[ale] VOTING ALERT: Protect Your Freedom to Work!

[Charles Shapiro]

For real-world example of why this would be bad, look up the
difference between Massachusetts' Route 128 and
California's Silicon Valley.  MA has this kind of strong anti-compete
agreement protection for existing businesses; CA does not.
Which of these two tech areas was more successful?

-- CHS

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 09:19 -0400, dude-aaron-omy wrote:
>> In researching the candidates and issues for voting my
>> (paper, no reason required absentee) ballot today,
>> I discovered a serious election fraud issue that affects
>> everyone on this list, but most especially those who work
>> as contractors.
>>
>> Georgians need to protect their essential freedom to pursue
>> a livelihood by voting voting NO on AMENDMENT_1.
>>
>> Amendment_1 is a direct attack on the Free Market that
>> removes constitutional provisions which protect workers
>> from the extortion and entrapment of unrestricted corporate
>> non-competition contracts.
>>
>> The election fraud is that many voters won't know this fact
>> because the ballot description for Amendment_1 directly
>> contradicts the wording and intent of this republican led
>> attack on our most basic freedom. This blatant election fraud
>> is allowed under Georgia law because the republican
>> controlled State judiciary declared 2 years ago that the
>> amendment descriptions appearing on the ballot do not
>> need to have any correlation to the actual content of the
>> amendments being voted on.
>>
>> Worse, now that the republican stacked U.S. Supreme
>> Corruption has declared (in their infinite delusion) that
>> lifeless corporate charter papers are the equivalent of living,
>> breathing human beings, the entire state of Georgia is being
>> blanketed with fraudulent robo calls promoting Amendment_1
>> that come from corporate front organizations whose business
>> names and scripted claims are entirely antithetical to the
>> actual freedom destroying intent and affect of the legislation
>> they urge you to support.
>>
>> Once again we find that corporations hate free markets
>> (and especially free labor markets) almost as much as their
>> puppet republican party whores and their jack booted
>> teabagger brown shirt puppets hate the constitutional
>> government institutions that protect our freedoms.  Don't
>> let the rabid, corporate whore republicans undermine your
>> freedom and your right to earn a fair wage in the career
>> of your choosing.   Vote NO on Amendment_1!
>
> I am one of those "teabagger brown shirt puppets".  Arron is right on
> this amendment.  It would give the business the right to have you sign a
> non-compete (which right they have now) but the amendment would allow
> them to be overly broad and effective for two years.  Currently, if you
> sign a overly broad NC, the court would over rule it.  The new amendment
> would effectively force you not to work in an industry (IT?) for two
> years.  You would be forced not to change jobs for a better offer until
> after the NC time period has ended (again, two years).  There would be
> no reason to increase your pay, because, again, the competitor could not
> hire you away for two years after you stopped working for the first guy.
>
> Aron, please TRY to not paint in such a huge brush.
>>
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> Damon
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