What personal freedom is next?

[ShadowHM]

Bah writing your elected officials is a waste of time.

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So you are recommending apathy??? For those of us who lack the convenience of a few extra thousand or hundred thousand dollars? :blink:

This piece of advice sounds just as useful as your first suggestion - all going to the White House lawn for a smoke-in. <_<

Letters can and do make a difference. Politicians have a rule-of-thumb they apply to 'snail-mail' letters. For every individual one they receive, they assume that there are multiples of that opinion in their constituency. They pay less attention to signatures on form letters than they do to individual letters. Further, they like to know that there is sufficient support in their constituency for any changes they might make before they act. Politicians, much as they would love to call themselves visionary leaders, tend to follow the crowd, not lead it.