Thanks for doing this Jon! I'm a very proud member of Get Fisa Right who is also very encouraged about the potential for our collaboration with Change.org.
I live in Madison, WI and I am a student activist at the University of Wisconsin. I am particularly intersted and excited about social networking based activism as I believe it will be integral in bridging the gap between student activism and the rest of the progressive movement. Sadly, I think stereotypes of student activists and what student activism should be continues to reign supreme and prevent youth from making the impact that we can and need to make. In fact, considering that students have such high levels of experience with new media and the most amount of free time to participate in new media campaigns I think it's an egregious waste that my generation is so seldomlny invovled with these kind of projects!
I have a lot of other interests, campaigns, and organizations that I'm working on or invovled with, but I thought I'd put out my thoughts as a student first to see if anyone had any ideas to help bridge this gap. I firmly believe that Get Fisa Right is a model for this kind of activism, and I am hoping that Change.org can be the ideal sort of forum to practice it!

My name is Craig Nazor, and I am a musician and an environmentalist in Austin, Texas. I have most recently been very alarmed at the erosion of our Constitutional rights. It is time to put a stop to the neoconservative assertion of the "Unitary Executive" interpretation of the Constitution. Even though this ultra-conservative viewpoint seems to be finally losing strength, once these Constitutional rights have been abridged, it will be hard to ever recover from the low standard that has already been set unless challenge it immediately.
In his book Assault on Reason, Al Gore predicted that the Internet had the potential to have a tremendous positive effect on America's democratic process, and I thing we are seeing just that. The Get FISA Right movement has been one of a number of exciting signs of renewal after one of the darkest periods of American leadership that I have ever witnessed. We need to keep the momentum going! 

Not only get FISA right, but return all our rights that Bush took away. All of them. Stop the War on Terror. End all combat operations everywhere; I'm talking Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria... everywhere. End them all. Right now. End them. There's no threat posed by Muslim extremists and there never was one. Close down the Department of Homeland Security. End the secret data-mining being done by the NSA. Stop it all. They never posed a threat to us. People like Barack Obama pose a threat to us. They mean to sow apathy. Hierarchist, capitalist, neo-conservatives pose a threat to civilization and life on Earth. They always have. Barack Obama is a puppet. He doesn't want to empower you. This whole Change website is just a way to trick you into thinking your government works still. It doesn't work. It hasn't worked in a hundred years. It's broken. Completely broken.

Vote: www.ni4d.us

I am a retired banker, splitting my time between Chicago and Florida.  I was horrified by the stead stream of revelations of Bush's attacks on our civil liberties and freedoms, and want to continue contributing to the restoration of these essential elements of the American experience.  
- Daniel

What happened to prosecuting Bush/Cheney and their putrid cohorts for murder, war crimes, and multople counts of treason? Sort of like I would be prosecuted, if I broke the law over and over and over in front of multiple millions of eye witnesses? Or even once in front of no witnesses? Will even the most liberal activists NOT follow up on this? First things first. And that means looking back.

Here's to World Court. Get it done I beg you. Obama is strange, inexplicable, kneeling before those who lost the election, leaving the rest of us, the vast majority, with our chins on our shoe-tops in disbelief. Obama has handed over the reins we gave him to McCain, Limbaugh, and Joe the Plumber. We're sunk without the international community. THAT is our one Hope for Change. It's clear.

The delight I take in seeing this wonderful First family in my White House is just not enough. Not even close. Sorry!

Hi Jon, weve already met via Facebook.  Hello to everyone else out there.  I am a life-long Republican (29 years) and spent 19 years in the Army and Reserves, 16 as an Officer.  I live out here in the heart of "Red" America, and am PROUD to have supported, contributed to, and campaigned for Barack Obama and helped to put a blueberry in the cherry pie of Nebraska by delivering an Electoral College vote in the Second Congressional District (we have a split vote law like Maine).

I spent a good part of my life willing to put my life on the line to defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, (from my oath of office as an officer) - and many of my fellow servicepeople have made the ultimate sacrifice. 

The Patriot Act and FISA are two of the most un-American, totalitarian pieces of legislation ever to pass, and disgrace, our Congress.  This legislation, its enforcement, and the implications thereof hark directly back to the actions and methodology of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930's - no small coincidence considering the source of the legislation, and the knee-jerk reaction that enabled their passing.

We are International Hypocrites for railing against countries that infringe upon the civil rights and liberties of their citizens when we do so ourselves.

Perhaps being born on the Fourth of July is what makes me such a patriot in the truest sense of the word, I don't know.  I do know this:  I will always be at the service of Get FISA Right, by word and deed, until we do restore our Constitutional Rights to ALL Citizens of these United States of America.  As one of the Founding Patriots of the this great Nation, Thomas Jefferson, wrote to Thomas Paine:  "Go on doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword."

It is great that you are doing this Jon. I think that the way to do this might be around the Patriot Act re authorization in December 2009 or before then. My understanding is that some of the provisions of the horrible so called Patriot Act will be up for review. There should be a big stink made that we want more than just a review of these three provisions that are set to expire. Let's review the whole darn act and restore as many rights as can safely be restored.

I'm glad that "restore FISA" (and the rest of our Constitutional rights) has been declared one of the 'top 10' issues.

I was disappointed in Obama's 'compromise' on FISA, and expected better of him based on his being a 'Constitutional lawyer', but maybe he was more of a 'politician' that day.  And I understand there's a 'sunset' clause for some of the new law's provisions.

But clearly, the SO-CALLED "Patriot Act" and other intrusive arrogations of unwarranted authority is a top-10 issue for the US.   

BTW - Isn't there news this week of the establishment of "FEMA" camps within military bases? 

I'm sympathetic to the "impeach them" impulse, but before punishment, and before a trial, an INVESTIGATION is clearly appropriate, so that America can know what was done.  Then, it will become more clear just what is the appropriate thing to do.

I am also glad that FISA is one of the top issues and the so-called "Patriot Act."
An investigation would help me once and for all understand how this totalitarian piece of legislature came to be.
I am looking at the National Initiative for Democracy (USA) The National Initiative for Democracy. An effort by The Democracy Foundation, a non-profit non-governmental organization, to create an initiative process at the federal level and in every other jurisdiction of government within the United States. Initiatives, also known as ballot initiatives allow citizens to propose, alter, or nullify laws in conjunction with traditional legislative bodies.
The process of direct decree is the legal basis proposed by The Democracy Foundation with which it hopes to sustain its proposed enactments. Direct decree is premised with the fact that 'people's sovereignty' implemented the US political system by direct decree in the US Constitution. It cites that document's opening clause, "We the people" as evidence of same sovereignty premise. By proposed logical extension, having legally created the government of the United States the people may alter it at any time in similar fashion.