| Author | Message: Fwd: FW: Your freedoms | Posted by: rigo de oliva
On: 6/4/1999 at 5:28:52 AM GMT
Message #: 64
See headers | >Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:03:53 -0700
>
>This is pretty important. Not the normal posting but I feel this needs to
>be known I hope I do not offend anyone
>
>
> >>>Have you all seen this!!
> >>>>
> >>>>Read the following and PLEASE PASS IT ON to everyone you
> >>>>know:
> >>>>
> >>>>Dear Internet Subscriber:
> >>>>
> >>>>Please read the following carefully if you intend to
> >>>>stay online and continue using email: The last few
> >>>>months have revealed an alarming trend in the
> >>>>Government of the United States attempting to quietly
> >>>>push through legislation that will affect your use of
> >>>>the Internet. Under proposed legislation the U.S.
> >>>>Postal Service will be attempting to bilk email users
> >>>>out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit
> >>>>the Federal Govt to charge a 5 cent surcharge on
> >>>>every email delivered, by billing Internet Service
> >>>>Providers at source. The consumer would then be
> >>>>billed in turn by the ISP. Washington D.C. lawyer
> >>>>Richard Stepp is
> >>>>working without pay to prevent this legislation from
> >>>>becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that
> >>>>lost revenue due to the proliferation of email is
> >>>>costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. You
> >>>>may have noticed their recent ad campaign "There is
> >>>>nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen
> >>>>received about 10 pieces of email per day in 1998, the
> >>>>cost to the typical individual would be an additional
> >>>>50 cents per day, or over $180 dollars per year, above
> >>>>and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that
> >>>>this would be money paid directly to the U.S. Postal
> >>>>Service for a service they do not even provide. The
> >>>>whole point of the Internet is democracy and
> >>>>non-interference. If the federal government is
> >>>>permitted to tamper with our
> >>>>liberties by adding a surcharge to email, who knows
> >>>>where it will end. You are already paying an
> >>>>exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureacratic
> >>>>->efficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a
> >>>>letter to be
> >>>>delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal
> >>>>Service is allowed to tinker with email, it will mark
> >>>>the end of the "free" Internet in the United States.
> >>>>One congressman, Tony Schnell (R) has even suggested a
> >>>>"twenty to forty dollar per month surcharge on all
> >>>>Internet service" above and beyond the government's
> >>>>proposed email charges. Note that most of the major
> >>>>newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception
> >>>>being the Washingtonian which called the idea of email
> >>>>surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come"
> >>>>March 6th 1999 Editorial) Don't sit by and watch your
> >>>>freedoms erode away!
> >>>>
> >>>>Send this email to all Americans on your list and tell
> >>>>your friends and relatives to write to their
> >>>>congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P. Kate Turner
> >>>>Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
> >>>>Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.
> >>>>
> >>>>It's the action, not the fruit of the action that's
> >>>>important. You have to do the right thing...You may
> >>>>never know what results come from your action. But if
> >>>>you do nothing, there will be no result. (Gandhi)
> >>>
>
>
>
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