Quote Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki View Post
I respectfully disagree.

Fighting this legislation has now consumed my life. I'm averaging about 4 hours of sleep a night and spending 30 - 60 hours in Washington DC every week. Every extra nickle that I have (and even nickles that I don't have) have gone into signs, flyers, website development, and travel. I've basically stopped working my "real job" in order to spend all of my time fighting. I promise you that I want nothing more that to defeat these bills.

But for me, being dishonest or deceptive is not the way to do it. We are battling special interest organizations that have risen to the position of power that they have by manipulating the truth, twisting the facts, sharing partial statistics, and not give the whole story on many issues. If beating this law means turning into the same organizations that I am fighting I'd rather lose. Truth, honesty, and transparency are the only thing we have that makes us better than them. If we stoop to their level, we have lost no matter what the outcome of the vote in the Senate is.

If you feel that telling the truth will keep people from fighting then so be it.

Personally, I believe in the human spirit. I believe that the good guy does win in the end. I believe that if we do our best, honestly and openly, then we've won before we even started.

I certainly don't mean to single you out, but we definitely share a difference of opinions on this one. I still commend you for your efforts and thank you on behalf of everyone I know for all you are giving to the fight. Like minded individuals will disagree from time to time and thank goodness for that. It's what makes this country great.

Respectfully,

-adam

No. I do not mean be dishonest. What I mean is, instead of telling everyone "but you will still be able to......"

From reading replies to all these threads on this subject, alot of people are confused about these bills.

Its good that people step in and explain but those people also need to explain what will be ultimately lost.

You are not the only one losing sleep about this. Ive been dreaming of snakes for weeks now and they are not happy/stress-free dreams.

People need to remember that we cant just give up. Yes there is still a long process to go before it becomes law if its passed but just to show how much interest & debate this has caused is good fight in itself.

Dont get me wrong. I believe everyone needs to be made aware of all the facts but it should not be downplayed. The likely repricussions later on, if these bills are made into law, should be told. Some of the comments on these threads are lulling people into a false sense of security IMO.