The Sierra Club voted this week to suspend its entire 35,000-member Florida chapter for four years and removed the chapter's leadership. The reason? The chapter openly criticized the Club's decision to partner with Clorox for Clorox's new "Green Works" line of "natural" cleaning products.
The dispute between the Florida chapter and the national organization started in December, when Sierra Club's national board of directors overrode the Club's Corporate Relations Committee to approve the deal with Clorox. So far, details about the exact nature of the agreement have not been revealed, except for the fact that Clorox will pay the Sierra Club for its sponsorship and the use of its logo on Green Works products, with the exact amount depending on product sales.
This is exactly why I am no longer a member of the Sierra Club, PETA, and the ACLU. All of these organizations seem more interested in setting policy at the corporate headquarters and doing things their way, and damn the consequences.
The subject above is an example of this mentality displayed by the Sierra Club.
For years I have tried to get PETA to help me and other like minded folks in Mississippi get the acrchaic laws in this state that concerns the protection of our domestic friends. I am referring of course to the dogs and cats we have in our homes that we are guardians for. I continuously remind them that this state has made it a first offense felony for abusing livestock, but when it comes to our domestic friends we are lucky if a third offense is considered to be a felony. PETA is more interested in saving a lobster, making killing chickens more humane, stopping the wearing of furs, and the like. All worthy causes but all are what the corporate headquarters have deemed important not what the membership has deemed worthy. Over and over again I have tried to get their assistance, I always get the same reply - write letters, talk to your Representatives; talk to your Senators, etc. When I explain that I have done all of this including presenting petitions with thousands of signatures, they simply grow quiet.
The ACLU - A fine and worth while organization that seems to have no control over their state chapters. When I pointed out to the headquarters that the Mississippi chapter was continuously sending notices announcing meetings that arrives to late for my attendance; and sending surveys to me that was earmarked for another individual, I got what amounted to a virtual shrug of the shoulders. When I pointed out the fact that I thought their State organization was being run by a bunch of incompetents that didn't seem to care, even when I phoned them and pointed these things out, I was answered with complete silence.
Needless to say none of this organization will get another penny of mine until they prove to me that they are willing to listen to those of us that REALLY care.
About Me
- Dave
- I retired from the Air Force in 1981 after having served for 20 years. The first four years of active duty I served as a Security Policeman, the next 16 years I was an Air Traffic controller. After retirement I worked for a contractor as an Air Traffic Control Subject Matter Expert. In 1985 I again joined the government, this time as a civilian. I retired on the 31st of Dec 2005 after over twenty years in civil service. I am now fully retired. I will be the first to admit that I supported Reagan. I think it was during that administration that I first questioned my political leanings. I will further admit that I use to watch Fox News, that changed when it became apparent that they were a mouthpiece for the right wing neocons. During the Afghanistan war Fox used to use Ret Col. Hackworth as its military expert. During the build-up for the illegal war against Iraq, Col. Hackworth denounced the unprovoked attack on a soverign nation. That was the last time you saw Col. Hackworth. That made it plain to me that Fox would not put up with guests that had different opinions than what they espoused.