Now I've heard everything

[rgraham666]

I just got this in my e-mail.

As Congress prepares to vote, MoveOn and the Christian Coalition are joining forces to show that Internet freedom affects everyone.

Dear MoveOn member,

We never thought we'd see the day, but it's come: we're working together with the Christian Coalition. You read that right—the Christian Coalition has joined everyone from Google to MoveOn to the Gun Owners of America in the fight for Internet freedom. The momentum is on our side.

Internet companies like AT&T have been trying to win this fight by telling Republicans in Congress this is just a left-wing issue. But MoveOn and the Christian Coalition have designed a full-page New York Times ad to expose the truth: people across the spectrum are united behind Internet freedom! If we get that message out, we win.

The ad will cost $70,000 to run. If 2,000 people give $35 each, we'll be there. Plus, every dollar you give will be matched by a generous bequest.

Can you contribute to run an Internet freedom ad with the improbable pairing of MoveOn and the Christian Coalition? Click here to see the ad and make a donation:

https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/save_the_internet.html?id=7780-7032582-NyTPZzhb8GZsDdbMwDxnKw&t=3

This ad will make a big splash in Congress, with the public, and in the news. We'll share the cost of the ad with our partners, and any funds raised above our share will help support the organizing costs of MoveOn's Internet freedom campaign.

Last year, we received a very humbling gift: a MoveOn member named us in her will for over half a million dollars. This money is set up as a matching fund for critically important initiatives like this one. Every dollar you give today will bring in a dollar from this bequest, up to $100,000.

Everyone knows we deeply disagree with the Christian Coalition on many issues. It's safe to say the same is true for them. But we can agree on preserving the Internet as a venue for democratic participation, economic innovation, and free speech. The only serious opposition to Internet freedom comes from AT&T and other Internet operators who are spending millions lobbying Congress for more control over what we see and do online.

To win this fight, we need to show Congress the huge public backlash they will face if they sell out the Internet. The pairing of MoveOn and the Christian Coalition is unheard of, and it's sure to get Congress' attention.

Help run this attention-getting ad featuring MoveOn and the Christian Coalition. You can make a contribution at:

https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/save_the_internet.html?id=7780-7032582-NyTPZzhb8GZsDdbMwDxnKw&t=4

Internet users of all political stripes are fighting back together. The SavetheInternet.com Coalition—led by Free Press—includes the Christian Coalition, MoveOn, Gun Owners of America, the ACLU, Craig from Craigslist, Free Press, small businesses, consumer advocates, Internet advocates, musicians such as Moby, R.E.M., Q-Tip, The Roots, Trent Reznor of NIN, the Indigo Girls, and the Dixie Chicks,*and over 700 other organizations from around the country.

Also supporting Net Neutrality are high-tech pioneers like Google, Amazon, and eBay, as well as "fathers of the Internet" Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the www). We're part of something huge.

Thank you for all you do.

–Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team
**Thursday, May 25th, 2006
**
P.S. You can find out more about naming MoveOn as a beneficiary in your will by clicking here:

http://civic.moveon.org/bequest/?id=7780-7032582-NyTPZzhb8GZsDdbMwDxnKw&t=5

Source:
1. "Christian Coalition Announces Support for 'Net Neutrality' to Prevent Giant Phone and Cable Companies From Discriminating Against Web Sites," Christian Coalition, May 17, 2006
http://www.cc.org/content.cfm?id=329

 

[S-Des]

Not the best

I personally like the one I get from a foreign dictator asking me to give him my bank account number so he can put money in my account (but he always misspells the name of his country). I'm not sure if it's funnier that the email claims to have those groups working together, or that they're asking you for $35 to put an ad in the paper. Aren't there people starving and living without healthcare? They used to send out emails saying that the government was debating a tax on the internet to scare people into donating.

 

[Guest]

 

[Tom Collins]

You read that right—the Christian Coalition has joined everyone from Google to MoveOn to the Gun Owners of America in the fight for Internet freedom.

Can you say, "Oxymoron", boys and girls?

 

[hugo_sam]

Can you say, "Oxymoron", boys and girls?

Not sure, but I would venture economics. Outside of a few, most cannot bankroll large spending for their web adventures preaching. It the big money sites get control of the internet then all the 'little' guys are going to be shut out.
Politics make strange bedfellows, and economics make even stranger ones. lol

JMHO
Thanks Rob

Hugo

 

[Xelebes]

Can you say, "Oxymoron", boys and girls?

Christian Coalition can be for economic freedom. The internet is privately run system unfettered by governments and they realise they themselves could be shut out if a single company tries to do away with the freedoms that afford them to fundraise for their causes.

 

[kendo1]

Well then. Rob.
Are you going to donate to this worthy cause?

Ken

 

[rgraham666]

Well then. Rob.
Are you going to donate to this worthy cause?

Ken

If I had money, yes.

 

[kendo1]

Just send a prayer.
Tell them you have my blessing.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Wouldnt you like to be a fly on the wall when Rob tells them to their face: "No, I wont give you any money, but I can say a prayer for you, if you want?"

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I believe them, and I support them. I remember when ACLU defended the rights of Neo-nazis to march in a Jewish neighhborhood and another case where ACLU defended the rights of anti-abortion protesters to demonstrate.

I guess we've forgotten that left and right differ in ideology and outlook, but that they still share some basic principles and that the name of the game used to be compromise. It wasn't always a matter of hatred and invective and no-compromise warfare. It would be nice if we could go back to those days of agreeing to disagree rather than wishing the death and destruction of the other side.