Sunday 27 October 2013

‘Masa untuk reformasi negeri pengawasan’: 'Stop Watching Us' (Hentikan Memerhati Kami) perhimpunan cabaran pengintip NSA . . .

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)


Perhimpunan 'StopWatchingUs' terhadap pengawasan massa: LIVE


Hentikan Memerhati Kami: privasi perhimpunan terbesar 
dalam sejarah Amerika Syarikat melanda DC . . .

SitiWanMahani - Ramai membanjiri Capitol Hill di Washington DC, pembolongan kema-rahan mereka terhadap amalan pengawasan menyapu NSA itu. Pihak penganjur berkata ia adalah perhimpunan pro-privasi terbesar dalam sejarah Amerika Syarikat.

Stop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US history hits DC. Crowds are flooding Capitol Hill in Washington DC, venting their fury against the NSA's sweeping surveillance practices. The organisers say it's the largest pro-privacy rally in US history.

Perhimpunan 'StopWatchingUs' terhadap pengawasan 
massa: Terkini Live . . .

Demonstarators membawa tanda-tanda di “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: A Perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013.(Reuters, Jonathan Ernst - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Beribu-ribu telah berarak di Mall Kebangsaan di Washington, DC untuk membantah rahsia operasi pengawasan NSA pada ulang tahun Akta Patriot. Pihak pen-ganjur telah dibentangkan Kongres dengan petisyen yang telah memperolehi lebih 580,000 tanda-tangan.

Hentikan Memerhati Kami sebuah kolektif 100 kumpulan advokasi awam, antaranya Kesatuan Kebebasan Sivil Amerika, Kerja Kebebasan, serta individu seperti Cina artis/aktivis Ai Weiwei dan Glenn Greenwald, wartawan yang bekerja dengan Edward Snowden untuk mendedahkan banyak prosedur pengawasan NSA itu. Perhimpunan tersebut bermula pada jam 11:30 pagi waktu tempatan pada 26 Oktober - ulang tahun ke-12 Akta Patriot Amerika Syarikat.

StopWatchingUs Rally Against Mass 
Surveillance: Live Updates . . .

Thousands have marched on the National Mall in Washington, DC to protest covert NSA surveillance operations on the anniversary of the Patriot Act. The organizers have presented Congress with a petition which has acquired over 580,000 signatures.

Stop Watching Us is a collective of 100 public advocacy groups, among them the American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom Works, as well as individuals like Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei and Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose many of the NSA’s surveillance procedures. The rally began at 11:30 am local time on October 26 – the 12th anniversary of the US Patriot Act.

Penunjuk perasaan memakai topi kadbod kamera pengawasan membawa tanda yang menggambarkan Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: Perhimpunan Terhadap Pengawasan Massa” berarak di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

"Pertama, kami meminta siasatan kongres supaya kita boleh memberi penerangan tentang apa yang Agensi Keselamatan Negara lakukan. Yang ke-2, kita meminta pembaharuan undang-undang pengawasan persekutuan, khususnya Seksyen 215 Akta Patriot, Seksyen 702 Akta Pengawasan Perisikan Asing, dan rahsia negara keistimewaan, "Rainey Reitman, pengarah aktivisme KWSP dan penganjur utama bagi perhimpunan Sabtu ini kepada berita teknologi outlet CNET pada hari Jumaat.

23:59 GMT: Pihak penganjur perhimpunan Hentikan Memerhati Kami telah mengeluarkan satu video YouTube menonjolkan peristiwa perarakan Sabtu ini.

“First, we are asking for a congressional investigation so we can shed light on exactly what the National Security Agency is doing. Secondly, we ask for reform of federal surveillance law, specifically Section 215 of the Patriot Act, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the state secrets privilege,” Rainey Reitman, EFF activism director and lead organizer for Saturday's rally told tech news outlet CNET on Friday.    

23:59 GMT: The organizers of the rally Stop Watching Us have released a YouTube video highlighting events of  Saturday’s march.


