To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Paid lobbying and influence peddling outlawed
We believe in the exclusive right of the individual to state his or her case individually and freely in the process of democratic governance, and in doing so, no exchange of cash or items or articles of any value whatsoever should be allowed by law in the legislative process, including the common, corrupting practice of paid lobbying. To protect the sovereignty of the Constitutional rights of the individual, it should be clarified by law that to pay or influence any party to speak on your behalf individually or en masse to any elected official or member of their organization or staff, or affiliates, or to make such occur in any way shape or form that involves the exchange of funds or favors is viewed as treason, an act of defiance, deliberately corrupting, disorienting, diverting and disallowing the free and equal exchange of ideas and information, a deliberate violation of the foundation of an equal right of free speech. Where once once of the main purposes of the lobby was to educate legislators on matters that might be up for debate, this particular purpose of lobbying no longer exists. With the advent of mass media, mass educational resources, mass communications, the internet, access to unbiased expertise freely and readily available to legislative staffs for investigation, no such personal education is even reliable. This paid or rewarded "advice and consultation" via lobbyists, et al, can no longer be considered untainted and unbiased, but should now be considered as interference in an equal voice from individuals without such monetary advantage, and thus, interfering with true "FREE SPEECH" from all interested parties and as such, the attempt to create an unConstitutional imbalance of power and influence. Such acts of influence on our legislators and their organizations through any means whatsoever in either money or favor or any such means of intent, will be construed as deliberate defiance of the Constitutional democratic process, judged as treason and dealt with accordingly. Any group of UNPAID, unfavored, or unrewarded representatives, per the right of free speech, will continue to be allowed to express their thoughts and opinions openly and freely, without interference or threat, to those legislators and appointees acting on their behalf in the due course of governance.
Why is this important?
The purpose of lobbying has been usurped by the greedy, the rich and those actually aiming to thwart the voice of the American people for their own monetary and political gain. The American people must take back complete control of their own government access and disallow paid mouthpieces to muddy the waters and pollute our democratic process. People (and only people) should have FREE and UNFETTERED access to state their opinions without being challenged, negated, and usurped by paid representatives of special interest groups. We must get ALL money our of our political system so it can be revived from its current tarnished and corrupted state back to that intended by the signers of the Constitution of the United States of America. Only individual (i.e. private citizens, including CEOs, THEMSELVES) should have access to our lawmakers.