Letter to the editor: Elect officials who support restricting NSA spying

As we all have come to find out, the National Security Agency (NSA) is recording everything we do.

Every phone and cellular call, every email, tweet, online picture, video call, every cloud save of a document… you name it and it is recorded at a NSA server farm.

They intercept computer and digital packages to hardwire in key loggers and other tracking devices if you fit their broad definition potential terrorist, which covers about half of the population of the USA. Additionally, the NSA actively pushes spyware and virus on every digital device connected to the internet. That means they can turn on your webcam and record you, or access every file on your hard drive or network storage to view and save it.

So, our federal government now treats us as guilty until proven innocent which makes you a criminal in their eyes.

The government now ignores the fourth amendment all in the name of some generic abstract version of security because it doesn’t trust you.

The way to stop this is to have elected officials at the federal, state, and local level that seek to minimize our government size and to not limit our liberty.

In 2013, Congress had the chance to remove authority from the NSA to perform blanket collections of records of Americans. The amendment was pushed forward by Rep. Justin Amash (R) and Rep. John Conyers (D) of Michigan lost 217-205 with the NSA and President lobbying the big government Republicans and Democrats to beat the amendment.

Our own Rep. Larry Bucshon sided with the big brother government and voted against the amendment!

We must voice our opinion on the spying and support the recently announced class action lawsuit from Sen. Rand Paul (R) to stop the NSA actions that violate of the fourth amendment of the US Constitution. In addition, those who vote in the GOP primary must hold Larry Bucshon accountable for his poor voting history and support someone else in 2014, like Andrew McNeil, in the primary.

One way to support protecting our freedom is to strongly support State Senator Mike Delph (R) as he will be submitting a state bill to stop the NSA from violating the fourth amendment within our state borders.

We can make a difference, but have to want to be involved because silence will be deadly to your long term liberty.