23:20 GMT: 12 tahun selepas Amerika telah dilucutkan hak-hak mereka atas nama meme-rangi keganasan, beribu-ribu berkumpul di Washington DC untuk membantah perlem-bagaan NSA mengintip program didedahkan oleh Edward Snowden, dan panggilan untuk memansuhkan Akta Patriot. (CERITA PENUH/FULL STORY)

22:51 GMT: Seperti beribu-ribu orang memukul jalan-jalan untuk mencabar pengawasan haram oleh agensi perisikan Amerika Syarikat di Washington DC, kerajaan persekutuan Amerika Syarikat buat kali pertama dalam sejarah undang-undang secara rasmi mengu-mumkan (first time in legal history officially announced) ia akan menggunakan bukti yang dikumpul tanpa waran dalam jenayah kes terhadap pengganas yang disyaki.

22:45 GMT: Video kenyataan Edward Snowden ini dibaca oleh bekas Jabatan Keadilan AS etika penasihat, Jesselyn Radack.

23:20 GMT: 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. (FULL STORY)

22:51 GMT: As thousands of people hit the streets to challenge illegal surveillance by US intelligence agencies in Washington DC, the US federal government for the first time in legal history officially announced it was going to use evidence collected without a warrant in a criminal case against a suspected terrorist.

22:45 GMT: Video of Edward Snowden's statement being read by former US Department of Justice ethics adviser, Jesselyn Radack.


22:36 GMT: Perhimpunan di Washington DC tidak mencapai matlamat muktamad, 'Wide Awake' Berita pengasas Charlie McGrath memberitahu RT. Beliau percaya untuk mem-punyai suara mereka didengar oleh kerajaan, penunjuk perasaan perlu bersatu majoriti penduduk Amerika Syarikat di bawah panji-panji mereka.

"Kita memerlukan 100 juta, 200 juta, 300 ratus juta orang untuk bangun dan sedar bahawa kita telah bertukar menjadi sebuah negara polis gaya Stasi," kata McGrath.

"Kongres seolah-olah berminat dalam apa-apa lebih daripada mengumpul pendapatan yang mereka perlukan untuk mengekalkan kedudukan mereka kuasa oleh tentera yang sama dan keselamatan industri yang kompleks yang melihat orang-orang di negara ini dan dunia secara haram."

22:36 GMT: The rally in Washington DC did not achieve its ultimate goal, Wide Awake News founder Charlie McGrath told RT. He believes in order to have their voices heard by the government, the protesters should unite the majority of the US population under their banner.

“We need a 100 million, 200 million, 300 hundred million people to wake up and realize that we have turned into a Stasi-style police state,” McGrath said.

“Congress seems to be interested in nothing more than collecting the revenue that they need in order to maintain their positions of power by the same military and security-industrial complex that is watching the people of this country and the world illegally.”

22:02 GMT:


21:37 GMT: Menjelang perhimpunan besar-besaran itu, Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat telah menerbitkan satu wawancara YouTube dengan NSA Pengarah dan CYCOM Komander Umum Keith Alexander cuba untuk menjustifikasikan program agensi. Setakat ini kurang daripada 2% peratus daripada penonton bersetuju dengan hujah Alexander.

21:37 GMT: Ahead of the mass rally, 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.

21:10 GMT: Berikut adalah kenyataan penuh Edward Snowden itu dibacakan di hadapan orang ramai di Washington DC:

Dalam tempoh 4 bulan lepas, kita telah belajar banyak perkara mengenai kerajaan kita. Kami telah belajar bahawa Komuniti Perisikan Amerika Syarikat diam-diam membina sebuah sistem pengawasan berleluasa.

Hari ini, tiada 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.

Kami juga telah belajar ini bukan mengenai garis parti merah atau biru. Tidak ia mengenai keganasan.

Ia adalah mengenai kuasa, kawalan, dan amanah dalam kerajaan, sama ada anda mem-punyai suara dalam demokrasi atau keputusan kita dibuat untuk anda berbanding dengan anda. Kami di sini untuk mengingatkan pegawai-pegawai kerajaan kita bahawa mereka adalah penjawat awam, bukan penyiasat persendirian.

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.

Kita sedang menyaksikan satu masa Amerika di mana orang biasa dari sekolah tinggi untuk jawatan tinggi berdiri untuk menentang trend berbahaya dalam kerajaan.

Kita diberitahu bahawa apa yang tidak mengikut perlembagaan tidak menyalahi undang-undang, tetapi kita tidak akan tertipu. Kita juga tidak lupa bahawa Pindaan Keempat dalam Rang Undang-undang kami Hak melarang kerajaan bukan sahaja dari mencari kesan peribadi kita tanpa waran tetapi dari merampas mereka di tempat pertama.

