At 8:39pm on June 22nd, 2007, Angel Jimenez said on ning.com...

What I what to know is, how many of us are like ants, bees, or buffaloes? How many of us are willing to give up their lives/livelihood/happiness for the sake of the big national or state honchos? It sure seems like they will do as they please unless we gather together in huge numbers to bitch about something that they should have been on top of all along.

How many of us have the >follower gene>? How many of us really think for ourselves?

Note to Webmaster. How about adding polling capabilities?

I wrote the above at a network at Ning.com. This site is like myspace but you create networks that ning.com members could join. To date, there is uniformity in the HTML. There does not seem to be any of the eccentric MySpace pages. Just people gathering together for a common cause. The friendship angle, though, is still there; as is, the possible variations in content (as opposed to mere presentation). I think that, if you are a teenager, go MySpace. If you are out of college, a plain old working stiff, or a teenager who would like to network around a cause, go Ning.

I was going to go to the Washington, D.C. rally that the ACLU had orchestrated but I had emailed them about how ridiculous their site was, always asking me to type in my name and address every time they asked me to "take action" by sending an email to my representatives. I did it anyway because it was for a good cause but on two occasions after entering the information and modifying the message, the site told me that I was not eligible to send the email for one reason or another.

I told them how asinine this was and they emailed me back with a link about their "take action" program. I promptly backed out of the Washington trip and out of the ACLU. I just hate inefficiency; especially, when the organization has the resources to do it right.

This brings us to the importance of doing things ourselves and not relying on others like the ACLU to do our dirty work for us. We need to establish our own lobbying effort. Please read the earlier post to discover how we can take back our government.