<story><title>Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein&apos;s lies on surveillance? Join Us</title><url>https://shameonfeinstein.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>If you really want to get Feinstein&amp;#x27;s attention, an internet petition, even an incredibly well-written one like TFA, isn&amp;#x27;t likely to do much. You need to pick up the phone and interact with a human being in her office, making sure that person understands the importance of this issue to you, one of her constituents.&lt;p&gt;If her staffers start being effectively being DDoSed from doing their jobs by phone calls about NSA surveillance, she &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; hear about it.&lt;p&gt;Source: my cousin and his wife were both Senate staffers for a number of years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein&apos;s lies on surveillance? Join Us</title><url>https://shameonfeinstein.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timw6n</author><text>The fact that there&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;Is this safe&amp;quot; link next to the  button for signing the petition is itself a telling indicator of the chilling effects of this sort of surveillance.&lt;p&gt;A couple of years ago people wouldn&amp;#x27;t even have imagined the possibility that there&amp;#x27;d be consequences from this sort of very low-level, very legitimate, democratic participation.</text></comment>