Protesters used the Fourth of July reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Old State House in Boston yesterday to launch a daylong demonstration against the National Security Agency surveillance program and companies that they said help facilitate it by handing over private information to the government.
More than 100 protesters chanted, "Restore the Fourth (Amendment)," which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.
"I believe we need to get back to believing in the Constitution and our rights, and this is a great day to come out as an American," said Bryan Gallant, 29, of Leominster. "I don't agree with the NSA's tactics. Spying on Americans is unconstitutional."
Nate Barr, a 31-year-old entrepreneur and Web developer from Somerville, said domestic surveillance could put him and other business owners at a competitive disadvantage.
"Easily half of your (Web) traffic comes from international visitors, who may decide to use a foreign company over you because of their lack of trust in American businesses," Barr said. "There goes our industry."
Other protesters, some of whom carried signs bearing NSA leaker Edward Snowden's photo, called him a "true patriot" and a "textbook case of a whistleblower" whom President Obama should pardon for bringing the domestic surveillance program to light. Snowden is believed to be stuck in a transit area at a Moscow airport, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries.
"It used to be that political dissidents fled to the United States," said Matthew Krawitz, 42, of Swampscott. "Now they flee from the United States."
Krawitz and other protesters made their way toward Downtown Crossing, where they demonstrated outside Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, accusing them of facilitating government surveillance of U.S. citizens. Managers at all three stores declined to comment.
Yesterday's street demonstration — one of several around the nation — coincided with an online protest organized by the Internet Defense League, a coalition of thousands of websites that formed after the Internet blackout against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Sites displayed a message saying they stood by the Fourth Amendment and against the government's unconstitutional surveillance of Internet users. More than 13,000 people sent out a tweet with the same message, reaching a total of more than 9 million people.
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