Jessie and I are shipping down to Washington DC on a bus right now. By the time most of you read this, we will have arrived.
"We're blessed with idiots for enemies," says Jessie as we pass through Annapolis.
"If you can afford a yacht, then you can afford slightly higher taxes than the rest of it. I don't want to hear you whining about how you can only afford a 100 footer instead of a 150 footer. Your boat is bigger than a house! And if you have a problem with that, then cry me a fucking river and ride your yacht down it."
We can't afford millionaire lobbyists to go from office to office agitating for our interests. We can't hire people to sit down with senators and representatives. We've got to do the job ourselves.
So Jessie, Tool, and I hopped on a bus, and are going to go talk with some congressmen. I'll be tweeting pics and info from my twitter account, @WillMcLeod99. We'll be going all day today, and much of the day tomorrow.
What we're doing is citizen lobbying. We're going to be talking to our representatives about Campaign Finance Reform â real reform â to make our political system run on votes instead of dollars. We're going to be talking about the Sanders Amendment, Citizens United, and Corporate Personhood.
We're going to be talking about the odious bills which are threatening our freedom of speech, and due process of law. The NDAA and PROTECT IP acts, one of which makes indefinite detention of an american citizen a distinct possibility, and the other which will destroy social networking and freedom of speech online.
We're also going to be advocating for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Orrin Hatch has said that consumer financial protection will destroy the banking industry. Hatch has admitted that in order to continue making money, the too fat to survive banks need the freedom to defraud Americans. The fact that the right to defraud is being advocated in Washington is disgusting.
So we're heading down to Washington. We're going to make our voices heard. And I'm going to document the whole thing.
Cry havoc and let slip the Kossacks. Washington has no idea what's coming.
But you do. Follow me on twitter for images you wont see anywhere else, and maybe some video.
There's this big exciting announcement that I've been wanting to make for months, and it seems like we're really close to making it I'll explain more about what I mean in a later diary. Stay tuned!