{"id":218,"date":"2011-02-11T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-02-11T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:38:23","slug":"thanks-for-opposing-extending-the-patriot-act-now-to-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/thanks-for-opposing-extending-the-patriot-act-now-to-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for opposing extending the PATRIOT Act, now to the Senate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to those pirates <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/keating-lynch-and-tsongas-vote-to-extend-patriot-act\/\">who contacted our Representatives<\/a>, especially Keating, Lynch and Tsongas, to urge them to vote against extending various anti-privacy provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.\u00a0 The House of Representatives held another vote yesterday, and <strong>the entire Massachusetts delegation voted for privacy and against increased government surveillance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it looks like the House will approve this bill and so we need to stop it in the Senate.\u00a0 Please contact both of our Senators and urge them to oppose any bill that will renew the following dangerous USA PATRIOT Act powers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government\u2019s power under USA PATRIOT Act Section 215 to obtain secret  court orders for Internet, phone and business records of people who are  not suspected of terrorism or spying;<\/li>\n<li>The government\u2019s &#8220;lone wolf wiretapping&#8221; power, allowing it to get  court orders authorizing secret foreign intelligence wiretaps against  individuals who have no connection to any foreign power or terrorist  group; and<\/li>\n<li>The government\u2019s power to obtain blank-check roving wiretap orders  that can be used to tap any phone number, email account or other  communications facility that the government believes is being used by  its target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can reach our Senators at:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott Brown<br \/>\n(202) 224-4543<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Kerry<br \/>\n(202) 224-2742<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to those pirates who contacted our Representatives, especially Keating, Lynch and Tsongas, to urge them to vote against extending various anti-privacy provisions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-secrecy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}