An inappropriate invitation

Today I found in my webmail inbox the following delightful invitation:

For Immediate Release Contact: Adam Bitely

November 24th, 2008 Phone: (202) 689-9266

Dear Fellow Blogger,

It is my distinct pleasure, as the president of Americans for Limited Government, to invite you today to become a key member of the exciting new conservative “bloggers central,” NetRightNation.com.

At ALG, we recognize the critical role you as a blogger play in gathering, assimilating, and disseminating news and commentary. And I, personally, am deeply grateful to you for taking the lead in fighting some of the most important battles our country has faced over the past decade, and more.

That's why I am so pleased to announce that NetRightNation.com is providing bloggers like you, the mainstream media, politicians, and other opinion leaders free, instant access to nearly 60,000 conservative blogs nationwide. And counting.

As a complete service bureau, NRN provides you a wide new array of blogger opportunities. As a featured blogger on NRN, you will be able to post your own blogs and interface with other like-minded bloggers nationwide. You will soon be able to “claim” your blog and customize your blog profile.

Information on NRN – blogs, as well as Twitter feeds -- will be divided by state, as well as by issue, to make it easy for you and others to access. NRN will also include a sophisticated search engine function and will soon have the capability for you to subscribe to customized email blog feeds on your topics of choice. Stay tuned, for these features will soon be online!

And all of that is just the beginning. In fact, I have asked ALG's Director of New Media, Adam Bitely, to follow up on this note with a letter of his own providing you the exciting details on how NRN can help you grow your own blog.

Above all, we want to make sure NRN is all that you, an important member of the conservative blogosphere, want it to be. So, as you visit NetRightNation.com, I urge you to please give us your input on how to make it the valuable asset we are committed to providing, at absolutely no charge.

Thank you for all that you are doing. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Bill Wilson

President, Americans for Limited Government

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Americans for Limited Government is a non- partisan, nationwide network committed to advancing free market reforms,private property rights and core American liberties. For more information on ALG please call us at 703-383-0880 or visit our website at www.GetLiberty.org.

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In a spirit of openness and extreme snark, I wrote back the following:

Dear Adam Bitely,

While I am of course very gratified that you have chosen to invite me to join your network, there are two salient details about my blog, and myself, that you should first appreciate before I make my response.

1/. I am not, in fact, an American. I am not a North American, and I'm not a citizen of the USA. I have, in fact, no connection with any of the Americas, nor any of the territories controlled by the USA. I am, in fact, an ethnic Yorkshireman from the United Kingdom of Great Britain. While some may argue that Britain is an island controlled by the USA, I cling firmly to the belief that we do have our own sovereignty!

2/. I am not a right-wing blogger. In fact, I am Communist and I use my blog to (among other things) advocate the overthrow of the Capitalist hegemony and replace it with a Libertarian-Marxist or Anarcho-Syndicalist workers' collective modelled somewhat on the Paris Commune of the 19th Century.

Given these facts, you may wish to reconsider your invitation.

Yours sincerely,

SnowdropExplodes