Boycott Clearwire

Sat Dec 23 19:08:55 PST 2006

McCaw and many other corporate leaders have their heads up between their sweet cheeks in getting carried away and grossly, dangerously miscalculating on Bushites cadre of pre-cold war Neanderthals and mis-construed post cold war conservative think tank hacks.  This will make a good study in the history books and strategic analysis journals for years to come... hopefully McCaw and others aren't so removed from reality and full of themselves to keep open minds.

This is a tough era for U.S. corporations and mega-moguls: the pre-eminent power of the U.S. is being diluted by the very thing that is keeping our economy going: growth over seas and the corresponding ability to absorb the hundreds of billions of the bongo bucks our congress so willingly mints.  The knee-jerk Bushite Iraq testosterone war an irrational, blind faith attempt to deny reality and set the clock back.  

But McCaw's ClearWire is doing the one thing U.S. corporations can do: expand internationally as well as domestically so that they participate in the shift to a flat world.  Thy can regret the facts but now that they have tied our own hands in the inevitable unleashing of conflict in Iraq (it is amazing that they could not see events coming.. the same corporate-political brain-rot bullshit, dead-head thinking that led us to the events of 9/11).

As for the service: that is a service... if it is a good deal for you, buy it. Other competition will be along (Sprint-Nextel) and 3GPP/3GPP2 will improve to provide marginal WBB competition (until it gets saturated).  

Juvenile rant to ask people to 'boycott Craig McCaw' - he could give a rats ass about this lame attempt because you do not have the public awareness bandwidth.

Robert Syputa

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Strock 
  To: 'SeattleWireless Talk List' 
  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:24 PM
  Subject: RE: Boycott Clearwire

  Oh boy.  Causing strife for employees of a company whose founder you don't like is a GREAT way to get back at a president you don't care for.  Yep, I see the logic there.  Thanks for sharing.

  Mike Strock

  mike at myhomeoffice.org

  From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net [mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Todd Boyle
  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:17 PM
  To: talk at seattlewireless.net
  Subject: Boycott Clearwire

  We are receiving offers from Clearwire wireless broadband, to subscribe to their Internet service.  Now is an opportunity to strike back at Bush and his crooked bunch of corporate tycoons. 

  Craig McCaw lives in a 12,200-square-foot house once owned by musician Kenny G in Hunts Point, on the shore of Lake Washington, where neighbors include the Gateses. The McCaws hosted President George W. Bush for a re-election fund-raiser. Over the years, McCaw has owned a yacht called Cellular One, a Gulfstream IV jet, a Falcon 50 jet and a Beaver seaplane....  ---BLOOMBERG http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&sid=aNtp2bS8WFmo

  Since 2003, three of the president's four fund-raising trips to Washington have taken him to Medina, where he has collected $4.5 million for the Republicans. A Craig McCaw-hosted event raised $1.7 million of that. The grateful president in turn last year appointed Craig McCaw's second wife, Susan, a venture capitalist, as U.S. ambassador to Austria. ---SEATTLE WEEKLY http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0633/playhouse.php 

  http://www.google.com/search?q=clearwire+mccaw+bush+hunts+point 

  Here is what it looked like in 2004 when Bush came to Hunt's Point. Many of you stood with me, including OKelly, Gary, Jack and Jack, and many others.   http://www.epjc.net/op/StopBush.htm

  Your boycott-and-shunning campaign should include all dealings with Clearwire's corporate office, 5808 Lake Washington Blvd NE Suite #300, Kirkland, WA 98033 including all Clearwire employees, and sales channels. 
  http://www.google.com/search?q=clearwire+kirkland&num=30

  Clearwire is an evil company.  McCaw supports the Republican Party in order to gain business advantage, regulatory favors, provisions and earmarks in the Congress--- and ultimately to capture millions of users defecting from the previous bunch of evil criminals, Qwest, Verizon and Comcast, in search of an honest Internet provider. 

  DON'T BE FOOLED -- warn all your friends, this is not a good company to switch your Internet service to.   As long as McCaw is involved, regard this as a completely as equivalent to Bush and Cheney, on their ethics and style of doing business.  Consider this like ENRON, for example.   

  An internet provider has many, many ethical choices involving your privacy, your quality of service, and your freedom and liberty.  Would you trust Bush to provide net neutrality?   Would you trust Bush and Cheney not to delay your email, or block progressive bloggers, or organizing tools like Riseup, during elections or invasions?   Well then, you shouldn't trust Clearwire.  

  Let's show them the power of progressives and liberals in the marketplace. 

  Todd Boyle
  Kirkland

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