Maggie Gyllenhaal and John Cusack aren’t crazy about the National Security Agency’s penchant for mass surveillance, but they want the NSA to to hear one thing loud and clear: Stop poking around in people’s private lives.
Gyllenhaal and Cusack are among a number of prominent people — including Phil Donahue, Oliver Stone and Wil Wheaton — who lend their voices to the new public-service announcement, “Stop Watching Us: The Video.”
The PSA was produced in support of the Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance, set for Saturday in Washington, D.C., the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act.
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In the video, Gyllenhaal and others rattle off the laundry list of ways that the NSA has nosed into the public’s business — including, as Gyllenhaal notes, monitoring “audio, video, photographs, documents, chat logs and emails.”
The video goes on to draw comparisons between the current situation with the NSA and Richard Nixon’s administration-toppling illegal taping, wth Cusack noting, “It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now.”
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Watch Gyllenhaal and her comrades make their case: