Fighting Corporate Welfare At Taxpayer's
Expense!
Note: We fully support the businesses in our
area, especially those which
have demonstrated that they can both conduct
business in a profitable
manner and still be good to our citizens
and our enviroment.
15 July 2006 - You won't believe what I found online! 6 photos! Click Here!
June 23rd, 2003 - View the videos of the Air Quality Permit Hearing
here.
Have you ever wondered where FedEx may spend
the $105 million they will receive in Tax Incentives from North Carolina’s
William S. Lee Act?
From the Greensboro News &
Record,
Thursday, October 17th, 2002
NBA NOTES
FEDEXFORUM: The $250 million arena being
built for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies will be called FedExForum.
The team will get $90 million over 20 years for the naming rights.
(Hint: It ain't UPS forking over the cash for this!)
Mayor Ron
Wietecka will eagerly tell you of
the moment he began his fight against the jets. The mayor of Park Ridge,
Ill., was campaigning five years ago when he met an elderly couple. The wife
was on a portable oxygen tank; the husband had cancer.
Read the complete story
here.
Great Letter To The
Editor."Documents in the
Federal Aviation Administration's administrative record revealed
dissension among FAA staff regarding the environmental study for the
FedEx hub." Read
it here.
Asthma: The Fastest-Growing Chronic Disease
in the U.S. Today! (Do we really need
to make it worse than it already is?)
"Imagine the first gasp, that struggle for breath,
the closing in of your lungs as they pant for air that seems not to be there:
Asthma.
Listen to Daniel Lage, 13, talk about what it
feels like: "It's like your lungs are getting smaller and smaller and you
can't get enough air and you can't breathe and you can't stay standing
up." Read
the rest of this article here.
Fantastic
new letter with real punch!
Lucy Smith wrote an outstanding letter
that clearly states what many have tried to find the proper words for. This
letter appeared in the Northwest Observer's 'Letters to the Editor'
section on October 16th. We proudly present it here, with the author's
permission. Lucy, Thank you.
Letter to the Editor - Guilford County Votes
To Conceal Crucial Data from Homeowners and Buyers
At their September 12th meeting, the County
Commissioners’ were presented with the proposed Airport Area Plan, a
land use plan which includes most of Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Colfax, Greensboro
and High Point. The FAA requires the endorsement of such a plan by area
municipalities before funding the 3rd runway for FedEx.
What is wrong with the plan? The basis of noise
measurement is not realistic. There’s no street detail on the map and
you cannot determine where you live. It was made to deceive and was accepted
on behalf of 400,000 people who will pay for the damages to themselves, while
benefit goes beyond our county to Rockingham, Forsyth (Winston-Salem), Davidson,
and of course FedEx. Crucial information will be withheld from the
public. (Read the rest of Lucy's letter
here!)
"If
we had to use 55DNL there WOULDN'T BE AN AIRPORT EXPANSION PLAN"
- Quote from a high-ranking member
of Guilford County's Planning Department and FedEx proponent.
55DNL
Map. See where the REAL noise
cones will be!
New study shows the Triad area is ranked 18th worst in
the nation for wasting water, mostly due to urban sprawl. "the drought-plagued
Triad wastes as much as 15.7 billion gallons of water each year because of
urban sprawl, ranking the three-city region among the worst metropolitan
areas in the nation." A FedEx hub would only make it worse.
Results of the Guilford
County Commissioner's Meeting
On Thursday evening, September 12th, the
Airport Area Plan Update was presented to the County Commissioners. While
two of the commissioners asked for a week's delay in the decision of the
plan, in order to give them more time to study it, FedEx's other back-pocket
commissioners voted to accept it, nine to two. Kudos to those two brave
commissioners who dared to question the plan. Shame on you to the nine who
accepted it without bothering to review it carefully, while ignoring your
responsibility to listen to the citizens you were elected to represent. We
know you are in FedEx's back pocket. It's only a matter of time before we
prove it.
The towns of Summerfield and Oak Ridge have
rejected this plan. The very perceptive first reaction from the
Summerfield Council was that "this is a nice plan, but it is 30 years
too late!" High Point has taken the plan to committee and has not yet,
as far as I know, made a decision whether to support it or not. The Greensboro
Council passed it without any heed to the points 7 speakers made against
it. Kernersville, Winston-Salem, and Forsyth County also passed it.
