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<b>From: </b>Jim Azzola <<a href="http://jazzola1@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jazzola1@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Jim Azzola <<a href="http://jazzola1@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jazzola1@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:52:34 -0700 (PDT)<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Chris Dodd wants credit card companies to report what you buy to the federal government<br>
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This is more info related to a recent Email I sent. Legislation pending allows the Fed access to all your transaction info on Ebay, credit cards, etc. This is outrageous and must be stopped! Contact your congresscritters! Jim<br>
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</span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Meetup members,</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In the last email, I referenced the urgency of the times. Last week, with the help of Democrats and Republicans, the Congress voted for a bad reauthorization of FISA</span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> courts. Now, they are seeking to expand the American Surveillance Society by requiring all credit card purchases to be reported to the Federal government. I have contacted the Campaign For Liberty about the necessity to get vocal on issues like this right now, rather than waiting till September. In the meantime, it is strictly up to us to fight this legislation. I also, expect other activists groups, like FreedomWorks. Featured in the article below, to start generating npoise as well.</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br>
</font></span><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Sincerely, Dean Taffel</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font color="#ff950e"><font size="5"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b><i>They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. --</i></b></span></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Benjamin Franklin, 1755</span></i></b></font></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <br>
</font></span><font size="4"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a></span></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font><font color="#800000"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b>ON CAPITOL HILL<br>
</b></font></font></span><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Congress wants to know your eBay</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <<a href="http://www.ebay.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/</a>> buying habits<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'Honey pot of private data would include Social Security numbers'</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Posted: June 20, 2008<br>
7:53 pm Eastern<br>
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© 2008 WorldNetDaily </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></span><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A freedom-focused grassroots organization has issued a nationwide alert about a plan in Congress that <b><u>would require </u></b><u>credit card companies</u></span></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">, eBay, Amazon, Google</span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/</a>> and other companies </span><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b><u>to report what you buy to the federal government.</u></b></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font color="#0000ff"><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><u>FreedomWorks</u></span></font></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/" target="_blank">http://www.freedomworks.org/</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> chairman Dick Armey</span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> said the privacy implications are "breathtaking."</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></span><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week," he said. "Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction</span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal <<a href="http://www.paypal.com/" target="_blank">http://www.paypal.com/</a>> , Amazon and Google Checkout," he said.</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></span><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">FreedomWorks said the provision is "hidden deep in Sen. Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation." It was added by the bill's managers without debate and calls for a tracking and reporting system "on nearly every electronic transaction."</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"Privacy groups like the Center for Democracy and <font color="#0000ff"><u>Technology</u></font></span></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> and small business organizations like the NFIB sharply criticized this idea when it first appeared earlier this year," the FreedomWorks statement said.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"What is the federal government's purpose with this kind of detailed data? How will this database be secured, and who will have access? Many small proprietors use their Social Security number as their tax ID. How will their privacy be protected? What compliance costs will this impose on businesses? Why is Sen. Chris Dodd putting this provision in a housing bailout bill? The bill also includes the creation of a new national fingerprint registry for mortgage brokers."</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The bill's summary, FreedomWorks said, states:</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Payment Card and Third Party Network Information Reporting. The proposal requires information reporting on payment card and third party network transactions. Payment <font color="#0000ff"><u>settlement</u></font></span></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> entities, including merchant acquiring banks and third party settlement organizations, or third party payment facilitators acting on their behalf, will be required to report the annual gross amount of reportable transactions to the IRS and to the participating payee. Reportable transactions include any payment card transaction and any third party <font color="#0000ff"><u>network</u></font></span></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> transaction. Participating payees include persons who accept a payment card as payment and third party networks who accept payment from a third party settlement organization in settlement of transactions.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"At a time when concerns about both identity theft</span></font></font><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and government spying are paramount, Congress wants to create a new honey pot of private data that includes Social Security numbers. This bill reduces privacy across America's payment processing systems and treats every American small business or eBay power seller like a criminal on parole by requiring an unprecedented level of reporting to the federal government. This outrageous idea is another reason to delay the housing bailout legislation so that Senators and the public at large have time to examine its full implications," FreedomWorks said.</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </font></span><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">FreedomWorks is chaired by Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader, and pursues lower <font color="#0000ff"><u>taxes</u></font></span></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640" target="_blank">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67640</a>> </span></font></font></u><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">, less government and more freedom by coordinating the work of thousands of grassroots volunteers.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The activist organization is urging Americans to contact their congressmen and object to the plan.</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Related offers:</b></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font color="#0000ff"><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><u>Rediscovering Gold in the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to the Next Gold Rush</u></span></font></font></font><u><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <<a href="http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=21&ITEM_ID=1659" target="_blank">http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=21&ITEM_ID=1659</a>> </span></font></font></u><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font><font color="#0000ff"><font size="5"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><u>"Global Warming or Global Governance?" 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