Well, first it was because the iphone can not be unlocked, legally.

Well, now I won't be able to get an iphone for over 2 years because of the contract that I have with AT&T that prevents me from purchasing a new phone until the 2nd year of the contract.

I was truly hoping that I would be able to go and plunk my hard earned money down at the local Apple store (over 2 hours away) and add it to my current plan. Well, now I have been denied that option because I have to have a 'new' 2-year contract with AT&T to get the fantastic quoted pricing. I'm already paying over $200 per month for the gracious 'package pricing' from AT&T that includes my cell phone.

This coupled with the fact that AT&T is spending millions of dollars on lobbyists to avoid prosecution for illegally violating applicable laws by recklessly recording and distributing information from the citizens of the United States private telephone and internet communications makes me really hesitant to even want to get an iphone even if I could just go and add it to my account.

To read AT&T's press release is to read it and see the glee that the corporation is taking at finally having the tiger by the tail and not have to share the cream of the no doubt phenomenally successful iphone's effects on their bottom line. I don't want to add to that bottom line. I don't want to encourage the illegality that is the crimes of our government and the crimes of those that callously discard major component parts of the founding documents of this great country.

We are a country that is based on laws and a legal system that has respected the privacy and legal right of its citizens from being interfered with or spied upon by the government that governs this great country.

A fundamental right of the governed in this country is to be free from the continual and purposeless wholesale spying of the governing. In a time where anything that can be discovered can be used against that person by the governing, there is a huge imbalance in the treatment of the governed. I can not, in all good conscience, submit to nor support the illegality perpetrated by the Bush administration and AT&T and others.

I WILL NOT PURCHASE AN IPHONE. I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO A CORPORATION THAT WILL TREAT MY PRIVACY WITH SUCH MALICE AND CARELESSNESS.

Well, first it was because the iphone can not be unlocked, legally.

Well, now I won't be able to get an iphone for over 2 years because of the contract that I have with AT&T that prevents me from purchasing a new phone until the 2nd year of the contract.

I was truly hoping that I would be able to go and plunk my hard earned money down at the local Apple store (over 2 hours away) and add it to my current plan. Well, now I have been denied that option because I have to have a 'new' 2-year contract with AT&T to get the fantastic quoted pricing. I'm already paying over $200 per month for the gracious 'package pricing' from AT&T that includes my cell phone.

This coupled with the fact that AT&T is spending millions of dollars on lobbyists to avoid prosecution for illegally violating applicable laws by recklessly recording and distributing information from the citizens of the United States private telephone and internet communications makes me really hesitant to even want to get an iphone even if I could just go and add it to my account.

To read AT&T's press release is to read it and see the glee that the corporation is taking at finally having the tiger by the tail and not have to share the cream of the no doubt phenomenally successful iphone's effects on their bottom line. I don't want to add to that bottom line. I don't want to encourage the illegality that is the crimes of our government and the crimes of those that callously discard major component parts of the founding documents of this great country.

We are a country that is based on laws and a legal system that has respected the privacy and legal right of its citizens from being interfered with or spied upon by the government that governs this great country.

A fundamental right of the governed in this country is to be free from the continual and purposeless wholesale spying of the governing. In a time where anything that can be discovered can be used against that person by the governing, there is a huge imbalance in the treatment of the governed. I can not, in all good conscience, submit to nor support the illegality perpetrated by the Bush administration and AT&T and others.

I WILL NOT PURCHASE AN IPHONE. I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO A CORPORATION THAT WILL TREAT MY PRIVACY WITH SUCH MALICE AND CARELESSNESS.

All they have is fear.

That's how pathetic the republicans, the 'press', and our nation have gotten...

McCain says the Obama administration would be Carter's second term. Didn't Jimmy Carter get literally tossed out by the Reagan dirty tricks operation regarding Iran?

Odd that most of the perpetrators of that great con are in the current Bush administration...

I'm sad and sickened by politics and society in this country. Maybe the Fox News jackals retort 'then move to France' isn't such a bad idea but how long till the cancer eating America infects them too...

Another in a long lone line of Bush lies. They reach to Alpha Centauri and Betelgeuse, and back... (That's over 430 light years, one way!)