Petition For Boot Camp Reparations

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: ZNFYRH To hopefully revitalize the thread, what would be some more effective ways to communicate with politicians in a way that gets more than just a carbon-copy response?

Write to the Ombudsman instead of the Editor.

[dilligras]

Quote by: ZNFYRH Filtering out the unnecessary segments of your post leaves me with the following question unanswered. If you weren't expecting anything to be done about it, why did you even bother?

The answer to that question may be found in a careful reading of posts #1, 14, and 99..............and 44 and 57 (not really, I just like those last two )

The most direct way to make my point is to say that you effectively wasted the time of someone in that politician's office who could have spent it on an issue that someone cared about.

Perhaps you are confused.

Just because I don't expect a busy man to sit down and pen a response to every emotional appeal he recieves, does not mean that I, "don't expect anything to be done about it."

So it appears that by penning your letters in a way that requires such a waste of time on the part of their recipients, and then turning around and chastising me for not writing only when I can be assured of similarly wasting their time, while simultaneously accusing me of wasting your time, you have attained the rare and legendary feat of logical prestidigitation known as triple irony..........bravo!!

How would one annotate that mathematically, I wonder?

You gave the impression in your letter that you wanted a wrong to be righted. If that wasn't the case, why waste your, their, and our time?

"Now see, there you go again!"....[/Ronnie Reagan]


As you were.

[ZNFYRH]

dilligras,

Maybe you have me confused with another person. Regardless, you really didn't answer my question about what you expected as a conclusion of writing your letter.

[dilligras]

Quote by: ZNFYRH dilligras, Maybe you have me confused with another person.

Maybe.........aren't you the guy who plays the pan flute?

No, wait.......that's Zamfir...

Regardless, you really didn't answer my question about what you expected as a conclusion of writing your letter.

Au contraire, mon ami.......I did answer it, just not the way you wanted, perhaps.

Suffice it to say I did not expect my letter to recieve any more attention than the thousands of others the good Senators undoubtedly recieve weekly, but rather that it be counted as one more on the pile weighing in on the side of the troops and their mission.

That is effect enough to justify the writing, no matter how much others view my time as wasted.


As you were.

[ZNFYRH]

dilligras,

That's as good as a desired effect as any; to add your voice to the multitude. In this case, you'll just have to hope there is a multitude to which your voice will be added.

[dilligras]

Yea, though my voice be chorused only by those of crickets, shall I not raise it in support of those who take my fight to the enemy?


Carry on.

[ZNFYRH]

Raise on. That's the beauty of America... no one will be knocking on your door for raising it.