Since both the White House and Congress no longer consider prosecuting torture as a crime, it is safe to assume that we can begin to legally use these methods as legitimate tools to lobby our Congress and White House for the real changes we expect from our government. These methods that I document will be equally applicable to those who lobby against the interests of average American citizen on these issues.
Congressionally Approved Method of Lobbying #1
Method for lobbying Congressional members and White House administration officials that push for funding of energy non-solutions such as the proven mythical “clean coal”:
The symbolism of turning their mythical clean energy into a tool for lobbying for real clean energy solutions ought to shock them into doing the right thing.
Standard Connecticut policed state disclaimer: Please read and clearly understand the meaning of “SNARK“ before you waste my time and the taxpayers money following me around on the internet and in the real world. Just remember how stupid illegally harassing Ken Krayeske made all of you look.
For this series that I plan to continue.
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DOE’s sudden about-face came shortly after the FutureGen Alliance selected Mattoon, Illinois as the site for the plant over other possible locations – including Texas, Bush’s home state. This timing led lawmakers and other stakeholders to publicly question whether the DOE’s later decision was politically motivated.
Half billion dollar accounting error
Lawmakers requested a GAO analysis of the situation over a year ago. The results of that investigation, released on March 11, conclude that the DOE inaccurately estimated the costs for the FutureGen project.
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A separate report from the House of Representatives’ Science and Technology Committee goes a step further and claims that Bush’s team at the DOE knowingly relied on inaccurate cost figures to derail FutureGen. Democratic staff on the committee reviewed thousands of DOE internal documents and concluded in a 10 March report that the Bush administration never fully committed to the FutureGen project or its goal of developing technology to allow the use of coal without large emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases or pollutants.
‘In retrospect, FutureGen appears to have been nothing more than a public relations ploy for Bush Administration officials to make it appear to the public and the world that the United States was doing something to address global warming despite its refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol,’ the report reads.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."None of that surprises me in the least bit. Even if the technology for “clean coal” ever had existed in the bush years (it didn’t and still does not) bush would have suppressed the technology or the needed legislation so the power plants would not be burdened with actually using it.