Current Mood: Angry

“Contact your congressman!” “Write your senator!” These phrases have been used for many years for people to take action and to influence congressional votes and such. But… what if your elected officials responded by harassing you? That’s exactly what’s happened in Missouri.

Current bill: Deeming horse meat legal to slaughter for human consumption. Guh-ross. Okay, I’m vegan, so I’m sure the heck not going to eat a horse. And leave it to backwoods Missouri to want to allow this. But I’m not an activist, so I’m not going to go beyond stating my view that I feel that eating these graceful animals is totally barbaric. If I were a meat eater, I wouldn’t eat a horse any more than I would eat a dog. Ick. However, there are other people who are activists. And these are the people that say, “Contact your congressman!” and “Write your senator!” and that’s exactly what Brenda Shoss did. Brenda Shoss is the leader of an animal activist organization, Kinship Circle. So she rallied her people to contact Missouri lawmakers to vote against the disgusting bill. Instead of influencing the vote, the lawmakers (you know, the people that taxpayers pay to deal with these issues, to be in contact with the people, etc) thought it would be funny to harass Ms. Shoss by forwarding calls and emails to her. Yes, the people you put into office, ladies and gents. The story from Kinship Circle here. The story from the St. Louis Post Dispatch here.

Apparently the people that you elect have forgotten that you, the people, elect them, thus you, the people, have every right to contact them. There were (semi-truthful) responses of “Oh, well these people that were contacting me weren’t even from Missouri!” Well you know what? If this vote is passed in Missouri, other states will follow suit. Thus they wish to stop it before it starts. And then there’s a demographic that just might not be looking up the Missouri board of tourism for a visit. I currently live in Illinois, so I am unable to rightfully contact. And perhaps if I did contact as a Missourian, I would be met with hatred.

And the best part of the whole thing? Some of these stuffed shirts are talking about voting for the bill when they were previously against it, merely out of spite. Seriously?! “Well I don’t like what you did so I’m going to just go and do the opposite of what you want.” What kind of childish BS is that?

The people that you voted into office need to be held accountable for their actions. I thought that we elected real men and women into office, not a bunch of jerks that won’t listen.