User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-107.199.150.102-20140205152022

"Officer, I do not concent to searches" -- we have that right in face-to-face situations. That right should be applied in any setting. Call me a tinfooil hat-wearer if you wlil, but it occurred to me that this very sort of poll could potentially be used to further hone in on percieved 'troublemakers.'  Still (for reasons too long to elaborate on here I suspect that I may already be considered some sort of 'person of interest' -- which if somebody already is, stop and think about it, at which point I have nothing to lose).

I voted for and stand with this, I don't have a website of my own to post it on, but I expect to be reminded by someone else's (to contact my representitives on that day).

To all of you who say "I am a law-abiding citizen I have nothing to hide so I don't care" -- please take that thought a bit further. You are only a law-abiding citizen ONLY so long as the laws don't happen to call your activities 'illegal.'

America has built into it the right to overthrow the government etc... by removing our ability to arm ourselves as well as that which governs us, and very effectively removing our right to (what USED to be 'Lawful' assembly), monitoring our every communication -- they are insuring that (especially by the time its bad enough that enough of us start figuring it out) we citizens will never be able to act.

Its all good until something in your life, a life's circumstance, a moral dilemma, laws changing, etc, puts you in the line of fire (don't get too comfy thinking you're too smart, above it all etc, you just don't know) - Its really not the badguys who have to worry about this -- its YOU!