The FAA requires that an Airport Area Plan Update
be in place for the FedEx project to go forward, since the old plan is 16
years out of date! (It was done in 1986.) The fatal flaw and unreality
of this plan is that it doesn't take into consideration the huge amount of
residential development around where PTAA proposes to put a third, parallel
runway. If we were dealing with a blank canvas (i.e. no current development),
the plan would be a good plan. But we are not dealing with a blank canvas.
Tens of thousands of people will be in harm's way with a FedEx hub at
PTIA.
Thank you to all who came to the meeting and
supported those who raised objections and asked the Commissioners to reject
the plan, or at least to take the time to actually study it. The
Commissioners have a duty to stand by their decision to zone this land
Residential. (No buffer zone has been created around the proposed third runway,
as has been done around the main, existing runway.) They have a duty to protect
their citizens, who have been paying taxes on this land for 30 years and
more - a duty they have apparently decided to ignore. They have clearly shown
their bias and refusal to reassess whether the FedEx type jobs, which are
already available at the Bulk Mail Center for more money and at UPS,
are worth the DAMAGE, both human and environmental, that will be done by
this hub.
One final note: Should the hub actually come
to pass, it will be YOU the taxpayer who will carry the burden of
paying millions of dollars in compensation over a period of years to the
tens of thousands of people who will be negatively affected by the hub, just
as taxpayers are footing the bill in Louisville, Kentucky more than a decade
after a night-time cargo hub was built there. Think about it. If you are
a resident of Guilford County, you are already paying some of the highest
property taxes in the state. The federal government will place the costs
of mitigation squarely on the backs of the residents of Guilford
County.
High Point City Councilman Al Campbell called
the recent presentation to the High Point City Council "a witch hunt" and
stalked out of the meeting before it even got going good, without bothering
to listen to the facts. In an attempt to explain away his childish actions,
Al Campbell sent
this letter to the High Point Enterprise.
Question: Do we want someone like Al Campbell
who doesn't take the time to learn all the facts about an issue as important
as this to represent the citizens of High Point? We have to wonder that if
the facts of this issue are this unimportant to him, how unimportant are
the facts to him of "smaller" issues?
Proving once again that the whole FedEx Hub
fiasco is being done without concern for the citizens or proper legal process,
the rubber stamp of approval was given by the Federal Aviation Administration
when they announced they will commit $108,000,000.00 of your
"tax" dollars to pay for the third runway, even though the hub has yet to
gain final approval. It is still waiting for, among other items, approval
from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the results of several
pending lawsuits. Committing this money to a project that has not yet received
final approval displays an amazing amount of arrogance and shows that the
FAA believes the "fix" is in, and that nothing will stop them from getting
their way. Let the FAA know this is unacceptable by writing to them at:
Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20591
Is This A Sign Of
Things To Come?
Update on the Kent Urbine case against the
condemnation of his property.More...
PTIAA wants to change
the rules on us again. Read the "NOTICE of
PROPOSED VARIANCE" for
PTAA’s
Watershed Review.
You now have a chance to make both written and oral comments
on this very important matter. The scheduled meeting is on June 18, 2002,
3:30 p.m. Stanley Frank Board Room Piedmont Triad International Airport 6415
Bryan Boulevard Greensboro, N.C. After hearing the proposal and public comments,
the Watershed Review Board may act on the Proposed Variance.
The disappointing but predictable results of the Airport
Area Plan Update Meeting held Thursday, September 12th.
Details
here
NC Alliance for Transportation Reform Announces Opposition To FedEx
Cargo Hub
RESOLUTION OPPOSING LOCATING A FEDEX CARGO HUB
AT PTI AIRPORT
WHEREAS: Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) is seeking
to construct a CARGO TRANSSHIPMENT HUB with a new third runway at Piedmont
Triad International Airport with nighttime operation in an established
residential area of Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County; this private business
enterprise to be supported by millions of dollars of taxpayer money, and
WHEREAS: The construction of this facility,
and especially the construction of an unnecessary third runway that FedEx
has made a condition of its locating at this facility, would cause irreparable
damage to the environment and existing road infrastructure, and
WHEREAS: The location and orientation of this
runway, along with the nighttime operation of noisy, cargo laden planes would
greatly disturb the peace and tranquility of a large number of homes in
established neighborhoods, both in Greensboro and in High Point, if not all
across Guilford County, and
WHEREAS: In selecting this site for its proposed
cargo hub, FedEx and the FAA failed to adequately consider alternate sites,
especially the sparsely-populated area of the Global TransPark near Kinston,
NC, which was planned/built specifically for such purposes, and
WHEREAS: The North Carolina Alliance for
Transportation Reform is a state-wide organization whose mission is to improve
transportation (including aviation) in this state, to conserve our natural
resources, and to make the most judicious use of our land.
