July 27, 2007

Many individual write to ask what they can do when their elected officials ignore complaints and won't respond to questions, requests for information or investigations. I offer the following for your information and possible future action.

Letters to the Editor (with cc: to your elected officials), acting as a lobbyist and educting your elected officials and their staff is another effective tactic. The personal contacts you make are extremely important, and petitions, that are well written, and have real signatures not just Internet signatures are invaluable tools. Make friends, keep your credabilty by presenting your elected officials with government documents, pictures, and other data that back up your claims.

Avoid refering to words and statements that are made without documented back up materials. If someone makes a claim ask them for their backup documents or don't use the information. It is your reputation that is at stake when you approach your elected officials. Ask questions but provide the backup government documents that prove your case. Avoid using information which is just a theory or someone's belief. If you plan to make changes, educate yourself and others to make a case that would hold up in a Court of Law.

Our elected representatives are responsible for protecting public health, the health of our children, pets, wildlife and our trees. We, the people, must take a stand, rebel against their ignorance and lack of interest or fear, and eduate them. All elected officials are like us...needing education. If we treat them well, work with them, and avoid attacking them personally, all of us working for common goal gain in the long term. Remember that someone, somewhere, convinced you that there is a problem...and many of you took some real convincing. One key is to treat others like you would like to be treated...with respect. Your approach and attitude can open many doors.

Corporations have paid lobbyists to educate, bribe, and write Congressional bills to benefit themselves at public expense. We, the people, who have no lobbyists may believe that we have no influence. However, we vote and we have a public voice. And we have one important advantage...all our elected representatives have to come home and face us in order to stay in office or be elected for the first time.

Our public officials need to provide us with informed answers to our questions regarding local issues of tree death and declines and the increase in public health problems. They should be willing to listen to the public, keep open minds, hold public hearings, conduct air quality and particulate tests, and investigate the tree and health symptoms throughout the United States. And they should be investigating how persistent jet contrails exacerbate (according to NASA), global warming, change our climate, and affect natural resources. And we should demand the agriculture studies that show how persistent jet contrails influence crop production and reduce photosynthesis.

Writing, telephone calls, and making personal contacts with those elected representatives that are incumbents and their challengers, in the upcomig elections in 2007-2008, is extremely important. A national dialogue on these important issues should be demanded. Writing and E-Mailing all media outlets, and individual reporters is a top priority. Educating the editors of magazines and all newpapers should be a priority and they should be pressed to ask questions and investigate. And we should make sure that these questions are asked by the media to all candidates.

Now is the time to strike...educate, demand answers, ask questions... and keep pressing these important issues. It is time to organize locally...and each day or week take some action.

Many who contact me thank me for my efforts and then in the next sentence state that they are too busy to take any action or they feel powerless. This is not true. We all have time...it is just a matter of importance to you, your health, and the health of your children. If you don't stand and fight now then you will spend a lot of time and money fighting off the illnesses that will be the result of some of these government, military, university (with government and private funding), and private corporate programs. You can stand and fight now or you can suffer the health and crop loss consequences later. The decision is yours.

Some people want to know where they can move to avoid what is happening to our skies and our environment. I am always saddened by the question because there is no where to run...nowhere to go. It is time to stand firm and make a difference.

Then there are those that complain. They spend hours blogging their complaints or sending numerous E-Mails with their complaints. Negative E-Mails and complaining on the Internet is not a solution. It will not change anything. Your personal contact with your elected representatives at every level, educating yourself about the problems and the issues, and uplifting and helping those that are working to improve the quality of your life and resolve your complaints will bring change. Complaining is a waste of everyone's time. If you want change spend your time working for that change, find solutions, reseach information for others, demonstrate, vote: your options to make changes are tremendous. It is time to avoid attacking others, complaining, whining, and doing nothing to help those that are working for change.

Our ancestors fought, were injured, died, and were jailed while fighting to keep children out of the coal mines, better working conditions, eight hour days, overtime pay, not having to work seven days a week 14-16 hours shifts. The right to vote for women was hard fought, medical health benefits, pensions, and so much more. Civil rights, safe products and cars, establishing the Environmental Protection Agencies to clean up our air and water supplies from harmful pollutants, educating others about the dangers of nuclear waste and the susceptabily of nucelar power plants to earthquake damage (JAPAN in July 2007), ...our ancestors, mothers, father, grandparents...many fought for us to have a better life. And we now have to step up to the plate and make sure that our lives and the lives of our children are protected from schemes that will negative affect human health and our environment.

Almost all of our elected representatives, at every level, take the easy way out on the subject of persistent jet contrail, experimental atmospheric and testing programs, and experimental ongoing weather modificaiton programs. They use the U.S. Air Force as their foil knowing that the Air Force will write letters to their constituents stating that everything is "normal". Thus, they are off the hook, don't have to take our government documents and other evidence seriously or take any investigative action.

And then our elected officials hide behind National Security and "Classified" information in order to keep us in the dark and avoid a national dialogue on this subject. Our elected officals, since 1972, have no excuse for withhold classified information from Congressional debate.

Members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives are elected to represent all of us. Some elected to office are denied classified information, thus, they cannot represent the people's interest. A few of our elect officials are given "classified" information and then they state that they are unable to protest or even to report on that information to their constituents. However, this is a false statement in most cases.

The United States Supreme Court (Gravel vs Nixon) ruled on the Speech and Debate Clause of the United States Constitution in 1972. Under this ruling our elected officials can release classified information under this clause during debate and speeches on the floor of either the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate. In this way they can debate the issues and represent our interests. This decision gives our elected officials a way to debate what is classified and if these policies and practices are in the best interests of the people they represent, and do not violate the U.S. Constition or our Bill of Rights. We, the people, have a right to hear this debate and to have our elected officials have a voice at all levels of government in order to represent our interests.

All change takes personal sacrifice and all of us individually can make a difference. If we join together and support each other...then we become a voice that cannot be ignored. The decision is now left to each of us.

Respectfully,

Rosalind Peterson