government jerks

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Semon, Russell (R.C.) [SMTP:rsemon@visteon.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 8:48 AM
>To: 'kbroquet@futaba.com'
>Subject: Government interference in E mail
>
> > >Subject: US Postal Service
> > > >
> > > >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 bill
>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 bureaucratic
>inefficiency. 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 =AE 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.
>
>
>Russ Semon
>Controls Engineer, Visteon, PCSD
>Rawsonville Plant - Room G 32
>Phone: (734) 48-48882
>Pager: (734) 797-3052
>Fax   : (734) 484-9049
>rsemon@visteon.com
>
>
>


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Dennis Krawczak
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