From: Larry Van Horn
Subject: Cell Privacy Hearings
Date: Friday, February 07, 1997 1:56PM
First let me say that how much I know Bob deeply appreciates all the
warm letters, email, and faxes we have received in the last two days. As
some of you know (who saw the hearings), Bob was basically shut off from
commenting to the committee on any and all their allegations. Since the
committee choose that as their weapon of choice, we have now choosen
ours. You can find Bob's answers that he would have given to the
committee had they given him a chance on our web site at
http://www.grove.net.  We are also distributing it nationally to our
friends in the media via fax and email as we speak.
I would like to share with you a letter I just faxed to my Congressman
(at their request) here in western North Carolina, the honorable Charles
Taylor. It might clear up any remaining doubt as to what happened in the
Rayburn office building on Feb 5.
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From: Larry Van Horn,  Brasstown, NC 28902
To:  Congressman Charles Taylor
Dear Congressman Taylor,
     I am going to take a second of your time to point out how appalled
I am at the conduct of our elected officials in the Rayburn House Office
Building, Room 2123 on Wednesday morning February 5, 1997. During Billy
Tauzin's hearing on cellular privacy, a registered voter in your
district was subjected to the most appalling treatment before Congress I
have ever seen on C-SPAN television.
     Mr. Bob Grove, the President and founder of Grove Enterprises here
in Brasstown was invited to testify before that subcommittee by Rep
Tauzin. Words can not begin to express the anger I have over the
treatment of Mr Grove, his company and the 20 million owners of scanner
radios in this country.
     Members of this committee slandered Mr. Grove, his company, and
scanner hobbists as a whole causing unfavorable publicity in the
national media the very next morning. Every attempt by Mr Grove to air
his side of the story was thwarted by Congressman on this committee.
Since the committee saw fit not to let Mr Grove testify and share  his
side of the story, he has chosen to do so in the following press release
that is going out nationally as you read this. In addition, it is on the
Grove web site for the 31,000 visitors to this site daily to read. I am
sure we will let our 100,000 readers of Monitoring Times and Satellite
Times magazines have a peek at this also in upcoming issues.
     The treatment Mr. Grove received was outrageous. He traveled to
Washington at the invitation of this committee (at his own expense I
might add) with the understanding that he might be able to use his years
of expertise in communications to carefully craft new laws to protect
the privacy of individuals. Instead, he walks into a witch hunt by
specialized interest and the Congressman that were paid by them.
     I will have more to say on this soon in a formal letter I am
sending to your office and the national media. In the meantime, I hope
that Mr. Grove's press release clears some of the dirty air left in
Washington DC on February 5 about this outstanding citizen here in our
western North Carolina community. These are the words he would have
said, if the rude and publicity hungary Congressmen on the House
Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer
Protection had allowed him to speak.
     Trust me Mr Taylor, this is not the last you or that committee will
hear on this subject. Citizens trying to help their elected officials
govern properly should not be subjected to this type of treatment by
their elected officials. Bottom line: That was truly the finest
Congressional hearing that the cellular industry money could buy.
Warm Regards,
Larry Van Horn
Managing Editor
Satellite Times magazine
P.O. Box 98
Brasstown, NC 28902
Telephone: 704-837-9200, steditor@grove.net
I hope you have taken a stab at communicating with your Congressman. I
know I have mine's attention at this very moment.
73 to all de Larry
Larry Van Horn
Assistant Editor/Utility World columnist
Monitoring Times
Milcom Newsgroup List Mom
Ute World/Milcom Home Page: http://www.grove.net/~larry/uteworld.html
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