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Organize a Letter Network (Excerpted from "Citizen Soldier Handbook")
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.” Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Why This Is Important: If you have a pen and ten willing friends, you have ten times the power. If you can get a hundred people, a thousand people or more, then you can bring more People Power to bear. You can write letters to these targets: •Pressure elected officials who create foolish and naïve policies •Expose newspaper editors too Politically Correct to label murderers as terrorists •Hammer school officials who give in to terrorist sympathizer groups to change their policies. •Lean on the local School Board about their absurd, politically correct policies. Why Not Email? Email has simply lost its impact. With spam and the ease of sending email, the recipient may not ‘feel’ any real pressure. The deluge of today’s email has diminished the weight of individual voters behind the email effort. Emails require little effort and are given even less attention. They are deleted or relegated to a file folder on the server at best. To measure an issue’s interest, I read that politicians believe that an actual letter indicates three hundred to five hundred constituents who feel the same way about an issue. In other words, your single letter has the weight of three hundred or more neighbors and citizens! And with more people in a Letter Network, you have more leverage. Network Weight Perception 1 300 300 10 300 3,000 20 300 6,000 50 300 15,000 100 300 30,000 500 300 150,000 1000 300 300,000 E Pluribus Unum was one of the first national mottos of the United States of America. The motto has thirteen letters, representing the Thirteen independent colonies united into a single country. Selected by the first Great Seal committee in 1776 during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress approved this motto for the Great Seal in 1782. From the Latin, “E” means “out of”. “Pluribus” means “many”. “Unum” means “One.” “Out of Many, One.” Or I should say…”Out of Many, One Voice!” That’s Leverage!
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