What you can do

Many people write to ask what they can do when their elected officials ignore complaints and won't respond to questions, requests for information or investigations. I offer the following for your information and possible future action.

Write letters to the Editor (with cc: to your elected officials)
Acting as a lobbyist and educating your elected officials and their staff is another effective tactic
The personal contacts you make are extremely important
Well written petitions that with real signatures (not just Internet signatures) are invaluable tools
Make friends, maintain your credibility by presenting your elected officials with government documents, pictures and other data that back up your claims.

Avoid referring to words and statements that are made without documented backup materials

If someone makes a claim, ask for his/her backup documents – or don't use the information. It is your reputation that is at stake when you approach your elected officials. Ask questions but always provide the backup government documents that prove your case. Avoid using information which is just a theory or someone else's belief. If you plan to make changes, educate yourself and others to make a case that would hold up in a Court of Law.

Avoid personal attacks

Our elected representatives are responsible for protecting public health, the health of our children, pets, wildlife and our trees. We the people, must take a stand, rebel against their ignorance, lack of interest or fear, and educate them. All elected officials are like us ... in need of education. If we treat them well, work with them, and avoid attacking them personally, all of us working for a common goal gain in the long term. Remember that someone, somewhere, convinced you that there is a problem. And many of you took some real convincing! One key is to treat others as you would have them treat you – with respect. Your approach and attitude can open (or close) many doors.

David vs Goliath

Corporations employ paid lobbyists to educate, bribe, and write Congressional bills to benefit themselves at public expense. We, the people, who have no lobbyists may believe that we have no influence. Not true. We vote and we have a public voice. And we have one important advantage – all of our elected representatives have to come home and face us, either to stay in office or to be elected for the first time.

Our public officials need to provide us with informed answers to our questions regarding local issues of tree death and declines and the increase in public health problems. They should be willing to listen to the public, keep open minds, hold public hearings, conduct air quality and particulate tests, and investigate the tree and health symptoms throughout the United States. They should be investigating how persistent jet contrails exacerbate (according to NASA) global warming, change our climate and affect natural resources. It is up to us to demand the agriculture studies that show how persistent jet contrails influence crop production and reduce photosynthesis.

Writing and e-mailing all media outlets and individual reporters is a top priority

Writing, telephone calls and making personal contacts with those elected representatives that are incumbents as well as their challengers in the upcoming elections in 2007-2008, is paramount. We need to demand a national dialogue on these important issues. Writing and e-mailing all media outlets and individual reporters is a top priority. Educating the editors of magazines and all newspapers is extremely important. They should be pressed to ask questions and investigate. We need to make sure that these questions are asked by the media to all candidates.

Now is the time to strike. Educate. Demand answers. Ask questions. Keep pushing these important issues. It is time to organize locally – and each day or week take some action.

Stand fast!

Many who contact me thank me for my efforts but in the next sentence, state that they are too busy to take any action or that they feel powerless. This is not true. We all have time. It is just a matter of priorities, your health and the health of your children. If you don't stand and fight now then you will spend a lot of time and money fighting off the illnesses that will be the result of some of these government, military, university (with government and private funding), and private corporate programs. You can stand and fight now or you can suffer the health and crop loss consequences later. The decision is yours.

I've even been asked by some people where they can move to avoid what is happening to our skies and our environment. I am always saddened by the question because there is nowhere to run ... nowhere to go. It is time to stand firm and make a difference.

Complaints alone won't get it done

There are those who do nothing more than complain. They spend hours blogging their complaints or sending numerous e-mails outlining their complaints. Negative e-mails and complaining on the Internet is not a solution. It will not change anything. Your personal contact with your elected representatives at every level, educating yourself about the problems and the issues, and uplifting and helping those that are working to improve the quality of your life and resolve your complaints will bring change.

Complaining is a waste of everyone's time. If you want change, spend your time working for that change. Find solutions and research information for more. Demonstrate. Vote. You have tremendous options to make changes. It is time to avoid attacking others, complaining or whining while doing nothing to help those who are working for change.

A legacy worth fighting for

Our ancestors were maimed, killed and jailed while fighting to keep children out of the coal mines. They fought (at great risk) for better working conditions, eight hour days, overtime pay and not having to work 14-16 hours shifts seven days a week .

A woman's right to vote was hard a fought battle, as well as, medical health benefits, pensions and so much more. Civil rights, safe products and cars, establishing the Environmental Protection Agencies to clean up our air and water supplies from harmful pollutants, educating others about the dangers of nuclear waste and the susceptibly of nuclear power plants to earthquake damage (JAPAN in July 2007).

Those who came before us—mothers, fathers, grandparents—fought these battles not just for themselves but in order that we have a better life. It's our turn to step up to the plate to make sure that our lives and the lives of our children are protected from schemes that will negatively affect human health and our environment.

Almost all of our elected representatives (at every level), take the easy way out on the subject of persistent jet contrails, experimental atmospheric and testing programs, and ongoing experimental weather modification programs. They use the U.S. Air Force as their foil knowing that the Air Force will write letters to their constituents stating that everything is "normal". Thus, they are off the hook, don't have to take our government documents and other evidence seriously or take any investigative action.

Our elected officials also hide behind National Security and/or "Classified" information in order to keep us in the dark and to avoid a national dialogue on this subject. Since 1972 however, our elected officials have no excuse for withholding classified information from Congressional debate.

Members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives are elected to represent all of us. Some elected to office are denied classified information, thus, they cannot represent the people's interest. A few of our elected officials are given "classified" information and then they state that they are unable to protest or even to report on that information to their constituents. In most cases, however, this is a false statement.

The United States Supreme Court (Gravel vs US government) ruled on the Speech and Debate Clause of the United States Constitution in 1972. Under this ruling our elected officials can release classified information under this clause during debate and speeches on the floor in either the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate. In this way they can debate important issues and represent our interests. This decision gives our elected officials a way to debate what is termed classified and whether these policies and practices are in the best interests of the people they represent – and do not violate the U.S. Constitution or our Bill of Rights. We, the people, have the right to hear such debate and to ensure that our elected officials have a voice at all levels of government in order to represent our interests.

All change takes personal sacrifice and all of us individually can make a difference. When we join together and support each other, we become a voice that cannot be ignored. The decision is up to each and every one of us.

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