<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>got this sent to me...hyped propaganda fear tactics for sure</div><div><br></div><div>However, has anyone done any research into the validity of these claims?</div><div><br></div><div>(Leaning in your direction Eddan )<br><br><div>"Many hands make for light work"</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Matt Hawes" <<a href="mailto:matt.w.hawes@campaignforliberty.com">matt.w.hawes@campaignforliberty.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 31, 2012 3:20:43 PM PDT<br><b>To:</b> Troy Massey <<a href="mailto:ecoeconomist11@gmail.com">ecoeconomist11@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Hands Off the Internet!</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:matt.w.hawes@campaignforliberty.com">matt.w.hawes@campaignforliberty.com</a><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><!--
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<td><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/img/logo2.jpg" alt=""></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><br> <span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 16px;"><br> Dear
Troy,<br> <br> Imagine government bureaucrats armed with whatever they want to know about you right at
their fingertips . . .<br> <br> What you read. What you watch. What you buy. What you say. Whom you
talk to.<br> <br> <u>What you think about THEM</u>.<br> <br>
Imagine it all being tied into an intricate network combining your Internet use, your credit card purchases, your federal and state tax information,
and your health records . . .<br> <br> Imagine the Internet – and with it the entire technological
revolution – SHUT DOWN with a ball of bureaucratic red tape, higher taxes, and government snooping.<br> <br>
Well, Troy, without your immediate action, I’m afraid that nightmare is right around the corner – and the days of a relatively
free Internet will come to a hard and fast end.<br> <br> That’s why it’s vital you complete
your Protect Internet Freedom Mandate IMMEDIATELY.<br> <br> But before I give you the
link, please let me explain why this fight deserves your attention – and hopefully your generous financial support . . .<br>
<br> <u>Under the guise of “protecting consumers” like you and me with “net neutrality,” “open
access,” and, of course, their favorite – “cybersecurity” - the statists have launched an all-out WAR for total control of the
Internet</u>.<br> <br> But their real target is you and me.<br> <br>
<span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> Just recently, we’ve seen a torrent of massive new
regulatory schemes rearing their ugly heads in Congress, including:</span> <p style="margin-left: 70px; text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> *** Internet Sales Taxes designed to hike the price of goods sold over the
Internet;</span></p> <span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> <p style="margin-left: 70px;
text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> *** The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would
give the government the power to shut down any website simply because someone made the “allegation” there was a copyright
violation;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 70px; text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;">
*** <u>The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act</u> of 2011 (CISPA), which would gut privacy laws and allow Internet
providers and websites to hand over personal data to ANY agency in the federal government;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 70px;
text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> *** The Internet “Kill Switch,” which
would allow the President to shut down the entire Internet at a moment’s notice.</span></p> <u>And this December, the United
Nations is meeting to come up with even MORE recommendations for international Internet regulations</u>!<br> <br>
<em>The Wall Street Journal</em> called it “a wake-up call for the world’s two billion web users, who take for granted the light
regulation of the Internet.”<br> <br> But sadly, with a constant rash of attacks coming from
virtually every direction, winning these battles is NOT going to be easy.<br> <br> Instead of trying to
ram just one or two schemes through Congress, it seems like the statists’ strategy is to kill the Internet by 1,000 cuts.<br>
<br> So our one chance is to send a LOUD AND CLEAR message to Congress: <br> <u><br>
HANDS OFF OUR INTERNET</u>!<br> <br> <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><img src="http://www.chooseliberty.org/images/if_click.jpg" alt=""></a><br> <br> That’s why it’s vital you <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong> sign the Protect Internet
Freedom Mandate IMMEDIATELY</strong></a>!<br> <br> And if you can, I hope you’ll agree to a <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>generous contribution</strong></a> of $50, $25, $10
– or whatever you can afford - to help me mobilize millions of Americans from all over the country to this critical fight.<br>
<br> You see, it’s not just our privacy at stake.<br> <br> Internet
freedom has unlocked individual self-empowerment, entrepreneurialism, creativity, innovation, and the creation of markets in ways never before
imagined in human history.<br> <br> In fact, the iPhone App alone has been responsible for creating nearly
half a million jobs in the United States since the iPhone was introduced...<br> <br> ... All in less than
five years - WITHOUT government permission, partnerships, subsidies, or regulations!<br> <br> But the
statists don’t care about the cost to the economy of shutting down or regulating the Internet.<br> <br>
