UPDATE 1/11/06
This was slipped into a (must pass) Bill in Washington and signed by the
President.
"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate
telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted,
in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity
and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who
receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned
not more than two years, or both." DEFINE ANNOY
This could cover most Blogs and lot's of Emails. We do indeed annoy a lot
of people with our postings. Next they'll say we can't annoy people with
TV or radio spots.
POKER RUNS
Thanks to our AG the South Carolina AG has just issued an identical
Ruling. Other states look at Texas to see how we handle issues such as
this. Hopefully we can come up with a successful solution. We are
currently awaiting opinion from an attorney who is considering our
proposals for getting around the ruling. If we receive word that we would
possibly have a winnable case in court if called on to do so then we will
become a test case. We have put Poker Run on our Flyer for the Texas
Independence Day Freedom Rally to be held in Groesbeck on March 3-5. Come
out and join us and be a part of seeing how it plays out.
Who better than our politically active Warriors and Allies to do this? We
have been protecting biker's rights for the last 14 years with less than
1/10 of 1% of Texas riders doing their part. This is a real let down from
days of old when riders were Bros and worked together for the good of all
who ride.
Progressive Insurance has put out a list of ten cities with the least
number and the most Motorcycle crashes in the country. Texas did not have
any cities on the safest list but placed two cities on the most crashes
list. San Antonio came in at # 7 and the Upper Rio Grande Valley,
McAllen/Edinburg area was listed as #8 for the most crashes.
There are an awfully large number of cities in this country so this is
really bad news. When time permits we shall try to trace the cause for the
crashes. This should be an interesting bit of information.
Sputnik