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT: The North Carolina
Alliance for Transportation Reform opposes locating the FedEx cargo hub at
Piedmont Triad International Airport for the following reasons:
1. It is poor transportation policy to locate
a noisy nighttime operation in the midst of a densely-populated area.
2. It would use land unwisely.
3. It would cause unnecessary environmental
damage; therefore damage to those who live in that environment.
From the Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare
O'HARE POLLUTION-CAUSES CANCER
Is there a correlation between increased cancer
reports and the area surrounding O'Hare Airport or not? AReCO (Alliance of
Residents Concerning O'Hare) says there is, and that the situation is already
spiraling out of control!
According to O'Hare's own data, it already produces
more than 18% of known industrial carcinogens in Cook County (pop. 5.4 million);
Cook is the second largest producer in the nation.
More...
The
Record of Decision is now online. (Well, most of it.
They left parts of it out of the electronically published version, preferring
to leave some in paper-only format, to make it harder for you to see and
read. We will fix that for you shortly.)
Read the Record of Decision for Proposed
Runway 5L/23R, Proposed Overnight Express Air Cargo Sorting and Distribution
Facility and Associated Development (Dec. 2001) (.HTML format, or download
the actual document
here.)
Read the
excerpts from the comments the
FAA decided to respond to here. Note: For this document, they took the bits
and pieces of the letters submitted during the comment period they felt like
responding to, and ignored the other parts. At no point we could find
in this document was there a response acknowledging that a legitimate
point against the hub had been brought out. This doesn't sound like
a fair response to the questions and comments people submitted. It is not
fair for them to pick and choose only part of the legitimate concerns citizens
have to respond to. They should have to respond to all questions and
comments, not just the ones they like.
Don't think the planes will be flying over
your house? Look at the map of
existing flight tracks.
Serious Flaw In The
FAA Report Found!
There is a serious anomaly between the FAAs
environmental study for the Piedmont Triad International Airport and the
one for Charlotte/Douglas International Airport done in 1998. The noise contour
for an identical event - the departure of a hush-kitted 727, extends
four miles from the end of the runway for Charlotte but only two
miles from the end of the runway for Greensboro.
Shrinking the noise contour from four miles to two miles for Greensboro
conveniently reduces the number of people exposed to ear-splitting nighttime
noise from 10,000 to 946.
The use by the FAA of an elastic yardstick to measure noise shows they are
willing to say or do anything to meet it's goals of more runways at any cost,
whether or not they are truly needed.
Read what other publications are saying about
aircraft
noise.
FAA Releases Final Report.
Local Officials Call Report An "Amazing Work Of Fiction."
Airport expansion plans come to
screeching halt!
(We should be so lucky...)
In short, the FAA couldn't make the numbers work, so they changed the
way they measured things. Read the summary of the report here.(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Note: This is just the summary. The full document is six volumes
and includes about a hundred drawings and diagrams. As in the past, they
put in only the parts they want you to see in the summary, and leave the
parts they don't want you to see in the full report, hoping you won't bother
to read past the summary. It should be noted that in every other hub city,
the FAA has consistently underestimated the noise, pollution, damage
and number of homes that had to be bought out. The FAA is in the business
of building runways and is willing to do so at almost any cost. (See
the note below titled "Serious Flaw In The FAA Report.")
The FAA has NEVER turned down a proposal to build.
New: Read
"Second
Opinion" by Jean Black of the Land-Use Subcommittee Of The Airport Update
Committee.
The Question No One Else Dares To Ask: Does Fred Smith and FedEx have Ed Crane and the Cato Institute
in their back pockets?
Read why we ask here!
Did anyone besides me notice that the FAA
report and the NC Supreme court ruling on the Urbine land issue
conveniently came out only days after the election? Nahh, there's no corruption in our state and local governments and
courts.
Editorial: Doug Clark, The High Point Enterprise, and
Censorship?
On Tuesday the 6th, our PQLC and CAC endorsed
candidates for Greensboro City Council and Mayor were beaten by the big-business
political machine, but we DID post some impressive numbers. In what many
of us considered our best potential to win, Valerie Rechtin pulled 3057 votes,
almost 42%, of District 4 voters. Val had no previous elected office
experience and, we witnessed a few PR faux pas early in the race, magnified
by local press. The largest obstacle was the money spent by Gatten, which
exceeded $32,000... about twice what Rechtin was able to muster and
possibly the highest amount ever spent to win a single District Council
seat.
