The Political Vine will emerge as a powerful voice for the people of Georgia. It is truly a child of the modern age and will have an impact throughout the reading and thinking community.

The Internet has made sharing information easy. Not all information has to be original. A reading list is useful to many people who want to find out what is happening outside the pages of the AJC.

Until the advent of the Internet, sources other than those owned and approved by the liberal establishment were few and far between. The mainstream media distorted, misled, lied, and hammered away on the currently acceptable political line, to the exclusion of all other viewpoints. From just before WWII on, the leftist line has been ascendent throughout the nation.

There were a few opposing viewpoints but such sources were not widely known. Subscriptions were costly, radio did not at the time support talk shows, and most people didn't have the initiative to seek out information other than what was provided in the local, sometimes independent, sources. Little by little, even those few independent sources dried up, being bought out by the national conglomerates. Few independent sources remained.

The Internet is now the modern way to communicate. It is readily accessible, at little or no cost, and with no monitoring from the mainstream media, politicians, and bureaucrats. I am firmly convinced the Internet is the most significant means of communication on today's media scene and it serves to give access to uncensored, deregulated information. The Internet has broken the hold on information transmission and this allows more people to find out what is happening throughout the world.

The Internet, along with a very few print publications, radio, and Fox New Channel are the chief sources of conservative-oriented information on today's media scene. I have every reason to believe the Internet has the potential to destroy the mainstream media's stranglehold on information. E-Newsletters should be used by activists; unfortunately, the few feeble attempts by the two major parties are, at best amateurish.

Although the Internet has opened a window on the world of liberal/leftist/democratic foolishness, the danger of government regulation through taxation, censorship, fairness, and so on, lurks in the background. The politicians and bureaucrats know the danger the Internet presents and have already started on their campaign to control the Internet. At all government levels, there has been an effort to tax, censor, and regulate the Internet purchases in the name of tax fairness, national security, political correctness, children, and the disabled. The policrats' message is hidden: 'Destroy the opposition in the name of the people and for the safety of the country.'

If the governments (state and local) succeed in regulating the Internet, the last good source of information will disappear.