Issues that we face - Truth In Congress
As our congress is elected by "We the People", and we the people must provide an oath, in order to be held accountable
for our testimony when we find ourselves in front of a judge or a court. I believe that our congress should also be
required to take an oath in the crafting of these laws.
Go to every one of your representative's sites, copy and paste the following request into their "comment" box
under honest leadership.
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I would like for YOU to advocate "Truth In Congress" because we the taxpayers have been forgotten by our
representatives. Every bit of misinformation, known false statement or industry provided "talking point"
costs us valuable time, resources and it costs our congress INTEGRITY. YOU clearly cannot afford to lose OUR
confidence. Congressional integrity is already in question because lobbies,
corporations and special interests BUY OUR VOTES and frequently provide "talking points" and there
exists ONLY an AGENDA, and no foundation in fact for many of these tactics.
I expect that all discussions,
debates and law crafting efforts should be based FIRST in the truth, and then in OUR needs, as WE the People
are your EMPLOYERS and NOT the corporations, lobbies or special interest groups.
I espectfully request that the current congressional "Oath of Office", be modified to include appropriate
"language" that will ensure that ALL congressional members that are held, under this legally binding oath to
tell the truth on the floor, in committees and within the various hearing venues, and to provide citations for
all sources for factual information (used to form opinions or consensus) for the congressional record so that it
is available for review and validation, under penalty of law.
This current oath means little as it stands,
however the Constitution requires that you "Swear or Affirm" to such an oath. One can only view this requirement through the eyes of
our founding fathers, where they clearly understood the importance of YOUR recognition of your position in respect to
We the American People as stated. They (our founding fathers) clearly found it unfathomable, that anyone would take
an elected office with only their own best interests in mind - unfathomable THEN and it IS UNFATHOMABLE now!
As our
congress is a reactive body it takes a large mistake or problem to cause a review and possible change to be made. Congress has been significantly less
than trustworthy, our news media feeds on the "freely provided misinformation" that spews forth from congress, like
the oil from the floor of the gulf once did. I am proposing a cost free method, to cap the misinformation that
is coming from OUR CONGRESS by use of the Oath of Office that you must all swear or affirm to.
Subsequently, I would like to have perjury laws enforced, where a congressional member has knowingly provided false information. Will YOU make me and our state proud by authoring this important legislation?
I respectfully request that AS YOU REPRESENT ME, that you stand in the FOREFRONT of this reasonable (and critically needed) solution for We the Peoples sake
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Where does this cost us money: WASTED TIME What we can do about it, Here (soon)is a list of groups
and organizations that can help Our Congress is charged with the creation of laws,
these laws are the rules that govern our behavior, the behavior of businesses, interaction with other nations and
many other elements that guide us as a society. We must answer to the law when we violate it and we must abide by it
in order to continue to enjoy our lives as we know them. Where the law is concerned, there will be a penalty
when a violation has occurred, in criminal cases, the sentences are punitive in nature (punishment intended), in civil cases
cases, it involves restoration of what has been lost by the plaintiff, and may also have a punitive component.
Our congress has the ability to charge a witness with perjury, a standard that they themselves are not responsible
enough to uphold. Do you realize that our congress holds hearings that are conducted with the witnesses under oath? In fact
our congress has passed criminal laws that determine what perjury is, what the punishments should be and
they impeached President William Jefferson Clinton on the basis of perjury. How can it be that our congress is not responsible
for providing the truth as a fundamental requirement for a fair debate toward the crafting of OUR laws?
In both of these cases, I am presuming that the person has been found guilty of a crime or the civil offense as charged.
We must also understand that unlike other countries, our justice system is based on presumed innocence.
This premise is extremely important as we look to law enforcement, in that violators have a robust justice system to
ensure that everyone is given a fair trial. With that element firmly in mind, we must realize that whenever we
"face the law", we must take an oath that we will tell the truth while we are providing testimony in
any court proceedings where we are involved - as defendant or as a witness (for defense or prosecution).
This is the case when WE face the law. Why then is it not required when a law is crafted by
our legislature? It seems to me that when a law is created, the input to the foundation for that law should also be
provided with a guarantee that the debate is valid, nothing less is acceptable. Our congress (Federal, State or Local), is
reactive by nature. This is to say that no law has ever been created in anticipation of wrong doing. In each case,
someone (individual, company, industry, group, or belief system) has provided a reason for our congress to craft
legislation to counter detrimental effects of some behavior. Clearly this is a broad statement and a generalization
however, it reflects the fact that we have disruptions as a result of one or more of these entities
pursuing an unfair advantage in the marketplace, in our society, or even globally.