In the mayor's race, Roch Smith Jr. ran an
articulate, well-balanced platform of challenges to Holliday, not limited
to an anti-FedEx position. It was a respectable 5864 voters (25%) that thought
Roch would bring a positive change to our city and this figure-head office.
In retrospect, Roch's decision to run for mayor was about three months late
and funds were too limited to make up for time lost. We hope Roch will continue
to work with our groups and keep himself available for public office.
In summary, it wasn't "dozens" or "just a few
hundred" Stop-FedExers that voted in Greensboro. THOUSANDS of better
informed, concerned citizens came out to support these candidates. If this
was the only referendum we'll be allowed on the FedEx hub, Greensboro city
voters showed up in SIGNIFICANT numbers! Thanks to all that contributed
their time and money to the various candidates. The FEIS is rumored to be
released within the week. This fight is far from over, as a legal battle
is about to be waged. Keep the faith... and as the CAC's Ron Goga reminds
us "The truth is on our side."
We asked, The Commissioners didn't even bother
to respond.
High Point Mayor Arnold Koonce Says
"No!" To FedEx cargo hub.
Read the story
here
Summerfield
Votes a Resounding "NO!"
to FedEx! Details.
Read excerpts from the RTS
Document - The parts the Proponents don't want you to
see!
Why the FAA 24-hour averaging for aircraft
noise does not work:
Posted on the Greensboro News & Record's
FedEx message boards:
"Did you know when OSHA measures noise levels
in say manufacturing, they measure single event levels? One of our areas
in mfg had a noise level of 85db and we would need ear protection. If we
could get the FAA to come into our company, we could explain that dept only
operates 1st shift, no 2nd or 3rd. Average that over 24 hours, 365 days a
year, which will include our shutdown and holidays off. We should be OK and
not have to protect our employees hearing. Our employees came to us looking
for work, they knew it was manufacturing, surely they didn't think it would
be quiet. No one is forcing them to stay on the job. We could always hire
pro-FedEx people who don't have an issue with noise. They would never sue
us for damages, because they understand it's all about progress."
- posted by TSQU3
Read the FedEx Hub
Statement From The Conservation Council Of North Carolina
Must see: The"Fed
Up"Home Page: "When working at FedEx has irrefutably, undeniably
become the pits!!"
(Read this, and then decide if these proposed "New Jobs" are as wonderful
as PTIA would have you believe! Note: Includes the gory true details of the
FedEx employees "grievance procedures". See the "Hall Of Shame" link
below)
63 Area Doctors
Speak Out On
FedEx Proposal.
Read it
Here.
FedEx
Hall
Of Shame: "We're workers, not lawyers, yet we're isolated in a room
one at a time against a collective of highly trained adversaries."
FedEx has proposed a new hub to be built
in Greensboro, North Carolina. We, the residents of the Greensboro, High
Point, Jamestown, and surrounding areas feel that this new hub does not belong
in our area.
Who we
are:
We are a group of concerned citizens who believe in healthy, responsible
business growth with job opportunities that foster a better environment for
all concerned. We do not believe in business growth just for the sake of
more business. We are not the same group as PQLC, but we
are working towards one of their many fine goals, which is to keep the FedEx
hub out. Please understand that we are two different groups.
Excessive noise, pollution, traffic problems
as well as the loss of homes as follows:
The new hub will eventually have
63 incoming and
63 outgoing flight events a night (126 total flight events, not the 63
they would have you believe. Reference the "Executive Summary for the DEIS"
Report (in Adobe PDF format here.
Interestingly, the PTIA web site's
here doesn't
mention this fact at all, at this time. Note: the above link no longer works.
PTIA removed it, perhaps out of shame? A search of their web site showed
no sign of it. We will post the link to the correct document when we
can.)
These flights will take place between the hours
of 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM.
This will be one flight on average of every
2 minutes 51 seconds.
These 126 flight events a night are in addition
to the commercial and cargo flights already coming into the airport.
Residents within twenty-five miles of the airport,
within the designated flight path will be subjected to excessive noises of
these flights while they try to sleep, including many residents who were
not previously in the existing flight paths.
As many as thirty five thousand people will
be subjected to this constant barrage of noise, not the "few hundred" they
would have you believe.
