An open letter to: The organizers of the “Minnesota Tea Parties.”

An open letter to:



The organizers of the “Minnesota Tea Parties.”



What kind of ideas do you people have if you are afraid to debate and fear the ideas of others?



You are no better than, certainly no alternative to, Barack Obama and the pathetic Democrats and the even more corrupt and disgraced Republicans.



Come on, put your ideas up against a real socialist.



I challenge you to hold debates in everyone of the Minnesota communities where you had your big-business/Wall Street financed “Tea Parties.”



Just give me the dates and times and I will be there to debate any of you on the issues you claim to be so concerned about.



It is easy for you to rant and rave against the perverted caricature of socialism you have created without having to sit side by side with a socialist and debate the issues.



Here I am… let’s have at it… or are you afraid to put your ideas out where they can be challenged in the “public square.”



Alan L. Maki

Director of Organizing,

Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council



When I try to post this message on the Tea Bagger's blog I keep getting this message with my posting never posted:



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What I see in your Tea Party “movement” is:



1. racism
2. vicious anti-communism
3. warmongers
4. people sucked in by Wall Street
5. a gross distortion of “patriotism.”



I would encourage all of you to read “Citizen Tom Paine” by Howard Fast and his other historical novels on the American Revolution to get some kind of basic grounding and understanding as to what constitutes fighting for freedom, justice and liberty.



You really have a very shallow understanding of the issues.



For instance—



Why no mention of this “little” fact:



Our government is wasting trillions of dollars maintaining over 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil dotting the globe in countries where we have no business when, instead, we should be establishing 800 public health care centers spread out across the United States providing free health care for everyone.



It is easy for you all to say things like you do using assumed names and monikers… I am wondering if you would dare to say such pathetically stupid, harmful and hurtful things if you had to sign your real names and provide contact information?



I would challenge any of you to debate these issues: anytime, anyplace anywhere.



Any takers?



Bak, bak, bak, bak, baaakkk, bak, bak, bak, baaaaakkkkkkkk.



Just a bunch of chicken shit patriots.



Give me a call if you can converse intelligently.



Alan L. Maki
218-386-2432





Alan L. Maki

58891 County Road 13

Warroad, Minnesota 56763

Phone: 218-386-2432

Cell phone: 651-587-5541

E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net



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Plan: Free high-speed Net access across U.S.

Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009

Plan: Free high-speed Net access across U.S.

Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The Federal Communications Commission took the first step last week in developing a comprehensive plan to give all Americans high-speed Internet access.

At a meeting in Washington, the commission put out a request for comments from the public and industry. The FCC will assemble its plan and present it to Congress by next February, as ordered in the economic stimulus package passed this year.

During the Bush administration, Democrats and consumer advocates called on the government to take a more hands-on approach to speed adoption of broadband, pointing to the higher uptake and Internet speeds available in some other countries.

"Despite the widespread recognition that high-speed Internet services are necessary, this is the first time a government agency will take a comprehensive look at the situation and recommend a course of action to remedy our rapidly declining broadband ranking," Gigi Sohn, president of advocacy group Public Knowledge, said Wednesday.

Internet service providers have stressed that freedom from regulation gives them incentive to invest. But they also could gain from government involvement. The stimulus package contained $7.2 billion in funding for broadband projects, and the development of the plan could mean there is more to come.

"Creating a climate for investment in advanced broadband networks should be Job One at the FCC," said Susanne Guyer, senior vice president for federal regulatory affairs at Verizon Communications Inc., the country's fourth-largest ISP.

Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell agreed that the country can do more to improve access to broadband, but pointed out that the number of broadband lines grew 17 times from 2000 to 2007.

"Let's be sure to recognize what has gone right at least as much as we analyze any shortcomings," he said in a statement.

According to instructions from Congress, the plan should address both the price and availability of broadband. When the Pew Internet and American Life Project asked households in 2007 and 2008 why they hadn't signed for broadband, those two factors ranked second and fourth, respectively. The largest factor, given by more than half, was that they didn't see the point.