Figured it was about time. I came to the conclusion, after a year of trial-and-error, that working within the system of the federal whistleblowing community is largely a waste of time. It’s a dysfunctional, fractured, cowed veal pen of “useful idiots” who support their exploiters and oppressors through silence, if not active suppression of dissent. Change will have to come from the outside, by educating new folks (such as yourselves) without corrupt ties and who have not been (directly) traumatized and brow-beaten by the government and then the corrupt NGOs.
For background on this, just review my diary (and this post in particular: It’s time to blow the whistle on the federal whistleblowing community).
Looking forward to seeing what this membership entails.
And seeing that I’m under the word count required for new posts, I leave you with this:
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.



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Welcome to FDL!
You have just joined up with an extremely large group of people that have the understanding of the brick wall. We know it is there and each day we learn more of the support brackets and reasons it exists.
Thanks. I hope this will force some changes in this small but crucial sector of government accountability.
I’d like to be a firedoglake member, but when I offered to send a check yearly they turned me down. I refuse to give ANYONE permission to charge my credit card or bank account in future. Period.
I do make one exception, but only for my mortgage at a LOCAL credit union.
Why?
Also, won’t having a debit card solve the problem?
I don’t have a debit card either because fewer protections than a credit card but if I did have a debit card, how would that “solve the problem”? I would still have to give permission to someone to charge that account in the future and pay attention to charges.
Where when I write a check or spend cash it is all easy and I don’t have to ever worry about watching for someone ELSE’s mistake.
Texan, and anyone else interested — if you go to the FDL ‘Become A Member’ clicker there is a graphic of a blue envelope on the lower right that says Donate By Mail. It is below the Red “Join Us” graphic. Clicking on that (or the links I have supplied above — same thing) will get you a .pdf to print out and mail in with credit card #, cash, money order or check. They would probably take latium bars, too, but not sure what the current rate is.