Memegang kepada prinsip ini, kita mengakui bahawa pengawasan massa tidak mempunyai tempat di negara ini.

Sudah tiba masanya untuk pembaharuan. Pilihan raya akan datang dan kita sedang mengawasi anda.

21:03 GMT: Sepanduk yang berbunyi "Terima kasih Snowden" bersatu beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan di Capitol di Washington DC.


21:10 GMT: Here is Edward Snowden’s full statement read out in front of the crowd at Washington DC:

In the last four months, we’ve learned a lot about our government. We’ve learned that the US Intelligence Community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance.

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.

We’ve also learned this isn’t about red or blue party lines. Neither is it about terrorism.

It is about power, control, and trust in government; about whether you have a voice in our democracy or decisions are made for you rather than with you. We’re here to remind our government officials that they are public servants, not private investigators.

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.

We are witnessing an American moment in which ordinary people from high schools to high office stand up to oppose a dangerous trend in government.

We are told that what is unconstitutional is not illegal, but we will not be fooled. We have not forgotten that the Fourth Amendment in our Bill of Rights prohibits government not only from searching our personal effects without a warrant but from seizing them in the first place.

Holding to this principle, we declare that mass surveillance has no place in this country.

It is time for reform. Elections are coming and we’re watching you.

21:03 GMT: A banner reading “Thank You Snowden” united thousands of protesters at the Capitol in Washington DC.



20:12 GMT: Penulis dan peguam bela privasi dari San Francisco Rainey Reitman dan peguam Kurt Opsahl berdiri di sebelah kepada beratus-ratus ribu petisyen ditandatangani untuk melindungi hak privasi.

20:12 GMT:  Writer and a privacy advocate from San Francisco Rainey Reitman and attorney Kurt Opsahl stand next to hundreds of thousands of petitions signed to protect privacy rights.

20:01 GMT: Aktivis inspirasi Hentikan Memerhati Kami penunjuk perasaan dengan tema pembukaan bagi filem-filem James Bond.

20:01 GMT: Activist inspires Stop Watching Us protesters with the opening theme for James Bond movies.


19:45 GMT: Twelve kotak besar daripada 575,000 tandatangan petisyen telah dikemu-kakan kepada orang ramai di kaki Capitol Amerika Syarikat. Bilangan penandatangan kini mencecah lebih 580,000.

19:45 GMT: Twelve large boxes of the 575,000 petition signatures have been presented to the crowd at the foot of the US Capitol. The number of signatories now stands at over 580,000.

19:40 GMT: NGO Kod Pink: Wanita untuk Keamanan mempunyai perwakilan yang berwarna-warni di perarakan.

19:40 GMT: NGO Code Pink: Women for Peace have a colorful delegation at the march.

19:16 GMT: "Ia adalah sangat penting bahawa orang-orang bersuara, mengambil tinda-kan, 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.

19:05 GMT: Kongres wakil Justin Amash memberitahu orang ramai bahawa membawa rang undang-undang anti-NSA untuk Kongres adalah detik paling membanggakan beliau sebagai pegawai yang dipilih.

18:48 GMT: "Kerajaan kita sendiri telah menjadi satu ancaman kepada kebebasan, di rumah dan di luar negara," kata bekas ahli Kongres, Dennis Kucinich.

19:16 GMT: “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”.

19:05 GMT: Congressional representative Justin Amash told the crowd that bringing his anti-NSA bill to Congress was his proudest moment as an elected official.

18:48 GMT: “Our own government has become a threat to freedom, at home and abroad,” said former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich.

18:05 GMT: Bekas  Jabatan penasihat etika Keadilan Amerika Syarikat, Jesselyn Radack, telah membaca kenyataan dari Edward Snowden. "Ini bukan mengenai garis merah atau biru atau pihak, dan ia pasti bukan tentang keganasan . . . ia mengenai kuasa, kawalan, dan amanah dalam kerajaan," katanya. "Ia adalah kira-kira dapat hidup dalam masyarakat Amerika yang bebas dan terbuka," kata kenyataan itu diteruskan. "Pilihanraya akan datang dan kita menonton anda." Snowden terus mengingatkan orang ramai bahawa tiada panggilan telefon di Amerika Syarikat dibuat tanpa NSA menyimpan rekod itu. "Mereka penjawat awam tidak penyiasat persendirian," katanya.

