I whole heartedly agree with both of you .... first of all I think that link is Amazing & that it could be reaching a much larger market in both the internet and the Airwaves so to speak. I for one broadcast link in my LIVE A/V chat forum. I would like to invite you all to come check it out ... this is the wave of the future ...REAL time A/V forum discussions I have been running this site for over 2 yrs ....it's stable and seems to work extremely well for communicating ones ideas. Far greater than text chat or Text message boards like this.... I would be glad to set up a room and help admin it for LinkTV if they would like to try it.

Please come check out my site & come into the A/V chat and talk with me on cam if you wish ... you can at least hear and see me and others who can help you or are just glad to have an inteligent conversation. www.mehemp.tv the login box on the left side of the home page, type in a name & click login you may need to temporarily allow a pop-up for the flash page to load... but that's all then turn it back on.

I am a non-denominational minister in Idaho. I run an underground compassion club here (A.C.C.C.), because we do not have even state level laws, to protect I and My patients from Arrest and Prosecution ..not to mention Persecution. I work with Terminally Ill patients and people suffering long term debilitating conditions ie:HIV/AIDS,Cancer,MS,Epilepsy,ALS...etc...
I am the coordinator for the Worldwide March for Cannabis Liberation, in Boise, Idaho and have been for the past few years. I'm the contact here in Idaho for Cures-Not-Wars.org / the WWMM, GMM , and other civil rights organizations.

I also started this organization called MEHEMP™© {Musicians & Entertainers Helping End Marijuana Prohibition},(www.mehemp.tv) with 'Live' Forums & Support chat room... I started this organization NOT realizing that Tod McCormick had already started AHEMP a couple of years earlier. When I found out about what happened to Tod McCormick and his friend & fellow activist/MedPatient Peter McWilliams..., and that his org. AHEMP, was in Limbo (static) I decided to go ahead with MEHEMP ...to carry on his vision, as well as my own, of using the power of the microphone & ARTISTS to change the Archaic Drug Policies of our Government. By showing people that ALOT of, not only good things ...but GREAT things have come from using (DRUGS) aka: Mind altering, Consciousness enhancing , substances.

I made a decision ,after losing several friends and family to terminal illnesses . I pledged that I Would do everything I could to change Society's view on Hemp, and Marijuana and the Cannabis plant in general ..and the War on Drugs as a whole. I'm tired of seeing my friends and band members treated like violent Criminals, for possessing a plant or much less ,a flower off a plant, or for ingesting said flowers, be it Smoking ,Vaporizing, or cooking & eating it. I lost my favorite sister to Hard Drugs.... a life long addiction to them ... they killed her, though she had finally cleaned up. She died from a bleeding ulcer that had perferated and she bleed to death in her sleep. She was clean for almost a year. So I don't advocate drug use for anyone. But to keep comparing Marijuana with Harder drugs is literally like comparing water & fire, it just is not realistic.

So In ending I thank you once again for listening to my ramblings , I let my emotions get the best of me sometimes. But it's for a worthy cause, Wouldn't you agree?. So Have a good day ... and PEACE Forever....

P.S. Remember we don't need to Over Throw the Government. We need to Over Grow the Government. PEACEFUL protests, & peaceful resistance along with a bit of peaceful civil disobedience, Can & Will make the changes we want.
If everyone who smoked would grow a couple of plants for their own use ....their would be no attachment to Criminal or Terrorist elements, because no one would be able to make any money off of it. At All... End of story

Hi there, jazzman

I shill for Link all over the site I frequent because it is an invaluable resource. And it would be so good to see Link reach out to those of us who have retreated from the corporate media to the less mediated on line news sources -- because we are their audience, imho.

It may be true that some on line enclaves are satified to stay the 101 Keyboard Brigrade. The activists I'm lucky to work with aren't satisfied to simply blow off steam there. We use it to organize, to raise funds, to get the word out.

peace and indictments

Hey Sunset,

I agree. I happen to see the same show and I think he was talking about activitism in the 60's and that we need that kind of public activitism as in the 60's to help bring about change.

I am a webmaster and I definitely think that linktv could really reach more people over the internet than just by tv. The internet in some ways is a better tool to generate money and awareness than the tv channel they are on.

In my opinion, their marketing campagin is old school. I believe people are starving for the truth like myself, but just aren't aware of linktv. In fact I would not have known about linktv if I wasn't so bored one night and decided to flip through the many channels where it is tucked away amoung the religious channels.

In my oponion, linktv could be making 100's of millions of dollars a year if they used the internet to its full potential. And it is actually very easy to do this.

Hey

Last night I heard Peter say, "The internet is not a community." I don't remember which of the excellent documentaries I was watching -- I normally have LinkTv on all weekend except for brief ventures into BookTv.

And, he was making the point, I think, that taking soup to a neighbor trumps arguing with an anonymous stranger via a keyboard. I agree with that.

But, the net can enable that bowl of soup. One weekend when I discovered my neighbors had nothing to eat, I turned to my on line community for tips and suggestions and managed, with that help, to connect my neighbors with resources both in this neighborhood and in this City.

Another time, an election reform activist needed urgent cancer surgery and he had no insurance. Our on line community raised $50,000 dollars in eleven days for him.

And yet another time, when Helen Thomas was being shunned by the Bush administration, my on line community send her dozens of roses, we filled a room with them, to let her know we appreciated her work.

The internet can be a vigorous engine of community for those of us who are hellbent on creating it, on fostering it and promoting it.