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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/HengShi on 2024-09-20 20:00:45+00:00.
I've noticed the top comments on the failure of the full UAPDA to make it into this year's NDAA essentially say "Time for catastrophic disclosure!" Or "Time for the whistleblowers to blow the whistle" followed by a bevy of similar opinions.
What seems to never be the next logical step is never uplifted, which is "time for us to actually organize in the real world".
We keep putting our hopes in UAP figures and outspoken members of Congress to get this massive piece of legislation enacted and don't seem to want to do the work beyond signing digital petitions and bloviating on Reddit.
How many rallies were organized for the UAPDA this past year? How many lobby days were organized for folks to visit their Reps in Congress to advocate for the bill? How many "tweet storms" with tight messaging were organized in the lead up?
I'm not saying this stuff to spit in the community's face, but rather to point out that a bill this big, with clear opposition from powerful lobbies, cannot pass quietly anymore, but it will continue to die quietly if it's even reintroduced a third time, unless we start to seriously organize around this bill.
The UAP Disclosure Fund should be the vehicle leading the way on this and I'm actually a little disappointed to see the 501c-4 not do anything beyond a "write your member" campaign.
In closing if we want to see the UAPDA make it next round, it's going to take a little more effort than wishing someone else makes it happen and having us learn to do legislative advocacy in a coordinated fashion.