17:59 GMT: Pemberi Thomas Drake adalah menangani orang ramai. "Saya bernasib baik kerana saya tidak berakhir di dalam penjara yang sebenar," katanya. "Perkara terakhir yang bebas dan terbuka keperluan masyarakat pagar digital di sekeliling kita." Dia dipanggil untuk pemulihan Pindaan Keempat dan berkata bahawa NSA pengawasan "engenders takut dan menghakis kebebasan kita."

18:05 GMT: Former US Department of Justice ethics adviser, Jesselyn Radack, has read a statement from Edward Snowden. “This isn't about red or blue or party lines, and it definitely isn't about terrorism . . . it's about power, control, and trust in government,”  it said. “It's about being able to live in a free and open American society,” the statement continued. “Elections are coming and we are watching you.” Snowden went on to remind the crowd that no phone call in the USA is made without the NSA keeping a record of it. “They're public servants not private investigators,” he added.

17:59 GMT: Whistleblower Thomas Drake is addressing the crowd. "I am fortunate that I did not end up in actual prison," he said. “The last thing a free and open society needs is a digital fence around us.” He called for the restoration of the Fourth Amendment and said that NSA surveillance "engenders fear and erodes our freedom."

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)

17:50 GMT: Satu penceramah dialamatkan orang ramai membaca sajak "Pertama mereka datang . . ." selalunya dikaitkan dengan paderi Martin Niemöller.

17:15 GMT: Orang ramai di Cologne, barat Jerman, telah berkumpul di luar gereja ikonik di bandar ini. Banner yang bertanya: "Sekiranya kita semua menjadi 'Merkel' sebelum hak kita diambil serius?" Kiasan kepada Stasi - polis rahsia Timur-Jerman lama - dapat dilihat di khalayak ramai; pengawasan kerajaan masih menjadi isu sensitif.

17:50 GMT: One speaker addressed the crowd reciting the poem “First they came…” generally attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller.

17:15 GMT: Crowds in Cologne, western Germany, have gathered outside the city's iconic cathedral. The banner asks: "Should we all become a 'Merkel' before our rights are taken seriously?" Allusions to the Stasi ‒ the old East-German secret police ‒ can be seen in the crowd; government surveillance remains a sensitive issue.

17:09 GMT: Perarakan telah tiba di tempat yang dituju, berkumpul di kaki Capitol Amerika Syarikat. Pelbagai penceramah dijangka memberi ucapan kepada orang ramai berating NSA mengintip dan pemantauan kerajaan komunikasi.

17:09 GMT: The march has arrived at its point of destination, gathering at the foot of the US Capitol. A variety of speakers are expected to give speeches to the crowd berating NSA spying and government monitoring of communications.

16:56 GMT:

16:45 GMT: Menurut wartawan bebas, Rania Khalek, yang hadir pada perarakan, ia kini "kira-kira satu blok lama," dengan saksi-saksi yang lain menganggarkan ia menjadi lebih lama lagi. Orang ramai kini melaungkan: "Mereka berkata wiretap; kita katakan melawan kembali!"

16:30 GMT: Perarakan kini bergerak, dengan bunyi gendang berat.

16:25 GMT: RT Andrew Blake, yang hadir pada perarakan, telah mengenal pasti patung berdengung (Drone) di khalayak ramai, di samping seorang lelaki dalam topeng Obama memegang tampuk kamera pengawasan model.

16:45 GMT: According to independent journalist, Rania Khalek, who is present at the march, it is currently "about a block long," with other eyewitnesses estimating it to be even longer. The crowds are now chanting: "They say wiretap; we say fight back!"

16:30 GMT: The march is now moving, to the sound of heavy drums. 

16:25 GMT: RT's Andrew Blake, who is present at the march, has identified an effigy of a drone in the crowd, alongside a man in an Obama mask wielding a model surveillance camera.


16:21 GMT: dikir lanjut: "Hey hey, ho ho, pengawasan besar-besaran telah mendapat untuk pergi" boleh didengar.

