WAKE UP! by Theresa Cahill All Rights Reserved Copyright 2003 I understand that when people are told something over and over they take at least three different roads. 1. Ignore it - heck they aren't talking to ME! 2. Read and ignore it - oh, someone else will do something about it and save us all... 3. Get involved - these people know they have to stick up for their rights and themselves and not count on the other guy to do it for them. Unfortunately, as an online marketer large or small, there is one thing out there that cannot be ignored - but many have been doing just that... and for several months now. Your ability to email as you know it IS in jeopardy. I don't care whether you're an online marketer or not, even the average person stands to lose their fundamental right to email their Uncle Bob or Cousin Sally - the WAY they want to! Habeas is a threat to freedom online. I'll be honest with you. Yes, I could afford to pay the current $499 a year for this service. My questions are, and remain, "Why should I be forced to? Whatever happened to freedom on the internet?! Who died and made these people king? How in the world could they have the nerve to even start this...? And... how do they sleep at night?" (Answer to the last question: Rich and comfortably in case you ARE answering these questions, don't fool yourself about any nonprofit claims, did you see the price tag above?) Maybe back along the way, giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, the idea of squashing sp*m was a fairly decent idea. I know my inbox runneth over with junk I never asked for... mostly spiders pulling addresses from websites and b*lk mailers. Amazingly, of course, the one thing that always manages to get through is the p*r* - trust me something I NEVER asked to receive, but it gets through just fine. Okay, so back along the way a problem was recognized. Now, let's take a journey back a few decades... Anyone remember when they burned books back in Nazi Germany? Sure enough, someone thought they could decide "for the betterment of all" what should and should not be read. Now stop and think! If you'd lived back then would you have gaily thrown your books onto the bonfires, or would you have done your best to try to stop the insanity? OMPUAC http://nohabeas.megalists.net/join.html Here's a team of people willing to go to bat for YOUR basic right and freedom to use the internet as you see fit. They've been circulating information trying to wake you up and get you to DO SOMETHING, to stop the book burning - to act on your own behalf! I found out today that membership is feeble at best, publishers write to me telling me that subscribers are complaining (!) about hearing about it, and some actually unsubscribe because of a publisher's desire to make them aware of the neo-Nazi book burners online working extremely hard to make YOUR LIFE hell. My question is, "Are you just going to sit there and let them do this?" If yes, then do not be surprised when suddenly one day your Cousin Sally emails (assuming her letter gets through to you) asking why don't you ever write to her anymore? And you know you've written 10 times in the past month! Back along the way there was a hoax going around about paying a nickel an email. We all researched it and discovered, yep, just another hoax. Then, while we all remained complacent about our own personal freedoms online, a group of individuals snuck in through the backdoor. They ARE poised on the brink of changing the way YOU use your email... forever! Do YOU want to be sitting here a month from now saying to yourself, "Damn! If I'd only done something, it might have helped!" OMPUAC http://nohabeas.megalists.net/join.html Click this link now. Read. MAKE yourself aware of what's going on. JOIN. Part with even a buck if you can spare it. Do NOT say to yourself, "Yeah, yeah. I'll do it later." It won't take but a few seconds of your time... Do it now. Add your name to the petition (god forbid but apparently it's become necessary!) to Congress. You do NOT have to be a U.S. citizen to sign this puppy. Darn it... get INVOLVED! DON'T just sit there waiting once again for someone to save you. Without numbers, yes the "little people" like you and me can kiss our email as we now know it goodbye. What's next? Reading personal emails and censorship? Don't turn you back for a moment... OMPUAC http://nohabeas.megalists.net/join.html ========================================= ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Forget the typical resource box, click the link and make yourself heard. Stand up for yourself and for the rights of everyone everywhere! This is a world-wide issue! OMPUAC http://nohabeas.megalists.net/join.html