This is a job for… WACKY FAX!!!

A crude but effective way of getting one’s message across to Congress was born several years ago out of my involvement with CodePink: the Wacky Fax. Originally used to lobby Congress on matters of impeachment and war funding, the Wacky Faxen relied on humor to get their points across. Faxzero provides an easy and fast means to lobby Congress from your PC.

Today or tomorrow the Senate will vote on the war supplemental bill. In concert with UFPJ’s National Media Day of Action on Afghanistan I urge all two and a half of my readers (there’s evidently been some serious soul fragmentation out there) to join with me in the sending of this, my latest Wacky Fax creation.

The Senate has already turned back a request from the Obama administration for an EIGHTY MILLION dollar budget to close Guantanamo Bay; a decision I feel is wise since honestly I find it boggling that it would cost that much to close anything so illegal and immoral. The rest of the country is suffering and we simply cannot afford to continue paying extortionate prices to do the right thing with our military. I demand to see justification for such a ridiculous budget. Close the doors, turn off the lights, find the unfortunate people who pulled that duty work somewhere else, send the folks inside either to a fair trial or back home with some form of well deserved wergild, and GO AWAY. This costs that much, exactly why? I think we have a right to know. Let’s see the budget. Let’s see the line items. Let’s see who got the no-bid contracts.

When my family is hit with a car repair or medical bill, we don’t eat. I’ve had to miss meals so that my husband can afford his asthma medication. There have been months where I had sixty dollars to work with for the food budget. I won a small cash prize of $100 last summer from a web site that went straight into the fridge. And we’re actually doing well compared to some.

I think we have a right to know why these military/industrial complex gluttons continue to be allowed to fleece the American public for all they’re worth. I think we have a right to see exactly what’s getting pork barrelled and where this money – money WE NEED coming to US – continues to go. I’m tired of being forced to deal with parts of our government who are still behaving like mafiosi running a protection racket. As Memorial Day and July 4th near, my otherwise formidable ex-military stomach turns as the warmongers ratchet up the hype and trot out that tired old propagandist music. If I never hear “Wind Beneath My Wings” or “Proud to be an American” again it will be too soon. What’s to be proud of? What’s to celebrate? The achievement of MY American dream? The way my entire family’s DoD service has been twisted and turned against the American citizenry on every level, to include me and mine? Proud of sanctioned torture? Proud of warrantless wiretapping and domestic spying? Proud of our collapsing economy? Proud of a complete and total lack of accountability toward the war criminals who pulled off the most vicious swindle of this or ANY century in the entire history of our nation? Oh, PLEASE!

Enough already. Get your Wacky Faxen going on. Use the one I posted here, or make your own.