Monday, March 12, 2007

From the 'Add Insult 2 Injury' department...

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy what likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies, municipalities and universities, saying it would create an incentive for them to keep costs down and that it was necessary to fight the war on terror. ...

"We're going to have a lot of fights over cost reimbursement," Al Gidari, a partner at the law firm of Perkins Coie...

"I am not persuaded merely by largely speculative allegations that the financial burden on the higher-education community could total billions of dollars," said FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate...


BLAMMmmmpppp! You're both wrongo. The cost of forced wiretapping is always passed down the line to the people whose voice is taken - the voiceless consumer.