Hooray for High Gas Prices!!!
Put public anger over high gas prices to good use. Start by finding out whether your elected officials are “loyalty challenged” or not. The result could prove that now is the time for average citizens and taxpayers to "Buy back America" from the morally bankrupt forces that own and control our nation. Use FOIL'S "Inquiry" to get the goods on elected politicians and the real root of the reason for high gas costs. There's no better opportunity for the average citizen to turn a nasty negative into a powerful positive than right now.
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) May 27, 2004 -- The skyrocketing price of gasoline is
the best thing that’s happened to America. It may hurt consumers‚ pocketbooks.
But the issue can be used to force politicians to come clean -- once and for all
-- on the issue of alternative energy resources.
While it's not the
politically correct thing to question politicians, it's patriotically correct.
It's the American way and it’s one of the best things citizens can do to get
their senators, reps and other elected officials to finally "fess up“ about
their connections to big oil and greedy corporate fat cats.
Put your
anger over high gas prices to good use. Start by finding out whether your
elected officials are “loyalty challenged” or not. The result could prove that
now is the time for average citizens and taxpayers to "Buy back America" from
the morally bankrupt forces
that own and control our nation.
It’s
time to vote out the political sell-outs and send them packing in disgrace. To
that end, FOIL -- the Foreign Oil Independence League ˆ has produced a
downloadable "Inquiry" the public can use to speak out, be heard, put
politicians on notice and communicate with the media. After all, the public that
elected the congresspersons and senators responsible for the making our laws is
the same public that packs the power to either influence elected officials -- or
get rid of them.
If enough people dip into the arsenal of FOIL’s
fight-back tools, they will collectively become a very loud and powerful voice
that can demand responsibility to the taxpayers.
As you all well know or
suspect, too many of the 435
congresspersons and 100 senators who control
America‚s policies are no longer “public servants” in the literal
sense.
Instead of serving "of, by and for the people,” too many
politicians and Washington bureaucrats, for the most part, are virtually
dominated by well-organized “public-be-damned” special interest groups ˆ big oil
interests in particular.
Office holders no longer see themselves as
publicly ordained leaders, but rather as “influential and powerful” executives
working for corporations. More power gives them license to spend more dollars on
their friends, backslapping cronies and pork barrel legislation.
The more a
politician can spend, the more attention he or she can get from “special
interest” friends.
The shame of it all is that most politicians didn't
start off their careers looking for power. They started with high ideals, a wish
to represent their constituents and concern with the overall economic health of
the nation.
They were not elected or appointed for their winning smiles.
But in many cases, that smile “now more of a sneer “ is all that’s
left.
American citizens have the ultimate power if they use it -- with
their collective votes, their angry e-mails and other visible signs of action as
their rightful weapons to put pressure on politicians responsible for our energy
policy.
There isn't a bureaucrat within the Beltway that doesn't
recognize the power of the people. They just choose to deny it because they’ve
seen little evidence of voter muscle.
But if people in their district or
state speak out against them, their political careers can come to a screeching
halt.
At the same time, high gasoline prices can fuel citizen support for
politicians who are doing battle with the political and bureaucratic buddies of
foreign oil interests.
Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal,
young and old, we are all victimized by terrorists and government disregard for
a switch to much-needed, made-in-USA energy.
There are a lot of ways to
be part of a group to create your own power base. Use the FOIL “Inquiry”
available on the Web site -- to find out whether you can trust your
congressperson or not.
After all, America has its own energy reserves
ethanol, wind, solar and biomass, to name a few. And while big oil companies,
car manufacturers and do-nothing politicians appear content with the status quo,
patriotic Americas need to do otherwise -- and protest.
With gasoline
prices going up every day, there should be fire in the belly of every American
who knows what the bureaucrats won't admit. That we are being gouged by big oil
and humiliated by overseas oil-rich thieves who want nothing more than to hurt
America.
Right now, they’ve got the power to do it. It’s up to us to
take that power away. And we can. Cutting down on foreign oil imports and
stemming high gas prices are within the reach and power of all citizens ˆ if
they just pull together.
If enough people use the material made available
on
www.joinfoil.org,
they can demand change. They can force the issue. They can talk up domestic
energy sources as a means of stopping blood-for-oil wars, brutal mutilations by
Middle East radicals and threats of terror attacks on the US.
Foreign
oil imports are driving America down a road that already jeopardizes its freedom
and extends an addiction that's already lasted too long, one that funds and
breeds more and more terrorism.
The solution is pressure. The politicians
who can move America away from foreign oil are your employees. They’re the
politicians you hired by voting for them. And all of us together must use public
billboard messages to put fear in their hearts by letting them know they‚re
expected to shape up or ship out.
That’s why we are going to the public
to take America back with an awareness campaign America has yet to see, one
that’s “funded by the people for the people,” said Stan Cotton, founder of www.joinfoil.org
The
age-old remedy of fighting back is no longer in style” said Cotton. “And we are
suffering as a result. ”Instead, citizens need to be patriotically correct. And
they need to adopt that positive and creative stance right now.
The
Boston Tea Party was a creative act on the part of America’s founding patriots.
That one act is still celebrated more than 200 years later -- moved a nation
along the road to independence from Britain.
The same no-holds-barred,
take-no-prisoners attitude that worked in the 18th century is desperately needed
again. FOIL wants citizens to adopt the spirit of America’s founding fathers who
committed an unthinkable act on the shores of Boston Harbor two centuries ago.
They shook their fist in the face of repressive government. They took the
phrase, “Taxation Without Representation” and turned it into a firestorm of
protest. And they didn't just whine, they put their backs into it, tossing tea a
precious commodity to the ruling British tyrants ‘ into those dark, cold
waters.
“Dumping tea was a way to fight back two centuries ago.” Cotton
said. “Now, it’s time to dump oil.” Americans have to recommit to the same kind
of fight. We have to shake our fists in the face of politicians and terrorists
and show them their oil means nothing to us and we would be better off without
it.
We need a shot of creativity and a dose of reality. Only creative
approaches to curing injustices will bring about a better society.
FOIL
says get in on the next Boston Tea Party only this time it will be foreign oil
that‚s dumped in the drink.
Log on to www.joinfoil.org. Get much-needed muscle to fight high gas
prices and participate in an eye-opening experience.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb129125.htm