As Disclosure advocates we may have a dream, but first we have to earn it.
People say it's too hard to get 25,000 signatures on the White House "We the People" site in a single month. The number should be lower or the time should be longer. The site is erratic, they say, and our signature totals are being suppressed, others chime in.
If we can't get 25,000 signatures in 30 days -- despite serious obstacles to organizing -- then we aren't really much of a social movement, are we? OWS protestors are getting pepper-sprayed but we can't be bothered to sign an Internet petition?
So, one week in to The Need-to-Know Petition, we know what has to be done. We have to kick it up. We have to kick it way up. We need over 1000 new signatures every day starting now.
If you're reading this, you need to actually get 25 friends to sign, too. And it has to go a level beyond sending it to 25 people on Facebook but actually following through to see that they actually do sign. Good intentions won't count.
There is nothing subjective about what victory is. 25,000 legit signatures from anywhere on Earth at http://wh.gov/jeK by midnight on December 30 (we started November 30). That is hard, cold, objective reality.
