An Aspie Congress?

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Do we need our own congress? Online, the community is united at best by a scattering of forums, blogs, and mailing lists. We need a body, a congress, where we can voice our opinions collectively.

Here are the aspects of its potential constitution:

• Origin: This the aspie or auttie community you came to the congress from. Note you are not a delegate representing that community but rather a member originating from that community. You represent yourself. Thus if one community (e.g., Wrong Planet) has all its active members join the congress, they each have a vote; if, say, Aspergian Island has only 10% of its active members participate, well, they've got proportionally fewer votes coming from that community.
• Party: You may join a party to advance common interests. You may only be a member of one party at a time.
• Members register issues they'd like to see debated or voted on. These issues are then semi-randomly assigned to a docket for an upcoming week. Members indicate their availability to debate issues in committee (e.g., 5:00-8:00 P.M. -06:00 UCT each weeknight) for the upcoming week. This generates a committee to review and debate the docket of issues (if at all possible, the original proponent of an issue will be assigned its docket, which realistically limits members to proposing one issue per week).
• Ultimately, a committee can elevate a ready issue in the form of (a) a resolution of the congress or (b) a guideline or recommendation issued by the congress to be voted on by the general assembly. Alternatively, an issue can be deferred for discussion in a future committee or outright discarded.
• Resolutions and recommendations elevated will be voted on the following week. Members may vote on these issues at any time during the week; only their docket has a schedule (to enable them to chat with other members in committee live). A simple majority vote by the end of the voting period results in passage of the resolution or recommendation.
• Resolution are considered to be the official opinion of the congress immediately upon passage. Guidelines and recommendations officially take effect on the first day of the next month after passage.

It wouldn't be a republic as it would be more of a technocracy. NTs need vague and fluffy rhetoric to know who to vote for. An aspie party would be cool though.