[Boatanchors] Options to BPL being squashed.

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Dick,

I agree with you.  What's at the link the previous email gives is totally 
devoid of any real information as to what they are asking you to sign a petition 
for.  They don't say where this bandwidth has suddenly appeared from (AFAIK 
none has recently been newly created - it has all existed since the end of the 
Big Bang).  Or what frequencies are up for grab.  Or anything other than verbal 
doubletalk.  

However, moveon.org is a well known left-wing pressure group.  They advocate 
things like total amnesty and free medical care for illegal aliens, open 
borders for illegal immigrants, abandoning the war against the Moslem terrorists, 
and other great ideas.  Their energy policy would be appropriate to the 
technology that existed in the 16th Century.  So I wouldn't sign anything that they 
advocate except for their death warrants.

In a message dated 5/29/2007 10:12:27 PM Central Daylight Time, 
w1ksz at earthlink.net writes: 
> I read through all that obfuscation and for the life of cannot fathom
> what I am endorsing. Doesn't anyone speak the Kings English any more ??
> 
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
> 
> RJ Mattson wrote:
> >I just learned about a really important issue, and signed a petition about 
> >it.
> >The federal government is on the verge of turning over a huge portion of 
> our 
> >public airwaves to companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast--who will use 
> >them for private enrichment instead of the public good.
> >These newly available airwaves are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to 
> >revolutionize Internet access -- beaming high-speed signals to every park 
> >bench, coffee shop, workplace, and home in America.
> >BPL, phone and cable companies don't want this competition to their 
> Internet 
> >service--they'd rather purchase the airwaves at auction and sit on them.
> >Read what is going on. You can sign the petition I signed here - urging the 
> 
> >government to make sure the public airwaves are used for the public good:
> >
> >http://civic.moveon.org/airwaves/?r_by=10433-3752612-Z4.GF8&rc=paste

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