🧵
@SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune @POTUS @VP
Unless & until Congress adds ironclad, specific provisions that actually protect American citizens from government abuse of FISA, the Patriot Act & the USA Freedom Act - with real teeth - these programs must be fully repealed.
🚨Every American should demand:
▫️Explicit protections for our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause & warrants.
▫️Protections for our First Amendment rights to free speech & free expression, so Americans are not targeted or intimidated for their posts, protests, or political views.
▫️Clear financial penalties (heavy fines on agencies and individuals) AND criminal penalties (including jail time for officials) for anyone who violates these rights through misuse of these laws including provisions that allow direct compensation to citizens whose rights were violated.
🚨You may be asking: What are these programs?
These programs were created for foreign threats BUT they have been repeatedly weaponized against American citizens in clear violation of the Constitution.
No more excuses. Congress must REPEAL them now until real safeguards are in place.
💥ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The FISA 702, Patriot Act & USA Freedom Act have been WEAPONIZED by the FBI, CIA & other agencies to ILLEGALLY surveil American citizens, trampling our Constitutional rights with impunity!
These laws, meant to protect us, HAVE BEEN ABUSED COUNTLESS TIMES, targeting innocent Americans for their speech, beliefs, or political views.
🚨WHY is there even a debate about reforming FISA 702? These laws - FISA 702, the Patriot Act, and the USA Freedom Act - MUST BE REPEALED IMMEDIATELY to stop this blatant violation of our freedoms!
🚨We have not forgotten the countless Americans who faced intimidating FBI visits just because Facebook or pre-X Twitter employees flagged their posts for being “conservative” or “offensive.”
These platforms colluded with the FBI to silence free speech, turning legal expression into a pretext for harassment.
This is unacceptable in a free society!
WE demand accountability & specific American citizen protection provisions without zero ambiguity - NOW!
🚨You may be asking:
👉🏻What is FISA?
▪️ The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first passed and signed into law on October 25, 1978.
▫️ It was supposed to create rules & oversight for spying on foreign powers & their agents inside the U.S. to gather foreign intelligence.
👀See next posts for verified abuses to American Citizens.
▫️ It requires warrants from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in most cases.
▫️ Government says it is MORE important than individual rights during national security threats - it has been used to illegally collect Americans’ data WITHOUT warrants, violating the Fourth Amendment:
“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.”