You have less than 2 hours to cast your vote to stop this deadly menace to
our sport. Please, please please petition the filmmakers now to remove all
mentions of SOLO II from their upcoming release.
Send your emails now to avril@uno.com Mention that you are following up for
Roger.
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Johnson <rjohnson@friendlynet.com>
To: Team.Net (Group) <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: "The Fast & The Furious" - bad news for autocross
> A quick note from Peter Raymond got me investigating this
> upcoming movie (to be released mid-June), and the certain
> implications for Solo II:
>
> The Fast & The Furious
>
> Take a look at the website, and the trailer. In short, this movie
> glorifies street racing, gang life, and thru something akin
> to 'product placement', Solo II. In my opinion, two of those
> items are NOT things to promote as wholesome activities,
> and we need to find out who was responsible for associating
> our sport with such a film.
>
> This time, the recruitment efforts have gone WAY too far. It
> is clear to me that using this movie to reach the type of person
> that is portrayed in the movie, as potential Solo II competitors,
> will change the face of Solo II forever, giving us the taint of
> an outlaw, gang-related sport.
>
> Will we want to continue to bring our children to events?
> Will we need to worry constantly about the security of our
> possessions?
> Will physical intimidation and violence pervade the events?
> Will we be forced to hire armed security guards to keep
> peace at events?
>
> It is terrible enough to have the Canadians and the E/P entries;
> they are enough of a bad influence. I say "no more"!
>
> Join me in fighting this menace - a petition for the Directors
> of SCCA is online at:
>
> www.lirpaloof.com
>
> Log in and sign up, for the good of the sport.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger (Ohio) Johnson
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