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Secondly, AFFT has never been a top down organization. The FairTax PROPOSAL is supported by volunteers around the country. Most of them donate time to educate others, not money. That isn't going to go away regardless how the national organization's funding efforts go. The national strategy did bring the proposal more in view of the public eye, which helps all volunteers by providing additional opportunities to educate more Americans.

As a longtime VOLUNTEER, I can tell you that interest has never been higher at the grass roots. Thank you for firing up more volunteers.
-- Bill Rollyson

If there is some connection between Gov. Mike Huckabee and the Church of Scientology, as your Nov. 29 Prowler column suggests, I'm sorry to hear it.

The Church of Scientology is not just some slightly loopy, new age religion populated by smiling celebrities. It is a mind-controlling cult run on a totalitarian model which daily exploits the vulnerable and the unwary.

Families are destroyed by Scientology's "disconnection" policy. Members of its elite "Sea Organization" (SO) who sign billion-year contracts to serve the "church" are coerced to have abortions when they become pregnant; child rearing would interfere with their duties. Staff at the "missions" work extremely long hours, seven days a week for sub-poverty wages. SO members who demonstrate disloyalty or fail to meet productivity quotas are incarcerated in the Rehabilitation Project Force -- Scientology's own forced-labor camps, where inmates subsist on an inadequate diet, undergo intensive "re-education" including interrogations while hooked up to a lie detector, are subjected to sleep deprivation, perform hard manual labor, and are generally treated in a dehumanizing manner; some people are held in these camps for years.

How do I know all this? I used to be a Scientologist and I can provide documentation for what I've said. Gov. Huckabee would do well to steer clear of the Church of Scientology.
-- Mary Ann Bosnos
Fountain Hills, Arizona

LOW SPEED CONNECTIONS
Re: Tom Bethell's A Slow-Motion Revolution:

Our government in its wisdom broke up AT&T and now is letting it get back together. I am sorry to say I still have a very slow DIALUP using ATT phone lines that they say are too expensive to upgrade so DSL can be put in, but they still have the money to go buy more of the baby bells instead of taking care of customers they already have. In fact ATT just raised my dialup service cost to more than DSL, go figure. Also there is not a cable company in my area that has high speed internet and on SS sure can't afford the monthly cost of a broadband card. So in this high tech country there are lots of people caught in a time warp.
-- Elaine Kyle

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