I've realized recently that my efforts in effecting the US Government have been misapplied. I've been writing to my Senators and Representatives on every issue that matters to me. The writing has not been the problem. The problem is in the intended audience.

This should be painfully evident to every American. As we have seen, even when the opposition is as high as 300 to 1, Senators and Representatives will do what they want to do.

My carefully constructed arguments and quotations from Founding Fathers and founding documents were wasted. Why? Because, by and large, Senators and Representatives are illiterate. After all, why should they be literate? They have aids for such menial tasks. And those aids scanned my carefully constructed messages, and to the best of their abilities, correctly or incorrectly, entered "Yea" or "Nay" into a database of constituent opinions.

I do not need to write carefully constructed messages to my "representatives" (I use that term loosely) anymore. I merely need to say something to the effect:

"Please vote NO on the latest $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill."

As you can see, this is courteous, I said, "please." My opinion is highlighted, "NO" is in all caps. And I briefly reference the bill in question. Had I known the number, for example, I could have written:

"Please vote NO on S.2433, Obama's Global Poverty Act of 2007."

But what about those carefully constructed letters I so enjoy preparing? Well, that's the best part of this new strategy. Not only did the recent bailout blunder reveal the incompetence of our elected officials, it also revealed the competence of as much as 99.66% of the American people (or, at least of the American people who contact their elected officials.)

So those carefully crafted letters will now be going to the editors of papers and magazines. Liberty must be built from the ground up, so I will begin informing the literate of the issues that matter to me and should matter to them.

Of course, all such letters will also appear here.