Today's Letter to Congress

You know those various grassroots activist organizations, like TrueMajority and Faithfulamerica? I am a member of several of them... I love the fact that you can take pre-formed letters about issues and send them to congress, but also that you can edit them too.

For example - this one is opposing the development of bunker buster nuclear weapons. But before sending it, I included some advocating for some of my more closely held priorities... Nuclear Power generation and Nuclear Propulsion. I hate seeing money wasted on weapons when it could be better spent improving the planet and our ability to travel thru space.

Here's my enhanced letter:

Oppose funding for the Bunker Buster Nuclear Weapon
I am writing to urge you to vigorously oppose any legislation allocating funding for the so-called "Bunker Buster" weapons program. We need to develop more Nuclear Electric Power Generation and Nuclear Propulsion systems (such as the ORION and NERVA Programs developed and tested) instead. As a person of conscience I cannot support any effort on behalf of my country to further escalate a growing and increasingly unstable worldwide nuclear threat. However, I STRONGLY Support Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear propelled spacecraft.
Such a weapon is not in our best interests, nor can we claim to be leaders for peace if, in asking other countries to abandon their nuclear ambitions, we feed our own.
Also - we should resurrect the ORION program and use our existing nuclear arsenal as "fuel pellets" for the ORION class spacecraft that were designed in the 60's. NOW is the time to finally give that program the attention it deserved all along.
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry said, "I have never been more fearful of a nuclear detonation than now. . . . There is a greater than 50 per cent probability of a nuclear strike on U.S. targets within a decade."
Our nation must learn from our mistakes. The world will not allow yet another U.S. nuclear weapons program to remain unmet. For the security of the planet, for the reputation of our nation in the world, and for the sake of our own conscience, I ask that you authorize not one penny of our national treasure for this misguided nuclear project. Nuclear weapons are not the answer, Nuclear Electrical Power Generation and Nuclear Propulsion IS!