NET NEUTRALITY NOW!

Net Neutrality is the biggest First Amendment issue of our era and of the 21st century.

When world wide web was created Net Neutrality was one of its main tenets. In fact our government intended it to be created equal across the Internet.

But now what was created for the benefit of the greater good is now being "pillaged" by corporate America. The internet super infrastructure doesn't discriminate and neither should Google and Verizon between wire-line and wireless frameworks.

By presetting its own rules Google and Verizon are just dividing the 'NET PIE' and they stand to profit from the private services they will offer.

Reading between the lines PC WORLD writes: "The proposal would force broadband providers to comply with "consumer protection and nondiscrimination standards" before offering private Internet services".

It behooves us to fight for our rights now, rather than to allow corporate America to dictate the content and configuration of what we see, what we read, what we watch.

We must avoid the onslaught of "spim and spam, SpamSMS, and Rickroll" and special services that will impede free speech.

Our Lawmakers must first realize this.  Again, not having Net Neutrality will impinge, and "Infringe on our Freedom of Speech".

Congress must not hand over and allow corporate America to dictate the rules regarding our First Amendment rights and the internet.

Ensuring unimpeded access to the NET is incredibly important for our economy, and our society. If left to for-profit companies to set the rules then expect a repeat of why the CAN-SPAM Act was enacted.

Corporate America will over-charge and under-deliver and do more harm than good, and should not be allowed to dictate what you as a legislator should do.

Moreover, as a political issue and a possible law “Net Neutrality” is a "win-win" issue.

Just think of the bipartisan support and political points a lawmaker would gain by being proactive with Net Neutrality.  Done right few direct problems will occur without risk.

You will have my support if you take on this issue.

Our representatives must support "Net Neutrality Now!"

 

Dear President Carter

Dear President Carter,

Your concerted effort in speaking to the racism we are encountering in this day and age is consoling.

As a young man in New York City I was inspired by your campaign for President, and your efforts with the Arab-Israeli peace process.

I ask the Lord for your continued health and vitality, and call on your continued commitment to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering, but most of all ask and encourage you to expand the discourse of racism and help end it once and for all. 

PS: Write President Carter a letter of support at: carterweb@emory.edu,

       or Visit his website at http://www.cartercenter.org/about/contact.html

Sincerely,
--
Charles Wheeler

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." - Abraham Lincoln

Take Courage Mr. President - Stand by The Cause!

Dear President Obama,

The eminent delay of Health Care Reform (HCR) is found in the oxymoron called the "trigger." If this country is ever helpless it is now as it continues to feebly mush through economic mediocrity. The “trigger” is like a double edge sword, it cuts both ways, and can be used against its proponents, but it has an onerous tone to it.

If it is accepted it will never be squeezed, and it will destroy HCR. If it is not accepted it can be used to raze its proponents. There is an often quoted allegory: The bitter enemy of the right intention is the best intention, and anything that excludes the public option from HCR like the health care “trigger” is exactly that – a best intention.

President Obama, do not be bluffed by the hand of the opposition they are good at throwing a bluff and then are better at bargaining for compromise in their favor. You have the better hand – a Royal Flush – your Ace in the hole is the people - you’ve got the majority of the country behind you in favor of HCR, and it was the reason we elected you – to bring change to Washington despite their intransigency. You have Joe Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and the Congress we gave you.

Do not be afraid it has been forty years since we have tried to get HCR and if you don’t pass it now it will be another forty years and a possible war before we break the strangle hold of inequality, privilege, and disparity. The Civil War gives us that example. Put politics aside, and err on the side of the people and you will never go wrong.

They’ve done it since the revolution, when the southern conservatives won a political victory against slavery and then secured and strengthened it with sanctions during and after the Revolution it took almost eighty years to rescind slavery. The tactic is the same incite anger, and revolt by scaring the congress to acquiesce to their demands.

Pull out all the stops get Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker Pelosi and call on your Surgeon General to speak up for HCR, call on some of the iconoclasts of industry to call for HCR, call on renown political writers to advocate for HCR, call on movie stars to rally for HCR, as a matter of fact create a commercial Like MTV’s – I want my MTV – that says, “I want my Healthcare.”

Better yet organize a National Health Care Rally for Monday October 12, and call on the millions of your supporters to descend on the Nation’s Mall in a call for Health Care reform.

Take Courage President Obama – Stand by The Cause!

Sincerely,

Charles Wheeler

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." - Abraham Lincoln