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Read this and let me know what you think. Here's a quote:

Quote by: Gary North From Congress's point of view, there is a growing problem. That problem is the Internet. It allows people to communicate with each other almost free of charge. An email can be sent to a million people at little or no marginal cost. A mailing list becomes a tool of instant education and motivation. All over the wired world, politicians are finding that every government leak gets to a large audience within hours. I call this the Drudge-Lewinsky factor. Every audience has a hot button. Politicians today cannot pass any bill, short of a national emergency, in which they do not inevitably press some special-interest group's negative hot button. If people on an email list are alerted to what the politicians are planning to do to them, they will in turn send an email, phone their representatives, or even – I am not making this up – sit down, write a letter of protest, put it in an envelope, stamp the envelope, and mail it to their political representative. (Yes, such things are still done. Or so I'm told.) Worse, from the politicians' point of view, the Internet allows organizations to remind people on their mailing lists which politicians voted the wrong way. The subscribers would normally forget within six months, but not if they keep getting reminded. The Internet makes it cheap to remind them. The Internet is therefore a tool of voters to impose their will on recalcitrant politicians. So far, the politicians have been powerless to stop this. This is about to change.

I plan on writing opposition letters to both of my Senators.

- Rob