Current Affairs
Senator Larry Craig now has some internet friends!
by DotNetAllDay on Jul.08, 2008, under Current Affairs, FreedomSpeaks, Politics
An interesting event happened last night around 6 PM. I saw an unusual amount of activity on FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM and thought I may have a potential spammer on my hands. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only was it not a spammer, buy my site had become the target of a quite intriguing blog post by WONKETTE.COM. The story poked fun at the Senator, making light of the fact that he didn’t have any friends on my site. If you follow the comments on WONKETTE.COM, I think you’ll find (as I did) the comments are pretty amusing. Some might say that it isn’t right that we add fodder to the fire of a political scandal, but politicians are fair game in my books. More often than not, they tout themselves as pillars of society. We all know that that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
So, I’d like to give a shout out to the WONKETTE.COM. One final thought. Now that Senator Larry Craig has over 20 friends, what do we do about Senators Obama, Clinton and McCain? They don’t even come close! Maybe Senator Craig should be running for president.
Citizens Now Have a Voice with FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM !
by DotNetAllDay on Mar.04, 2008, under Current Affairs, FreedomSpeaks, Politics
It
is my pleasure to inform you that a new tool is available to the
citizens of the United States. Unfortunately for you, however, this
means you will now be held to a much greater level of accountability.
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM is proud to offer is a new online service free of
charge to all US citizens. Using this service, our members now can:
- Quickly find out exactly which public officials represents them at both the Federal and State level of government.
- Get contact information (addresses, telephones, faxes, emails, websites) for every one of those officials.
- Most importantly, contact those officials simply and effectively.
We now live in an information age, and it’s about time our
government caught up. The mere fact that many public officials do not
even have a publicly available email address is appalling and
disgraceful. Information is power, and it’s my mission to shift that
power back to the hard working citizens of this country. We may not all
agree on all the issues, but that is what democracy is all about.
Dictionary.com defines "democracy" as the following:
"government by the people; a form of government in which the
supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or
by their elected agents under a free electoral system."
You, as an elected official work for your constituents – all of them
(yes, even the ones that do not fund your campaign). We’re not really
happy with the way things are being run, so we’re going to take our
country back!
Founder
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM
Speak Out. Be Heard.
by DotNetAllDay on May.16, 2007, under Current Affairs, FreedomSpeaks, Politics
This is it America. It’s your time to speak out and be heard. You already know why – stay tuned on how.
