Calling all Longhorns________________

Stop the Car Spychip Bill!

All right, you intrepid, privacy-loving Texans -- it's time once again to show the rest of the country what you're made of. You're in the spotlight as the test case for the government to see if it can get away with spychipping cars!

A bill in the Texas House of Representatives would require an embedded RFID tag to be placed on your windshield, within your mandatory inspection sticker. The sticker could be read from over 30 feet away by government reader devices that can function like gestapo-style invisible checkpoints -- ID'ing all Texas vehicles as they pass. Along with requiring this device in your cars, the government could hide reader devices in the roads to monitor all cars entering a given neighborhood, driving into a given parking lot, or even just heading down the open road. [Just imagine, Laura Bush would just need to call the police to know where her husband is!... ;-)]

Your ability to travel anonymously is at stake, but you can win this one if you fight it!

Source: My San Antonio, 4/8/05 http://www.mysanantonio.com/...

Contact your state Rep and tell them you'll be remembering how they vote on this one when election time rolls around again. Better yet, stop by their office and tell them in person. But whatever you do, don't sit idly by and let this happen!

Find your Texas state representative here: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/

My source: CASPIAN Newsletter, 4/27/05

PS: I just got the following news: "Thanks, Christian. It worked! Texas pulled the provision! More in the next newsletter." Of course, I have no merit with this, I had posted the appeal too late anyway. But still, nice to hear. And thanks to those others who apparently had become very active!