Recently in the news, the Bush Administration has been trying to push Congress for some new legislation to grant cell phone providers immunity for the illegal phone surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Surely, it is bad enough that the present administration, with the help of NSA (National Security Council), has used “The War of Terror” as an excuse to spy on citizens in the first place. However, the possibility of this new legislation would facilitate it to being perfectly legal for them to eavesdrop on you.

I like to think that this is of great importance to our people. One may say, “I don’t have anything to hide. I’m clearly not a terriorist. Why does it matter?” It matters because it is an infringement upon our rights, specifically our right to privacy, and our civil liberties that are awarded to us through the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

I find it very interesting that the top 2 cell phone companies participating in this deception are Verizon and AT&T (formerly Cingular). One must ask the question, “Why?”

It is difficult to fathom, as a customer of Verizon, that I am contributing to their ability to do this to people. Just recently, in going through some email, I found a message from an organization, Democrats.com, that had this topic as their subject line. Through curiousity, of course, I opened it. It was exposing the facts of the conspiracy with regard to Verizon and AT&T. Additionally, it was an advertisement from a cell provider, Credo Mobile, that prides upon not being a part of these activities. Credo is offering current customers of the “Top 2″ a free camera phone and also agreeing to pay the required early termination fee to the previous carrier.

So it seems, the only remaining questions, how does their service, cost and coverage areas compare to the networks of Verizon and AT&T?

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