16:12 GMT: Orang ramai yang melaungkan: "Kami adalah orang-orang. Mempertahankan Rang Undang-Undang Hak Asasi! "

16:06 GMT: Speaker adalah permulaan untuk menangani orang ramai, yang datang dari "di seluruh spektrum politik," menuntut bahawa Kongres "menyiasat sejauh penuh program NSA yang mengintip."

Antara bandar-bandar yang terlibat dalam protes bersimpati adalah Louisville, Kentucky, Austin, Texas, Birmingham, Alabama, dan lapan bandar-bandar yang berbeza di Jerman, menurut pemimpin perhimpunan.

16:21 GMT: dikir lanjut: "Hey hey, ho ho, pengawasan besar-besaran telah mendapat untuk pergi" boleh didengar.

16:21 GMT: Further chants of: “Hey hey, ho ho, mass surveillance has got to go!” can be heard.

16:12 GMT: The crowd is chanting: “We are the people. Defend the Bill of Rights!”

16:06 GMT: Speakers are beginning to address the crowd, who come from “across the political spectrum,” demanding that Congress “investigate the full extent of the NSA spying program.”

Among cities involved in sympathetic protests are Louisville, Kentucky, Austin, Texas, Birmingham, Alabama, and eight different cities in Germany, according to rally leaders.

David Segal dipertingkatkan untuk mengutuk NSA pencerobohan dalam talian, mengulas bahawa komunikasi rakyat "menentukan kehidupan kita dan juga umat manusia kita sendiri . . . seperti kita menyatakan harapan dan kebimbangan kita . . . mereka memerhatikan kami. Mereka menjalankan algoritma yang belajar kita semua . . ."

Beliau turut menambah bahawa komunikasi adalah 'dibuka untuk mereka mengambil' untuk boos kuat dari orang ramai.

"Tidak akan ada tempat untuk bersembunyi jika kerajaan ini pernah menjadi kezaliman yang . . . tidak akan ada cara untuk melawan," katanya.

15:42 GMT: Menurut anggaran saksi, hampir seribu telah pun tiba di Washington DC.

David Segal stepped up to denounce NSA online intrusions, commenting that people’s communications “define our lives and even our very humanity . . . as we express our hopes and fears . . . they are watching us. They are running algorithms that study all of us . . .”

He went on to add that communications are ‘open for their taking’ to loud boos from the crowd.

“There would be no place to hide if this government ever became a tyranny….there would be no way to fight back,” he said.

15:42 GMT: According to witness estimates, almost a thousand have already arrived in Washington DC. 


15:41 GMT: Seramai 120 orang menghadiri perhimpunan serentak yang berlaku di Munich pada hari Sabtu, menurut kenyataan polis rasmi.

Pada hari Rabu jurucakap kerajaan Jerman berkata Berlin mempunyai maklumat NSA mungkin telah mengintip Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel, mendorong Jerman untuk mengumumkan bahawa minggu depan ia akan menghantar ketua perisikan kanan untuk Washington

15:30 GMT: Peserta protes Amerika Syarikat memegang tampuk builboards mengandungi "Hentikan Memerhati Kami" slogan, di samping kenyataan seterusnya menuntut pember-hentian besar-besaran NSA mengintip. Lain-lain mempunyai gambar muka dan mesej terima kasih Snowden ini. Satu kumpulan yang hadir telah membawa bersama-sama payung terjun gergasi yang mengandungi logo kolektif.

15:41 GMT: Some 120 people attended a simultaneous rally taking place in Munich on Saturday, according to an official police statement.

On Wednesday a German government spokesman said that Berlin had information the NSA could have been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prompting Germany to announce that next week it would be sending senior intelligence chiefs to Washington

15:30 GMT: Participants of the US protests are wielding builboards bearing the "Stop Watching Us" slogan, alongside further statements demanding the cessation of mass NSA spying. Others have pictures of Snowden's face and messages of thanks. One group in attendance has brought along a giant parachute bearing the logo of the collective.

15:15 GMT: Hentikan Memerhati Kami telah menghasilkan video rasmi memberi platform kepada suara-suara pelbagai selebriti, ahli politik dan aktivis yang menentang NSA mengintip.

15:15 GMT: Stop Watching Us have produced an official video giving a platform to the voices of a variety of celebrities, politicians and activists who oppose NSA spying.



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