<story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&amp;#x27;t_, you really don&amp;#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.&lt;p&gt;Just like privacy doesn&amp;#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.&lt;p&gt;Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&amp;#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.&lt;p&gt;First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heimatau</author><text>Morality is difficult to stand up for. Civil rights was tough to fight for (still is). The right to privacy and govt transparency in the face of tyranny is another of those difficult battles.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s be like the founders and stand up to our government [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] List of quotes:&lt;p&gt;- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.&amp;quot; --Patrick Henry&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&amp;quot; --George Washington&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.&amp;quot; --William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783</text></comment>
<story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&amp;#x27;t_, you really don&amp;#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.&lt;p&gt;Just like privacy doesn&amp;#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.&lt;p&gt;Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&amp;#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.&lt;p&gt;First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benmcnelly</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know what long risk mitigation is, but I&amp;#x27;m offended. &amp;#x2F;s&lt;p&gt;But seriously, nobody at the NSA is going to place* you on a watch list because you are part of a small vocal minority that raised support online for Snowden, a wanted traitor and saboteur of the USA.&lt;p&gt;*There is however a good chance that the money grubbing bastards at one of the third party contractors the NSA eats up reports and analytics from will profile you into something you are not (or lets face it, you are) and that will be ingested into our intelligence pipeline.</text></comment>