes a call without
leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves
America without passing through the NSA’s hands. Our representatives in
Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong,” Snowden said in a
statement read out by Former US Department of Justice ethics adviser, Jesselyn
Radack.
“This is about the unconstitutional, unethical, and
immoral actions of the modern-day surveillance state and how we all must work
together to remind government to stop them. It’s about our right to know, to
associate freely, and to live in an open society,” Snowden said.
Twelve large boxes of 575,000 petition signatures
were shown to the crowd at the foot of the US Capitol.
Glenn Greenwald, wartawan yang bekerja dengan Edward
Snowden untuk mendedahkan banyak prosedur pengawasan NSA telah menghadiri
perhimpunan tersebut.
“Ia adalah sangat penting bahawa orang-orang
bersuara, mengambil tindakan, perarakan, perhimpunan menunjukkan terhadap
amalan-amalan kerajaan,” kata aktivis anti-perang Richard Becker memberitahu
RT. “Apa yang benar-benar boleh membawa perubahan adalah tindakan rakyat,”
katanya, sambil menekankan bahawa “tiada perubahan progresif” dalam sejarah
Amerika Syarikat yang pernah “berasal di dalam Kongres atau di White House”.
Kongres wakil Justin Amash memberitahu orang ramai
bahawa membawa rang undang-undang anti-NSA pada bulan Julai kepada Kongres
adalah detik paling membanggakan beliau sebagai pegawai yang dipilih.
“Kami akan terus berjuang dan kita akan meluluskan
sesuatu untuk mengekang NSA,” katanya, sambil menambah bahawa “NSA sedang
berjuang kembali, pertubuhan ini berjuang kembali.”
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with
Edward Snowden to expose many of the NSA’s surveillance procedures attended the
rally.
“It is very important that people speak out, take
action, march, rally demonstrate against these practices of the government,”
anti-war activist Richard Becker told RT. “What can really bring a change is
the actions of the people,” he said, stressing that “none of the progressive
changes” in the history of the US have ever been “originated inside the
Congress or in the White House”.
Congressional representative Justin Amash told the
crowd that bringing his anti-NSA bill in July to Congress was his proudest
moment as an elected official.
“We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to
pass something to rein in the NSA,” he said, adding that the “NSA is fighting
back, the establishment is fighting back.”
Demonstarators membawa tanda-tanda di “Hentikan
Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran
Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan
Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Bekas Wakil Politik Dennis Kucinich Ohio dan bekas
Gabenor New Mexico Gary Johnson juga menghadiri protes anti-NSA.
“Kerajaan telah diberikan sendiri kuasa yang ia
tidak perlu,” kata Johnson. “Kita perlu berdiri menentang ini.”
“Kerajaan kita sendiri telah menjadi satu ancaman
kepada kebebasan, di rumah dan di luar negara,” kata bekas ahli Kongres, Dennis
Kucinich.
Pemberi Thomas Drake dalam menangani orang ramai
berkata bahawa dia bernasib baik tidak berakhir di dalam penjara. “Perkara
terakhir masyarakat yang bebas dan terbuka memerlukan adalah pagar digital di
sekeliling kita,” kata Drake. Beliau dipanggil untuk pemulihan Pindaan Keempat
dan berkata bahawa pengawasan NSA “Engenders takut dan menghakis kebebasan kita.”
2 hari sebelum perarakan Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat
telah menerbitkan satu wawancara YouTube dengan Pengarah NSA dan CYCOM Komander
Umum Keith Alexander cuba untuk menjustifikasikan program agensi. Setakat ini
kurang daripada 2% peratus daripada penonton bersetuju dengan hujah Alexander
kerana keperluan untuk jumlah pengawasan dan mengintip rakyat sendiri untuk
melindungi keselamatan negara.
Sehari selepas pengumuman itu, laman web untuk US
National Security Agency tiba-tiba pergi luar talian dalam apa yang sesetengah
mendakwa adalah serangan DDoS Anonymous. 12 jam kemudian NSA bagaimanapun
berkata, ia adalah disebabkan oleh masalah teknikal semasa kemas kini perisian
rutin, menafikan ia adalah di bawah serangan.
Kebocoran Edward Snowden telah mendedahkan bahawa
NSA bukan sahaja intipan rekod awam tetapi juga kepada lombong data daripada
komunikasi peribadi pemimpin-pemimpin DUNIA, termasuk Amerika Latin presiden
dan pemimpin-pemimpin Eropah - walaupun orang-orang yang dianggap sebagai
sekutu Amerika Syarikat, seperti Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel yang berada di
dalam senarai perisik NSA sejak tahun 2002, menurut ayat-ayat terkini.
Perhimpunan Stop Watching Us datang sebagai 21
negara, termasuk Amerika Syarikat sekutu Perancis dan Mexico, telah menyertai
rundingan untuk memuktamadkan satu resolusi PBB yang mengutuk “sembarangan” dan
pengawasan “tambahan - wilayah”, dan pastikan “pengawasan bebas” elektronik
pemantauan.
Negara-negara lain yang terlibat dalam rundingan
dilaporkan termasuk Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana,
Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, Afrika Selatan,
Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay dan Venezuela.
Former politicians Representative Dennis Kucinich of
Ohio and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson also attended the anti-NSA
protest.
"The government has granted itself power that
it does not have," said Johnson. "We have to stand against
this."
“Our own government has become a threat to freedom,
at home and abroad,” said former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich.
Whistleblower Thomas Drake in addressing the crowd
said that he was fortunate not end up in prison. “The last thing a free and
open society needs is a digital fence around us,” Drake said. He called for the
restoration of the Fourth Amendment and said that NSA surveillance
"engenders fear and erodes our freedom."
Two days before the march the US Department of
Defense published a YouTube interview with NSA Director and CYCOM Commander
General Keith Alexander trying to justify the agency's programs. So far less
than 2 percent of viewers agree with Alexander’s reasoning for the need for
total surveillance and spying on own citizens to protect national security.
A day after the release, the website for the US
National Security Agency suddenly went offline in what some claimed was an
Anonymous DDoS attack. Twelve hours later the NSA however said it was due to a
technical problem during a routine software update, denying it was under
attack.
The Edward Snowden leaks have exposed that NSA not
only spied on public records but also on data mined from personal
communications of world leaders, including Latin American presidents and
European leaders - even those who are considered to be US allies, like German
Chancellor Angela Merkel who was on NSA spy list since 2002, according to
latest revelations.
The Stop Watching Us rally comes as twenty-one
countries, including US allies France and Mexico, have joined talks to hammer
out a UN resolution that would condemn “indiscriminate” and “extra-territorial”
surveillance, and ensure “independent oversight” of electronic monitoring.
Other countries involved in the talks reportedly
include Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Hungary, India,
Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland,
Uruguay and Venezuela.
Demonstarators membawa payung terjun semasa “Hentikan
Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran
Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
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