The statists don’t care about all the new jobs created over the past few years.<br> <br> They
only care about one thing – and one thing only.<br> <br> <u>CONTROL. RAW GOVERNMENT POWER</u>.<br> <br> In one example of what happens when the government gets too much uncontested control, the FCC, which
has been charged by Congress with assigning spectrum rights through transparent, market-based auctions, has actually conducted very few fair and
transparent auctions. <br><br> Spectrum is the invisible airwaves that mobile devices, broadcast
television, and FM radio use to communicate, and private ownership of spectrum is forbidden by government. <br><br>
But since government controls the rights, it picks the winners and the losers. <br><br>
Instead of being fairly allocated, government involvement in spectrum has essentially created one of the largest corporate welfare programs in
history. <br><br> With control of the Internet, they believe they’d finally have the power to CRUSH
our liberty movement.<br> <br> After all, politicians and government bureaucrats alike are nervous about
the liberty movement’s skyrocketing rise on the political scene.<br> <br> And they know it would
hardly be imaginable without the Internet and the technological revolution.<br> <br> <u>So if they can
pull the plug on the Internet - or at least slow it down, raise costs, hamper access, and expand their spying powers - it could be enough to shut you
and me up, and shut us down, for good</u>.<br> <br> And with the November 2012 election rapidly
approaching, there’s literally nothing they’d love more.<br> <br> So new legislative schemes
are rearing their ugly heads virtually every week.<br> <br> New regulations are being crafted virtually
every day.<br> <br> And new monsters are being conjured up literally every hour in an effort to
“sell” this massive job-and-privacy-killing government crackdown on the Internet to the American people.<br> <br>
The only good news is, if you and I can turn up the heat now, we can win.<br> <br> But
this fight won’t be easy – or cheap.<br> <br> <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><img src="http://www.chooseliberty.org/images/if_click.jpg" alt=""></a><br> <br> So I’m counting on
your <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>IMMEDIATE contribution</strong></a> of
$50, $25, $10 - or whatever you can afford - to help me turn up the heat on Congress to keep our Internet free.<br> <br>
Your <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>signed Protect Internet
Freedom Mandate and your generous financial support</strong></a> will both play a critical part in helping me turn up the heat on Congress.<br>
<br> <span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> In fact, a generous <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>contribution</strong></a> of $50, $25, or $10
will help me:</span> <p style="margin-left: 70px; text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;">
>>> Contact up to 12 MILLION Americans by direct mail, email, and telephone to urge them to turn up the heat on Congress to
stop any attempt to shut down Internet freedom;</span></p> <span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;">
<p style="margin-left: 70px; text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 16px;"> >>>
Generate petitions, postcards, emails, and phone calls to members of Congress to remind them of the price they’ll pay should they even think
about increasing Internet regulations;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 70px; text-indent: -40px"><span style="font-family:
courier new; font-size: 16px;"> >>> Pay for hard-hitting Internet, radio, and - if I can raise the money – TV ads
to make sure politicians really start to feel the American people’s opposition to their radical schemes.</span></p> If
Campaign for Liberty can raise the funds, we’ll be able to send a loud and clear message to politicians of BOTH political parties – HANDS
OFF THE INTERNET!<br> <br> But I can’t do it without your support, and it’s absolutely
critical we launch this fight now.<br> <br> <u>This is not a battle we can afford to lose</u>.<br>
<br> So please, <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>sign the Protect Internet Freedom Mandate and
agree to your most generous contribution</strong></a> of $50, $25, $10 – or whatever you can afford - TODAY.<br> <br>
There’s not a moment to waste. <br> <br> <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong> Sign your Protect Internet
Freedom Mandate right away</strong></a>!<br> <br> In Liberty,<br> <img border="0" align="" src="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/cimages/9712f553eeb54df4c700abc96d8f0cb4/Matt_Hawes.jpg" alt="" style="margin: 0px;"><br>
Matt Hawes<br> Vice President<br> <br> P.S. Thanks to the
massive liberty movement that has been fueled by the Internet over the last few years, Big Government politicians are using every weapon in their
arsenal to shut you and me down – and shut us up.<br> <br> That’s why it’s vital you <a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><strong>sign the Protect Internet Freedom
Mandate</strong></a> and make your most generous contribution of $50, $25, or $10 TODAY!<br> <br> Help
send a loud-and-clear message to politicians of BOTH political parties – HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!<br> <br>
<a href="http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/8792626:12174527472:m:1:288052112:7DB4771E7A8B6CCE5CF113B5B5AFAAC0:r"><img src="http://www.chooseliberty.org/images/if_click.jpg" alt=""></a><br> <br> <br>
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