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Miss Bell, your 2 cents are worth their weight in gold... I agree with everything you said.

We lose sight too easily of how much the world has changed in 10 years-- a decade ago you could not have even located a hundredth of the material of the clintons' wrongdoing.... and even if you could have, how would you have communicated it? It was so hard back then!

Now, everything is different- you can use mass emails or faxes to instantly send a story ( or link ) to a nearly limitless number of people, papers, and officials. You don't even have to be much of a writer- just send a link & say, "read this!"

I've already plugged cyber-activism as a way to reach people & educate them, but there are other, powerful means of reaching people who may have never seen any of the reams of information about the former first family of corruption & crime:

1- local talk radio. Note "local...." These shows are easy to get on and reach a lot of people- drivers, the elderly, working guys who keep a radio on, etc.

2- letters to local or regional publications have more influence than you may realize. Just as some movements "start at the top and then filter down," some grassroots movements "start at the bottom and percolate up to the top."

Never forget- the news and the entertainment industries were both implicit and conplicit in the clintons' slithering into power- they were, 90% of 'em, determined to get him in office and keep him in office. Ditto Hillarrhea!©....

We faced an enormous uphill fight just trying to convince America that "the stories they were seeing on TV were only the tip of a vast iceberg of corruption floating in a sea of sleaze."

I am flattered by your kind words BUT the real thanks goes to FreeRepublic and people like you who educated and enlightened ME. For that I am most grateful.

I despised the clintons and everything they stood for long before I discovered FR but what I've learned since simply boggles my mind!

You have made excellent points on starting at the local level:

Just as some movements "start at the top and then filter down," some grassroots movements "start at the bottom and percolate up to the top."

My favorite word: Grassroots. I don't have much free time to devote to politics like I would like. So during the Bush-algore election and the recent Virginia gubernatorial election, I wore buttons everywhere I went. Those buttons generated many, many one-on-one conversations; I got the opportunity to attempt to educate these people and I know a few people changed their minds about whom they were going to vote.

Bumper stickers are another good grassroots effort. There are tons of talented FReepers who could come up with a catchy bumper sticker/button phrase and design that could be used as a FR national campaign. With JimRob's permission, FR's addy could be added to bumper stickers and buttons bringing more people to see the light. (BTW, it was learning about FR that caused me to finally get off my dead butt and get on the internet.)

True, true and they may be the most difficult to change. However, didn't Whoraldo say just yesterday that clinton was a liar and an adulterer and admitted to being complicit in covering for him? If some of them can be enlightened one at a time...one at a time...then, when they find out how complicit the clinton's were in 9-11...who knows what can happen??