Thu 22 Mar 2007
| The letter below was sent to Progressive Caucus Members |
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The Honorable Lloyd Doggett
Dear Representative Doggett:
Thank you so much for the consideration you have been giving the Iraq War supplemental funding bill before you. I just wanted to reiterate the position of TrueMajority.org, its founder, Ben Cohen, and the majority opinion of its 600,000 members. TrueMajority.org continues to advocate for no more money to support any aspect of the war that is not withdrawal. Given a level playing field, 40% of our members would have liked to see the Lee legislation pass. Even with that option available, 35% of our members said no more money, period. With that in mind, our members have advocated that you vote no on the Supplemental spending bill since last week.
We understand that you are getting pressure from constituents across the spectrum and I am sure that you carefully listen to them all. We would like to remind you that we consider a vote against the supplemental as a vote of conscience that says “no” to war and no one should be dissuaded from that position. Regardless of the outcome of this vote, we will continue to work with everyone striving to end the war, but are dismayed by the idea that people of principle are having their issues and positions threatened. We will not tolerate any retribution on Members of Congress who vote their conscience.
We look forward to working with you in the future to end this war and we know you are carefully considering this hard decision. Thank you for carrying such heavy weight for the American people.
Sincerely,
Matt Holland
TrueMajority Executive Director
Darcy Scott Martin
Washington Director
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March 30th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I don’t see that we, as a nation, have this luxury of time. I am over being stunned by human behavior. The utter selfishness of people is simply what is. Caught up in their little causes. The trees, the kittens, their party and hundreds of other special interest affiliations. Fragmented combatants trying to get to the front of the line. The chaos of the concerned enlightened.
At present our species is endangered. Your nation is leading the fight to destroy your freedom to concern yourself with causes. One of the ways this takes place, right under your noses, is to make sure you are consumed with your particular fragment. It keeps you from seeing the whole picture. The question you should be asking me is why would anyone, assuming it’s true, want to destroy the nation and endanger the species. That would take a long time and at some level you know the answer. Think of what your idea of success and happiness is, does it take into consideration the symbiotic success and happiness of the species? For example saving trees, do you just want people to stop killing forests? Would it saner and best for the welfare and happiness of the species to set up a plan to raise crops that could be made into an organic plastic-like material that could be cast molded into affordable structures thereby making wood buildings obsolete? I ask the question why would anyone want to bang their head up against an immovable object? Is it not that the hope of the eventual movement of that object holds the idea of happiness? The object in it’s majority doesn’t care about your trees. The majority of the object is dedicated to the desires of it’s sponsors, not yours. So on a smaller scale why would anyone want to kill the ecosystem that sustains the life on our planet? These are the questions that you need to be concerned with if you enjoy having the freedoms you think of as your rights.
If congress was serving the people it would impeach the executive branch immediately, then spend that money on a UN peace keeping force and reparation. They don’t because there sponsors don’t want them to. If we want to keep our freedoms and see the nation survive we need to make sure that no special interest is able to hire a lawmaker. This happens in elections when there is no one you have chosen in the race. The way it is now you think you have a choice, it’s like if Ben&Jerry was the only people making ice cream and they only offered two flavors.
The solution to this problem is to have no citizen vote for any candidate running with special interest money. The main concern of every citizen needs to change from there particular special interest to the interest of the nation. The clean money election act is poised in the congressional branch. It will enable us to have a country again. If you think you have one now you’re not paying attention. That self absorbed perception is what has allowed the country to come to this teetering brink.