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To: Mama Bear who wrote (4422)	11/10/2000 1:52:12 AM
From: miraje	Respond to of 13056

RE: Warm fuzzy feelings, Floridians and gov't protection... (LOL) From Liberty Magazine, December 2000 issue: Recently the Attorney General of Florida filed suit against the Psychic Readers Network because they were not using "real" psychics. Apparently homeless women were recruited to read off of scripts and keep customers on the phone as long as possible. I fear that my friend over at 1-900-GIRL might not be exactly as she represented herself either. I'm shocked. Most injured by the suit will once again be the people on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. I cannot fathom that in the year 2000, people have to be protected from "psychics". The standard proof is that anyone who can predict the future has no need to talk on the phone for $4.99 per minute. "Okay, I'm getting a reading here, you're single, female, overweight, live in a trailer, never graduated from high school, and don't know if your loser boyfriend really loves you...." "Wow, you must be a psychic!" "No, I've just been working here long enough to see the pattern." The Attorney Generals Office reached a settlement with Access Resource Services of Fort Lauderdale, which operates the former Psychic Readers Network, allowing people to work as telephone psychics so long as they sign a "vow of clairvoyance". This is the second in a series from the Florida Attorney General. The first, the famous Publishers' Clearinghouse suit, protected people stupid enough to believe they were winners, and just had to order a couple of magazines to collect $10,000,000. -Tim Slagle