The vast increase in traffic, both by plane
and trucks to support the new hub, will result in an increase in pollution
in an area that already reaches an alert level of "orange" on a regular basis.
(26 days ORANGE in 2001 alone)
Only 1650 new jobs will result from the hub,
most of which are low-tech, part time, and low-paying with minimal benefits.
This is an increase in the number of jobs in the Triad area of less than
1/2 of one percent. Very few of these jobs will pay more than $30,000 a year.
Most will be considerably less than
$20,000 a
year.
"FedEx will NOT pay at least $38.6 million in
County taxes or $41.2 million in State taxes over 20 years. Thus, FedEx is
exempted from paying an average of $1.93 million a year in County revenue
and and $2.06 million a year in State revenue - a $4 million tax break per
year." (Quoted from the
Piedmont
Quality Of Life Coalition.) FedEx also has been granted other tax breaks,
including some that their competitors will not be allowed to have for conducting
the same business.
A report by the EPA recommends against the hub,
but it is a recommendation only. The FAA does not have to follow the
recommendation, and all indications are that they intend to disregard
it.
The airport authority has made it clear that
they will have to
acquire land
currently owned and occupied by residents in order to do this. We feel this
means that the people's land will be condemned, and the owners will receive
"bottom dollar" for their property. Already, one property owner,
Kent Urbine,
has had his property "condemned" by the "government" for this project that
will only benefit a large business.
UPS built a large hub in Louisville, Kentucky,
and in 1995 the noise was so bad, that city officials had to come up with
a plan to move all 1,800 residents of Minor Lane Heights (a previously quiet
neighborhood) to a new location because of excessive airport noise. In essence,
they are moving an entire town because of the noise. Click
here
for details, or
here for
the 14.4 Real Audio file, or
here for
the 28.8 Real Audio file.
Update: There are still residents of Minor Lane Heights waiting for their
homes to be moved, after all these years. After all the promises, now residents
are being told "there isn't any money this year, perhaps there will be next
year." The buyout / move is being done on a "lottery" type system, where
when a person's address is drawn from a "hat" that's when they get
moved.
The new hub will not be owned by FedEx,
but by the airport. The hub will be leased to FedEx. Should FedEx
decide to leave later, taxpayers will probably be stuck with paying for this
multi-million dollar complex that no one else will have any usage for, and
no taxes will be collected on to offset any losses.
Those not forced out of their homes will find
their property value will go down a significant amount, due to the increase
in noise.
The offer by the airport authority to noise
proof people's houses at no charge still does not fully address the issue.
Who wants to live in a home where you can not go out into your own yard,
or sleep with the windows open because of excessive noise?
Many of the people that will be affected are
not now in or near the flight path of the airport's current operations,
so the argument about choosing to live near an airport doesn't hold
water.
The increase in noise will have a serious impact
on the levels of stress experienced by the residents in the flight path.
This is a sure guarantee of an increase in violent crimes committed as acts
of passion. Read an
update
here.
FedEx and the Triad Airport Authority have only
offered token lip service to the concerns of the residents. At a previous
public meeting, ten residents only were allowed to speak for the first time.
They were allowed only three minutes each. Most of the other meetings were
either unannounced, closed to the public, or held at times where most people
would have to leave their jobs to be able to attend. At the last meeting,
held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 9/19/2000, speakers again were given a generous
three minutes each to speak. If you ran over, you got a buzzer. Also, the
board members refused to answer questions. (See
What's New for details.)
The Greensboro
News-Record has
a special web site
listing information
from both sides
of the fight. Click
here to visit
their site
Here's how you can help us win this fight:
1. Write your congressman, the airport authority, the FAA, etc. Click
here
for addresses and a sample letter you can use
2.Stop using FedEx for your shipping. Do not
use FedEx to send packages, and ask your suppliers to use a different service.
Money is the driving force behind this hub, and the only thing FedEx will
listen to is money. Click
this link
for a list of alternative shippers. Click this
link for
information about our
"One Package,
One Day" campaign.
3. Support the Alliance For Legal Action.
Read about them here.
4. Buy and display our
bumper stickers and
T-shirts.
Proceeds from the sale of these bumper stickers and T-shirts will go towards
helping us fight FedEx by paying for advertising, this website, and other
expenses such as flyers, etc. We are non-profit, and all moneys will be used
for the fight.
