Virginia consumers and small businesses have waited long enough for the benefits of choice, lower prices, and better services. Separating Verizon's operations makes perfect sense. While leveling the playing field for new competitors, it will also, hopefully, protect consumers who elect to switch their local phone service to a new carrier from Verizon's anti-consumer tactics. Verizon still controls 96 percent of all local telephone lines in Virginia. It's time the SCC initiated action to end Verizon's stranglehold on local phone service.
Structural separation is the answer.
I realize there are many who believe the government has the right to take life. The act was the result of excesses by the federal government in the handling of the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge. According to what we know through the media, no one in the government was ever so much as reprimanded. As a nation, we seem to tolerate those excesses that should be criticized. McVeigh's death, it is hoped, will put some closure to a most tragic event.