Question of the day (May 31, 2006):

Alvin Reed and others within his department at Worldcom/MCI, now Verizon, were told repeatedly for many years under many different circumstances that much of the software Alvin Reed and others were required to load and use as a condition of employment was stolen. Alvin Reed and others knew with absolute certainty that part of the twenty one percent stolen intellectual property in corporate America was coming from this department. Everyone in the department knew that buying one copy then requiring everyone in the department to load and use it as a condition of employment was very commonplace in this company and everyone was afraid to object. Alvin Reed did start objecting after the Bernie Ebbers deal because employees were inundated to start using ethical business practices.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed with Alvin Reed the morning of May 30, 2007 that employees, as citizens of the United States of America, had the right to stop committing these crimes.

Will Robert Lane as the CEO of Deere and Company and a member of the Verizon Audit Committee agree with the FBI, in both words and actions, by abiding by section 301 of the Sarbanes Oxley act?