Make a donation. All donations will now go to
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5. Tell everyone about this page. Call your
local radio and TV stations, your local newspapers and magazines. Help us
keep our homes. Say NO to the big business machine of FedEx before they ruin
YOUR home. Show them that your voice counts!
Note to
FedEx®
- Our calling for a boycott of your services is legal. If you have doubt,
then look no further than the NAACP. They have boycotted an entire state
over the display of a flag. We have verified with the ACLU and our own attorneys
that our boycott is legal, and any attempt to force us to stop our boycott
will be met with all the legal action we and the ACLU can muster.
Note 2:
FedEx® is
a registered trademark of
FedEx®.
We use the name solely to help identify who and
what we are protesting.
Note 3: I am more than willing to accept assistance with the page
as this is a huge undertaking. If you have pictures or articles you would
like for me to publish, e-mail me at
submissions@boycottfedex.com.
Special thanks go to the people who have already helped with the site, and
who continue to help. Donations to assist our efforts are appreciated, and
will be used only to help the fight.
Note 4: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "boycott"
as: "to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person,
store, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance
of certain conditions"
They wish to force us to accept increased noise, pollution, and traffic by
building an unwanted hub at our local airport. We wish they would go somewhere
else that actually wants them.
Mulligan Stew: The
Meeting gets canceled!
Read about what
really happened here!
Note 5: We strive to verify all facts presented on this web site
as much as we can. We do not believe in the misrepresentation of facts or
distorting the truth to further our cause. The facts and the truth are what
count, and we will bring those facts and the truth out. We are also willing
to let the other side present their arguments, but ranting and raving doesn't
count. Just the facts, and only if presented in a calm, rational manner will
be accepted. We realize there are always two sides to an argument.
FedEx:
When You Absolutely, Positively
Have To Stay Awake All
Night.*
FedEx
RACISM, DRUGS, THEFTS & FRAUD - A True story told by "An Honest
Courier"
Told by former FedEx employee Gary Rullo, who was not fired
from FedEx, but instead he resigned after he finished working
undercover in investigations with government agents of the Office
of Special Investigations (OSI) of the Air Force in which they uncovered
nationwide FRAUD by FEDEX of every CSS military shipment which they investigated
. Must Read info!
Stupid FedEx quote: "Through internal
analysis, FedEx discovered that providing "on-call" services, that is picking
up customers' packages from them, was significantly more costly than servicing
customers who dropped off their own packages." Duh!
From the article
"FedEx:
Proactively Changing Customer Behavior"
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and the avoidance of placing said links, ads, or other changes on our pages
as viewed by others. Failure upon your part to verify the existence of this
legal notice upon any web page shall not excuse you from any fees or
responsibility. We are not responsible for notifying you as to which pages
this legal notice pertains to; it is your responsibility to verify the existence
of, or lack of, this legal notice before you and/or your software makes any
modifications to the appearance of the web site in any manner
whatsoever.
Further, this notice will appear in the visible
text of the default (index.html) page only. In all other pages it shall be
visible by viewing the source code only, and will immediately follow the
first available line after the <body> tag.
This legal notice is effective immediately
(9/1/2001).
Reward notice: To the FIRST PERSON who notifies
us of a violation of this legal notice - you are hereby entitled to 25% of
any fees and damages collected by us from an offending entity, with such
percentage not to exceed $250,000.00. Such reward will be payable only after
we have collected said fee. All notifications shall be dated according to
the date and time received by our mail server. We are not responsible for
e-mail delayed by circumstances beyond our control. You must include a
screen-shot of the link or ad, with our web page clearly visible, as well
as the date, time, browser version, name of the offending program (if known)
and any other information you may have to aid us in the collection of said
fees. You can not collect any portion of the fees unless we collect from
the offending entity.
Disclaimer for SPAMMERS: If you send SPAM e-mail
to us at any e-mail address in the domain you used to reach this page, you
owe us $250 per e-mail you send. By sending us your unsolicited e-mail, you
are signifying agreement to pay us this fee and any associated collection
costs we may incur collecting this amount. You are responsible for verifying
the existence of this agreement before you send us your unsolicited e-mail,
not us. If you don't want to pay this fee, then don't send us your SPAM e-mail.
Note: Under local law, we may file for collection in small claims court.
You will be notified of the court date. Failure to show up for small claims
court means we win automatically. Once we win the judgment, we will file
for collection thru your local sherif's office. Unless you are a legal
corporation, then even your personal property can have a lien placed against
it. Is spamming us worth it?
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