[ale] OT: Go Vote!

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

Great, but what about the AT&T/NSA spying that started before september
11th?  Is that still going on?

On 7/19/06, Jay Finch <retief at larp.com> wrote:
>
>  Not sure if you knew this, but *USA Today* retracted that story on June
> 30th:
>
> http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/06/26/daily46.html?from_rss=1
>
> USA TODAY retracts BellSouth/NSA story Atlanta Business Chronicle - June
> 30, 2006
>
> USA TODAY has retracted a May news story in which it accused *BellSouth
> Corp.* <http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/BellSouth_Corp_1174.html>and other telecommunications companies of participating in a National
> Security Agency<http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22National%20Security%20Agency%22&t=atlanta>surveillance program.
> USA TODAY claimed in a news story in May that Atlanta-based BellSouth
> (NYSE: BLS), Verizon Wireless<http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22Verizon%20Wireless%22&t=atlanta>,
> *Sprint Nextel Corp.*<http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/Sprint_Nextel_Corp_290596.html>(NYSE: S) and
> *AT&T Inc.* <http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/gen/AT&T_Inc_318879.html>(NYSE: T) had been participating in a NSA surveillance program since after
> the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Following the story, BellSouth quickly
> sought a retraction from the McLean, Va.-based newspaper. BellSouth and the
> other telecoms were soon after hit with class-action suits<http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/06/12/newscolumn3.html>from customers following the USA TODAY story.
>
> -----------------------
>
> But it doesn't matter to me anyway - the government brainscanners won't
> get through my tinfoil skullcap.  I'll bounce the rays back up to their Mind
> Control Satellites, and let them control the Alien Overlord Xenu. ;-)   (I
> won't play in their little Illuminati games. heh)
>
> Cheers!
> Jay
>
> PS - Please regard the last paragraph as humor.  Your Mileage May Vary.
> Please, try the veal.  30-second Warranty not included.  Beware of the
> Leopard.
>
>
> Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
> You have all now been added to a government list because Dan is using a
> Bellsouth account.  I doubt the NSA has stopped at getting phone records
> from the phone companies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf Of Dan
> Lambert
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:45 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Go Vote!
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:10 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>  James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>     Along the same line..... am I the only one who voted in a Church?
> Doesn't that equate with government sponsored religion?
>
> -Jim P.
>
>  Nope. I vote in a church. Maybe we better not say anything. ACLU will be
> after them to stop that, too.
>
> Dan
>
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