RE: [Nolug] IMPORTANT: State radio and TV board wants to license computer techs

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Tom Stirewalt - Computer Guru
  Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:12 AM
  To: nolug@joeykelly.net
  Subject: Re: [Nolug] IMPORTANT: State radio and TV board wants to license
computer techs

    This is not going to go away!

    To me, this is a money grab by the State, grasping at straws for income.

     Unfortunately, the State agency's checkbook is bigger than the average
computer consultant's shop and an easy economic decision is to pay the
$55.00 and go on about your business.

     I think actual letters to representatives with cc to the state board
will apply some pressure.

     Personally, I don't like any government certifications or regulations
or licensing at all, for anything, but I know I am spitting into the wind.
However, let's stop encroachment NOW.

     Maybe we should all dig into our pockets and send a donation to the guy
who is fighting this as a deferment to legal fees, or maybe try to join into
the suit as Amicus Curiae hiring and attorney for that (not me).

     I'm not so sure a 'class action' is the way to go. Perhaps a
Restraining Order or a Declaratory Judgment. The cheapest is to go the
political route and bug the State Legislature to rein in this Administrative
Agency. But in order to be effective, political pressure must be immense,
focused, and unrelenting.

     Write your objections to this State Board's actions, in your own words.
I do not want to attempt to tell anyone what to write because if a 'standard
text' starts showing up in the legislature's hands it becomes less
'weighty', it just looks like a standard letter writing campaign instead of
something that hit a grass-roots nerve.

    I urge everyone to actually contact their State Representative and
State Senator IN WRITING (snail mail!) [believe it or not, paper has more
impact than electrons!] .

  AND send a copy to:
          Mr Stanley Brohn, Secretary
          Radio and Television Technicians Board
          6554 Florida Ave. - Suite 109
          Baton Rouge, LA 70806
                  (225) 231-4710

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  Tom 07 Aug 2004

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