Take what you read here with a grain of salt, the quality of articles is variable. However, that at some level, the hearings were a sham, is not to be disputed.
When partisans, who are motivated to implement political ideology, over stewardship of public assets, are appointed to office... this is what you get. Everyone keeps accusing me of being political and I keep trying to tell you all that THEY are the ones who are bringing politics into your and my business, often partisan or ideologically radical politics, at that. http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/conn-carroll-documents-show-fcc-coordinated-net-neutrality-effort-outside I said years ago it was a waste of time to try to generate "good will" in WAshington DC. The other name for "good will" is bribery, and when the people change, all we did was start the history of both asking for and playing in a game of "who's got the most to offer". From day one, WISPA should have held a strident and inflexible position that ISP's are NOT to be subject to regulation, federal mandates, etc, and made friends of the organizations who would help us in that message and fight. Instead, we've played into their hands and now have no history except one of "going along to get along", while a tiny, but influential number of us who are still trying to get their hands on other people's money, have managed to make WISPA's history one of non-opposition to mandates and regulation - while continually shouting that opposition to mandates and regulations and refusal to accept such mandates was "partisan politics" - "radical politics" at that. I can't imagine and I'm not even trying to guess what percentage of WISP's believe as a matter of simple and straitforward principle that we should NOT be under the federal government's thumb, providing free labor for the benefit of politicians, as a price of being "allowed" into business. But I can't imagine that percentage being any less than almost all of us. It was and is, and always will be perfectly NON PARTISAN notion that businesses should be free to operate without providing blackmail money or free labor to politicians to serve the public's needs. It isn't even political. It's a rational and perfectly sensible idea for any businessperson to hold. And any American, for that matter. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
