Pre-Packaged Letters of Complaint or Support

While you'll find me sometimes recommend that people interested in voicing their opinion on something to do so, I find myself becoming less and less happy with sites that try to pre-package the support or complaint letter for you, allowing you to just virtually sign and send.

If you feel strongly enough to send such a letter, I think it probably makes sense that you write your own. Not only are savvy political and media staffs beginning to recognize a pre-packaged campaign, some won't even count those packaged ones (or won't count them unless it suits their purposes).

Now, yes, I understand why the Bushies and the Rabid Wrongies choose to use these types of campaign. Bill O'Reilly or Karl Rove or James Dobson or Brent Bozell certainly won't trust people to say it correctly when they want to drum someone out of office, into jail, off the planet or off the TV. So they'll hand hold to make sure their groups complain "correctly".

But we're not O'Reilly Righties or Limbaugh's Lamers or Rove's leather slaves. We can write our own notes. If an organization provides a form letter, scrap all or most of it and draft your own. Use the link, but not the packaged bullshit. And because we believe in freedom - as opposed to the Rabid Wrongies who only want their freedom and the rest be damned - we don't need to tell people what to say.