On 2005-10-17 09:44:00, Anonymous wrote:
"that bill is never going to fucking pass. If anyone had any idea about how the legislative process worked you'd shoot yourself right now. Now matter how many people sign a petition to get a bill passed it still won't matter. You have to build alliances with the powerful politicians. You have to know someone there. You have to force that shit down their necks and get them to agree. It's not about the people, it's about politics, and petitions are the least successful method to get your point across. Nice try, but you would be better off giving head to the speaker of the house than sign this petition!"
yea, we're going with the head thing next-- lol...eh, yuck...
I am 99% sure this won't pass as well, in our so called democracy... but it's creating some kind of buzz, or is at least that's the idea. Your statements are quite presumptuous, but I understand you're lack of faith in the American people...
I know I am doing more than just this- as starter of this petition I felt I needed to mention that- others are doing more as well... people are working with politicians, but as you said it's alliance building and that takes time. Well, it's acutally more than that...it's education and THEN alliance building. It's kind of incredible how little the people who can acutally do somethign to change this don't really understand- don't get it on a human level in terms of connecting with individuals stories and not getting it in terms of efficacy of care. The 'pick yourself up by the boot strap' underlied by the 'beating the devil out of you' mentality is so pervasive- we need a cultural shift but we need people who can influence this shift---ahhhh...we need SO MUCh to change.
The petition is a tiny step, but that's how things get started.
Incidentally, if you were a student (or parent or mental health professional) please e-mail Dr. Allison Pinto to sign on to the letter she's started and will be submitting to Congress... Even better, submit your story...
See here
http://cfs.fmhi.usf.edu/projects/ASTART.htm[ This Message was edited by: katfish on 2006-02-25 23:06 ]
