You can write to anybody that you wish. Don’t say that you’re a citizen if you’re not, but anybody can send a letter to anybody else.

Also, citizens often write to congresspersons and senators other than, or in addition to, their own.

I guess I can still donate to worthy causes though, but I once wrote to MoveOn to ask if I could donate and I never got a reply…

Indeed, there are restrictions on donating to political causes. This is probably borne out of a good idea—you don’t want big foreign influences overrunning your political system—but it stinks for the little guy.

“Freedom is for Science what air is for animal: deprived of this freedom, it dies from suffocation, like a bird deprived of oxygen. And this freedom must be without limits, because, if one wants to impose limits, one gets a half-science only, and half-science is no longer science. Thought must never be subordinated to any dogma, political party, passion, interest, preconceived idea, to anything indeed, except for the facts themselves, because, for science, to be subordinated means to die.”

It says that the last sentence is reproduced on the walls of the main building of the University of Brussels.

These political abuses are not being done out of ignorance, but to facilitate changes in policies, regulations, and laws at the local and regional levels, while the Federal government dismantles all sorts of safety protocols, environmental protections, and the deterrence to engage as a nation in reckless abuse of the planet.