'RADICAL' RADIO SHOWS FORCED FROM THE NET

Issue: Information Freedom

Even before Congress' new anti-terrorism bill has been signed into law,

someone apparently used it to get three Internet radio shows yanked off the

Net. Targeted were IRA Radio, Al Lewis Live and Our Americas, Net radio

shows carried by Cosmic Entertainment. IRA Radio broadcasts Irish news and

politics, including interviews with alleged terrorists. Al Lewis Live was

hosted by iconoclastic actor/activist Lewis, better known as Grandpa on the

1960s TV show The Munsters. Our Americas was a Spanish-language show about

rebels in Latin America. The shows were forced offline last month after

someone identifying himself as a federal agent reportedly made a telephone

call to Cosmic's Internet service provider, Hypervine, saying that the

company's assets could be seized for containing pro-terrorist materials,

according to Travis Towle, founder and CEO of Cosmic Entertainment. Towle

doubts that the caller was really a federal agent, but the fear of having

assets seized was convincing enough.

[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Janet Kornblum]

(http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011016/3541043s.htm)

This is going to sound trite, but they can't do that to

Grandpa Munster! Read his bio!

Al Lewis Bio. It neglects to mention that Al Lewis was also

a Green Party candidate for Senate in 2000, running on a

radical platform. It neglects to mention that he's also

a regular on the Howard Stern Show. And finally, Al Lewis Live is a show on WBAI! He's crass, and crude,

and a genius, and he doesn't deserve to be

victimized by small-minded web hosting companies.

I could not find the server that hosts allewislive.com,

but did find that the person who registered it is

 
  
 Towle, Travis E  (TET6)  travis.towle@COSMICRADIO.COM 
  
 The Cosmic Entertainment Company 
  
 P.O. Box 887 
  
 Topeka, KS 66601 
  
 785-286-0911 (FAX) 785-286-0911 
  
 

This is ALSO the SAME PERSON who registered iraradio.com!

Our Americas is, like Al Lewis Live, is a WBAI program.