Introduction part 1

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -Ben Franklin. In the society we live in today everyone has a voice because of the interconnected devices such as phones and computers. Recently, everyone found out that it's now more a double sword than anything with NSA collecting all of our information. As quoted by the one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Ben Franklin refers to the whole reason we seceded from Great Britain, to have freedom. The present state of the America is not what I would call "free" anymore. Obama claims that our country cannot have 100% freedom and 100% security. Well, apparently the NSA is catching terrorists left and right? Maybe we are and the government isn't telling us, but what about Sandy Hook or even more importantly the Boston Bombers? The so-called full proof system should have set off some alerts for 2 suspicious guys going to Chechnya and buying all the ingredients to make pressure cooker bombs. We sacrifice a lot for a system that doesn't even work. With all the big protests we were able to create like occupy wall street, why is America just rolling over and accepting defeat in this case. We have voices why stop now? The government, the establishment built to protect our civil liberties, is violating the exact thing it vowed to protect. This isn't right for the government to have all of our personal information, it isn't freedom, it isn't America.

Introduction part 2

"We the People is a section of the whitehouse.gov website, launched September 22, 2011, for petitioning the current administration's policy experts. Petitions that meet a certain threshold of signatures will be reviewed by officials in the Administration and an official response will be issued.On August 23, 2012, the White House Director of Digital Strategy Macon Phillips released the source code for the platform.The source code is available on GitHub, and lists both public domain status as a work of the U.S. federal government and licensing under the GPL v2." As described above "We the people" is a government created site that makes it possible for anyone to make a petition that could be sent to congress. The petition that you make needs to reach 25,000 digital signatures with 30 days or the petition is killed. Now even after the petition gets 25,000 votes the government reviews it and obviously can reject the petition, but the point is sending a message more than anything. 25,000 people supporting a single cause definitely sends a message and lets the government know the people's opinions. I think this is a very appropriate approach in trying and get some change or even some noticeable attention from the government for this majorly opposed privacy issue. This social action is simple and applies to the audience who is opposed to the NSA spying. Anyone who has access to the internet can share this idea via social media and have it go "viral". I think anyone who uses social media is opposed to the NSA spying because it affects them most of all. I also think this social action is great because it's easy, private (among peers), and can be done on your own time.