Government Surveillance

16-Year-Old Launches Organization to Battle Warrantless Surveillance Posted on February 6, 2015 Written by freedomoutpost.com

Bran­don Keibler is just your ordi­nary 16-year-old from South­ern Indi­ana. At least that’s what some peo­ple might think. How­ever, hav­ing become an activist at four­teen and help­ing to estab­lish the Restore the Fourth orga­ni­za­tion, this young man has just launched an orga­ni­za­tion to encour­age grass­roots efforts aimed at a tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ment that wishes to dis­re­gard the fact that they are bound by law to gain a war­rant before they search or seize any­thing of any Amer­i­can cit­i­zen. This also includes war­rant­less sur­veil­lance of individuals.

Project Dig­i­tal Pri­vacy was launched on Jan­u­ary 24, 2015 as a result of increased social activism in regards to gov­ern­ment surveillance.

Accord­ing to the organization’s web­site, “Tech­nol­ogy and global com­mu­ni­ca­tion has reached a steady rate of advance­ment, with new forms of com­mu­nica­tive devices and con­cepts being formed every day. As such, it is in the best inter­est of both cit­i­zens of the United States and the world to keep it from becom­ing cor­rupted in any man­ner — to pre­serve the pow­er­ful and ever evolv­ing nature of these advance­ments. We are an orga­ni­za­tion that is ded­i­cated to non-violently end­ing war­rant­less dig­i­tal sur­veil­lance at the local level.”

“What we’re try­ing to do at Project Dig­i­tal Pri­vacy is to end war­rant­less sur­veil­lance at the local level by police depart­ments through the use of leg­is­la­tion and res­o­lu­tions in cities and coun­ties,” he told Free­dom Outpost.

In a sim­i­lar method to how Dan John­son of Peo­ple Against the National Defense Autho­riza­tion Act (PANDAA) is orches­trat­ing a move­ment to nul­lify the 2012 NDAA with its uncon­sti­tu­tional indef­i­nite deten­tion sec­tions, Keibler is hop­ing to do the same in a fight against crim­i­nal war­rant­less sur­veil­lance by peace offi­cers. In fact, he said that the model of his orga­ni­za­tion is based on Johnson’s.

In a press release by release by Project Dig­i­tal Pri­vacy, Keibler wrote:

The goal of the orga­ni­za­tion is to end war­rant­less dig­i­tal sur­veil­lance by local police forces in which pro­grams, like STINGRAY, tap into and col­lect meta­data on cell phones, com­put­ers, and more, with­out warrant.

These pro­grams, while very intru­sive and dis­turb­ing, have not been pub­licly shown to pre­vent crime because, in cities like Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, police have been extremely reluc­tant to release the results of war­rant­less sur­veil­lance programs.

Our orga­ni­za­tion is being launched because of the recent pub­lic atten­tion to war­rant­less sur­veil­lance. We strongly believe that every per­son val­ues the nat­ural rights bestowed upon them – one of those being secu­rity and pri­vacy, both in per­son and effects. We believe that with the recent uses of pro­grams like STINGRAY by local police depart­ments, the secu­rity and pri­vacy of an indi­vid­ual are threatened.

Accord­ing to the organization’s mis­sion state­ment, they are seek­ing to “non-violently end local and state level war­rant­less dig­i­tal sur­veil­lance in the United States, includ­ing that allowed through the USA PATRIOT Act – Sec­tion 215, National Defense Autho­riza­tion Act for the Fis­cal Year of 2014 – Sec­tion 1061, The For­eign Intel­li­gence Sur­veil­lance Act of 1978, and any sim­i­lar laws, by any non-violent means, includ­ing through the use of local leg­is­la­tion, spread­ing dig­i­tal tools, encour­ag­ing gov­ern­ment offi­cials who are work­ing to stop sur­veil­lance, and fight­ing to keep laws expand­ing upon war­rant­less sur­veil­lance from pass­ing at any level.”

Keibler said that he was in the process of get­ting res­o­lu­tions put for­ward in two towns in Penn­syl­va­nia and a county in Florida with a pop­u­la­tion of one million.

Under the US Con­sti­tu­tion, the peo­ple are to be pro­tected from this kind of inva­sion of pri­vacy. The Fourth Amend­ment reads:

The right of the peo­ple to be secure in their per­sons, houses, papers, and effects, against unrea­son­able searches and seizures, shall not be vio­lated, and no War­rants shall issue, but upon prob­a­ble cause, sup­ported by Oath or affir­ma­tion, and par­tic­u­larly describ­ing the place to be searched, and the per­sons or things to be seized.

The PDP web­site also has a model res­o­lu­tion that can be down­loaded and used as a basis for activists to sub­mit to their local gov­ern­ments. You can also con­tact Bran­don if you are inter­ested in join­ing his orga­ni­za­tion and part­ner­ing with him.

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  Source:http://agenda21news.com/2015/02/16-year-old-launches-organization-battle-warrantless-surveillance/#more-4705
  Comments
  We support defending our Constitutional rights including the necessity of warrants. Surveillance of regular US citizens is unnecessary. It’s as worthless and offensive as TSA roughing up grandma at the airport. Surveillance of potential terrorists is necessary, but should be limited to Islamic terrorists. That may require allowing “racial profiling”, but so be it.  Political correctness has shown itself to be a tool our enemies use to manipulate us.
  If the government has wasted money spying on regular citizens, I would hope that they know how worthless and dangerous and wasteful and corrupt we know they are. This alone could make them aware that we are angry and we will fight their attempts to completely remove our rights and freedoms. It has been said that Japan made no attempt to invade the U.S. during World War II, because we all had guns.  I would hope our government takes heed of the fact that we still have guns and we don’t appreciate the actions government has taken over the past 25 years.
  Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader