Petition Tag - illegal

Egyptian activist, blogger, and software developer Alaa Abd El Fattah who played a major part in the Egyptian revolution, has been unlawfully detained, after voluntarily responding to a summoning by a military prosecutor, since 30 October 2011.

Refusing to recognise the validity of the interrogation, or the military prosecutor questioning him, Alaa was faced with charges including inciting violence and theft of weapons, despite unquestionable evidence to contradict. Alaa's silence also stemmed from his belief in the huge part the military played in the killing of peaceful protesters in that particular incident.

Following an international campaign against military trials for civilians, Field Marshal Tantawi, Egypt's interim leader, ordered the case to be transferred from a military prosecutor to the State Security Court.

Expected to have been released this week, Alaa's case was rejected by an Appeals Court and The High State Security Court has added the charge of premeditated murder with the intention of committing an act of terrorism to the list of the charges he is facing.

Many believe Alaa's detention is a tactful mind game played by the military council to scare off other Egyptian activists for whom Alaa seemed embody the true spirit of the great Egyptian revolution.

His wife, Manal Hassan, is expected to give birth to their first son, Khaled, this week.

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The involvement of Australian politicians in a "flotilla" which aims to encourage and support terrorism under the guise of humanitarian aid should result in the removal of their rights to run for any political position Australia.

They intend, like the last anti-israel provocation, to engage in illegal warfare with a foreign military (Israel) which is illegal. The red cross has stated that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and indeed Gaza has the highest standard of living and mortality rate in the entire arab world.

We must tell these MP's and the Australian government how disgusted we are with the involvement of the greens Sylvia Hale and Labors Lynda Voltz. The 2010 Flotilla resulted in the deaths of 9 IHH terrorists.

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It is 2011 and Australia is still in the dark ages when it comes to the sentencing of criminals, in particular those who commit sex crimes against children.

In a recent trial a judge in Victoria sentenced a woman who had incestual sex with her son for and allowing her husband to repeatedly molest her daughter for five years and three months and ordered she serve two years and three months before being eligible for parole.

This message shows the Australian public as well as the rest of the world that sex offences against children are not of much concern to our judicial system.

We need to call on the PM to bring back the death penalty and harsher sentencing for sex offenders.

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This is an online petition that DEMANDS Canada's elected representatives - Honor and Obey their sworn Oath and responsibility to 'Serve and Protect The People of Canada': and 'First and Foremost: To Protect the rights and freedoms - of ALL Canadians.

Under no circumstances may any elected official - ignore - violate or abuse their powers. Endorsing criminal discriminatory and abusive, language laws, in Our Canadian Province of Quebeck, grossly violates and make a mockery, of Canada's Statutes Of Law Making Regulations, our Members of Parliament 'have sworn and are legally bound to uphold.

The Statutes clearly state, "...that any law, bill amendment introduced (including language rights) that diminishes the rights (in any way) of the people of Canada -or- segment of the population: "Shall be deemed NULL & VOID" and any elected representative introducing them "Shall be immediately removed from their position.. and/or face criminal prosecution."

The Ethnic Cleansing of Quebec's English Population - MUST End Now.

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Since a video of Saskatoon Radio Personality Ryder allegedly smoking the drug salvia divinorum started making its rounds on the internet there has been an alarming increase in those opposed to the drug – which is legal. Truvia natural sweetener is also legal, made from stevia plants (Stevia is a genus of about 240 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family).

Just like salvia, it has very little genetic connection to the cane and coco plants from which the most common habit-forming drugs, like sugar, cocaine, and crack are derived from. But it should be illegal because someone made a petition that says so.

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Citizens of the United States want action now regarding the deportation of all ILLEGAL ALIENS that are present in our country.

This petition is directed to all 50 state governors to establish a 1/4% sales-tax increase that the citizens of your respective state are willing to pay, with all derived funds to be used exclusively for the detention and deportation of any person that is known to be in this country illegally.

This tax increase MUST expire 2 years after its date of implementation.

You can sign the petition without your name appearing in the public signatures list. Your name can appear as "Anonymous".

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Show your support for the Arizona Immigration Law

Arizona's law is scheduled to take effect July 29th, but the Obama administration is trying to block the law. The new Arizona law orders immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and allows police to question people during any lawful contact if there's reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally. The law does not allow police to round up people and check their documentation papers. The law also targets those who hire illegal immigrant laborers or knowingly transport them.

Sign the petition to let the Arizona Governor know that you support the new law and to let President Obama know that you oppose efforts to block it.

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As Americans we are tired of giving illegal immigrants our jobs, our education, our healthcare and degrading citizenship in our country.

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EchoGreen has been around for years with an intention to Do Something. We are a growing group of writers, musicians, singer songwriters, artists, media producers and web consultants. It's been a long time coming, the need is here.

Recently, as oil leaks into our oceans and we have images of tar rain pouring onto our bodies, homes, vehicles, animals and gardens, we cry for the dolphins, as it rains and we decide, the time is now.

EchoGreen will be sponsoring several petitions with the voice of those who are at one with the earth and its ways in the old way mixed with the new way. 

The old way being, feeling the vibration of the earth and the beings, in other words, feeling their life, their voices and their feelings reverberate through our beings, while hearing the voice of the earth as if it is speaking our language and an animate object. Earth is an animate object, we often, have just lost our ability to hear what it has to say. She/it/he is talking to many of us at once. And we have something to say via our translations.

Whereas the new way is through media, through business, through the grid and the economy of the West, speaking out to the people who can make the difference because they have the economy and consumption at their fingertips.

We are the people, we are the change, we are the ones we have been waiting for and we are here. Let's take it for the big one, let's do what we can. Let's petition to businesses, to governments, to presidents, to the people. Let's make our voices loud and clear and let's take a stand. 

We live, we eat, we release our waste, we breath, we love, we think, we feel, we dance, we laugh and we play, just as we all do or want to do.

It's time to do this without hurting the earth and others. What can we do? Whatever it is, you know inside you. Start by signing and making petitions and sending them to companies, making them popular. Campaigns are big and our voice can be heard. Do it from the heart and with integrity. Do it with true knowledge about what is best. For instance, how can we be mobile yet not consume oil? How can we receive food yet not have it inefficiently trucked across America? How can we save the seeds and not spread disease? How can we be healthy happy and harmonious?

We can do it. Let's do it, one at a time, before we can no longer breath, eat or stand.

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Petition to

President of Georgia
Parliament of Georgia
Tbilisi City Hall
Tbilisi City Council
Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia

We are appealing to those who understand that cultural heritage is not a matter of taste, but a fact, in other words, a value that should be protected; to those who know that Stalinist architecture (especially as because this architectural momument belongs to A. Shchusev), is equally valuable for our culture as other civic or religious facilities built in various periods of our history; to those who think that ‘new’ should not be built at the expense of ‘old’.

Tbilisi, 29 Rustaveli Avenue is the address of a former a branch of Marxism and Leninism Institute building, where recently the Constitutional Court was located. This building was built according to the project of a famous Russian architect Alexey Shchusev in 1933-1938. The importance of this building for Georgian, specifically Tbilisi history and architecture is widely known. It is the unique, high-quality example of architecture of the Stalin era. Apart from its architectural value, the factor contributing to its uniqueness is that the world famous architect A.Shchusev designed not only the façade of the building, but every detail of its interior. A special project was designed by A. Shchusev for interier decoration - all the door handles, chandeliers, lamps, furniture for the assembly hall - was made by well-known painters and craftsmen according to that plan.

The way this building was planned, its architecture and the construction process itself was specific professional school for young Georgian architects. We would like to remind that during this process pumice stone and concrete reinforced constructions were used for the first time. A good deal of books and articles were dedicated to arvhitectural and artistic value of the building. Until recently, the facade of the building was decorated by high reliefs made by famous sculpture Jakob Nikoladze and beautiful frieze created by well-known Georgian sculpture Tamar Abakelia.

All the above said proves once again the importance and value of the building at 29 Rustaveli Avenue, which used to be a branch of Marxism and Leninism Institute.

Due to the decision of bureaucrats at the Ministry of Culture and Tbilisi City Hall, which was based on the order N3/181 of 01 October 2007 ‘On cultural heritage protection’, signed by the Minister of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia, seriously breaching the law, the ’Imeli’ building was removed from the list of the monuments with cultural heritage status. The building was granted the cultural significance status in 1986. This is the year when the first record of immovable statues was made.

After depriving of the status, the building was sold profitably. The new owner dismantled the left, four-storey wing of ‘Imeli’ without having any official permission. A very big part of the remaining roof has also been removed. Atmospheric precipitations continuously permeates through, thus creating hazardous conditions for the building. The interfloor cover is demolished, bearing walls, assemply hall, the unique interier and archive materials, doors and windows are removed, this fabulous monument of cultural heritage is consistently demolished.

After demontstrations, numerous articles and various urban activisms organised by ‘Tiflis Hamkari’, despite the promise of the investor, there still does not exist a project approved by the Tbilisi City Hall architeture service, the permit of demolition, a guarantee to maintain the building, an expert conclusion of sustainability of the construction and geological research.

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for years animals that nobody wanted have been killed through Euthanization, which is a greek word meaning "good death" first of all there is nothing good about killing animals nobody wants. They would never kill a child in an orphanage, or an elderly person in a nursing home, or a vegetable on life support (without family consent) so why animals? is it because they can't speak, or read? this is a pressing problem, if we ever want to achieve world peace, we have to start at home, this includes not killing the innocent.

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We,

The humble US Citizens residing in The Great State Of Arizona.

Have been witness to an enormous influx of "Non-Citizens" into Our United States Of America and directly into Our Own State Of Arizona.

We wish to end this flow of Illegal Immigrants.

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We,

The humble US Citizens residing in The Great State Of California.

Have been witness to an enormous influx of "Non-Citizens" into Our United States Of America and directly into Our Own State Of California.

We wish to end this flow of Illegal Immigrants.

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We The People,

Of FreeThinkUS, and of this Great Nation request that Our Representatives End Illegal Immigration and all its Financial Support, which has been an overwhelming drain on Our Country and its CITIZENS.

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An article in the Sacramento Bee on September 10, 2007 by Washington correspondent David Whitney summed up automatic citizenship: "Although Congress has never passed a law saying so, no president has ever ordered it, and no court has ever ruled on the issue, each of these babies automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when it takes its first breath." This is a taxpayer injustice.

Our citizens' movement will launch the national debate we need to bring an END to illegal "birth tourism" and AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP in the United States of America. The movement will uphold the recorded words and real intent of God, Jesus Christ, and the authors of our Constitution. To the authors and the states which passed the 14th Amendment "subject to the jurisdiction" is to mean that citizens are born to parents who are "NOT subjects of a foreign power."

The goal to stop illegal automatic citizenship is critical toward reducing the crime problem. A major reason deported criminal illegal aliens return immediately to the United States after deportation is because they have left behind children born here. Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security, reported there are two million criminal illegal aliens.

Illegal alien births: Approximately half of all births in Los Angeles County, 65% at Los Angeles County General Hospital, and 70% of all births at San Joaquin General Hospital. Now 10% of all births in the U.S. are to illegal aliens, about 385,000 annually. In California, 25% of all births are to illegal aliens, or about 300 births per day, one anchor baby born every five minutes in California.

84 hospitals, 65 emergency rooms and more than 70 acute care hospitals have closed in CA. in the last 10 years. $8.6 billion unreimbursed emergency care costs in 2007.

Most Californians do not know this, and the Democrat controlled Legislature is not going to tell them: Illegal aliens are paid 18 years of welfare checks for the anchor child in a child-only Cal-WORKS case, while federal regulation allows a five year maximum for citizens. (The initiative will prohibit the issuance of this welfare program to illegal aliens.)

From a NY Times Editorial referencing information from the Center for Disease Control: Hispanic girls have the highest teen birth rate, twice the national average, one-quarter of the girls are mothers by age 20, 50% of those births are illegitimate, for El Salvadorans 73 illegitimacy, Jamaican 86%. The Latin teenage birthrate is the fastest growing segment of the United States population, three times more than white, 1.5 more than black. Unmarried Hispanic birthrate increasing faster than any other. Unmarried teenage births: Mexican, 93 births per 1,000, white 27 per 1K, Asian, 17, black, 65, Italy 6.9, Japan 3.9.

Statistics show that teenage pregnancy produces high school dropouts, increases the chances of the offspring dropping out, earning less, using welfare, belonging to a gang, and these children are eight times more likely to be incarcerated. This Third World birth rate puts us on the fast track to unstoppable family breakdown and an exploding, expanding permanent underclass in the United States.

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FreeThinkUS,

is a relatively new grassroots group of ordinary, concerned citizens whose first order of business is to present the Governor and Legislators of Massachusetts with a petition opposing the "New Americans Agenda".

It is our hope that like-minded, legal, taxpaying residents of the Commonwealth will read, support, and sign the attached petition to be presented to Massachusetts Governor Patrick, State Representatives and Senators. You must be a legal, Massachusetts resident to sign it effectively. Thank you.

FreeThinkUS

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Preamble:

This action was prompted by Massachusetts Governor Patrick's public release of the "New Americans Agenda" Final Report on November 17, 2009. The 45 page report contains 131 recommendations, all of which would benefit both the legal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of illegal alien residents of this state, summarized from "citizen input" obtained at contrived public meetings.
The town meeting-like assemblies were organized by 10 community-based organizations, each of which is affiliated with or supported by SEIU/ACORN, working in concert with the Governor appointed Advisory Council for Refugees and Immigrants (GACRI). The so-called public meetings, attended by 1200 Massachusetts residents (representative of only .0185% of the state's population), solicited by the organizing groups, were not well publicized to the citizenry at large, if at all.

Among the objectionable 131 recommendations to benefit illegal aliens at the Massachusetts taxpayers' expense:

1. Access to taxpayer subsidized in-state college tuition for all immigrant residents.
2. Access to drivers licenses.
3. Expanded ESOL programs in schools and the workplace.
4. Increased funding for translation and interpreter service in schools.
5. Bilingual education.
6. Translator services available at all health centers.
7. Financial assistance with Naturalization costs.
8. Subsidized Public Housing.
9. Assistance with housing applications.
10. Adult dental services coverage by Mass-Health.
11. Increased access to multilingual support staff in State Agencies.
12. Discourage questioning by local and state police on the immigration status of those involved in crimes - including suspects.

Governor Deval Patrick is fervently promoting his "New Americans Agenda" absent the opinions of the vast majority of Massachusetts citizens who do not support funding, with their taxes, further entitlements for illegal aliens.
He is clearly not only encouraging but supporting criminal intruders at great expense to the legal residents of our state. We object to being overlooked by our government in the process of polling public opinion on the subject of immigration, and oppose the "New Americans Agenda", specifically regarding the benefits and rights of citizenship it proposes be given to illegal aliens. With national unemployment hovering at 10% and families struggling to stay afloat in this economy, we demand our elected officials put legitimate Americans first. We must be our own advocates, and protest with a determined and unified voice.
Please join us in signing this petition.
You and your families will ultimately be the beneficiaries of your support.

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I am asking people to sign this petition to help those residents who have had their Children taken from their care in an unjustified manner without being given the opportunity and help to stay living as a families if possible.

Too many children are been taken from Vulnerable Mothers and Fathers and the complaints procedure with which Social Services operate protects them from being complained about during the course of court cases until after the final hearings, which means that if you have evidence that the Involved Social Workers have for example 'LIED' to the courts, they have legal security that your children's rights will be taken to court without a fair hearing with them to be seen as 'Independent' and 'Professional' by the court and so are seen to be telling the truth even if they are not.

This is not Justice.

Social services are also able to Emotionally Abuse your children Legally. For example, one 8 year old boy was taken aside by social workers during the School day to be told that he would be going into care 'to a house with a doggy' and was told that his Grandma, with whom he had been living for 18 months was not to be trusted by the services. The Family had no idea this had been said to this 8 year old boy until a few days later, when he had been asked why he was feeling sick every morning and he told his family, 'they have been to see me and told me i was going to care. The family had not been told a visit had been arranged, that social workers were telling this little boy whilst he was isolated in a room at school that he was going to care, there was no support given to this child as the family had no idea. The court had not even been made aware of this case by this time. This child had the weight of the world on his shoulders and the Mother who still had PR was not even aware it had occurred.

Please sign this petition if you truly believe that more could be done to protect our children and stop the 'legal bullying' that is happening to hundreds of families every day.

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Illegal downloading is ruining the global music industry.
If something is not done then the industry will be no longer this must be prevented !!

Illegal downloaders are stealing music and should be treated the same way as all other criminals.

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The facts outlined below will prove that the Lisbon Treaty Referendum of 2/10/09 is Null and Void under Irish and European law. I present two separate points that shall subsequently be proven:

I. Numerous violations of Irish Referendum law and discrepancies that call into question the security and validity of the votes themselves, default the Irish vote to the result of the last Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

II. The Irish Government, alongside the European Commission ran a fraudulent and illegal campaign for the Lisbon Treaty Referendum.


If everybody reading this downloaded the printable version and filed it with the Gardai, there's no way they could continue unhindered.
Download here:
http://rs482.rapidshare.com/files/289213634/Criminal_Complaint.doc

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Puppy mills are technically not illegal yet. The cruel harsh environments they live in should not be tolerated. We as the people should stand up and eliminate this problem.

In my opinion a puppy mill would be hell on earth. Unclean environment, barely any veterinary care, and a crowded living environment... this isn't right.

Puppy Mills are cruel and need to be stopped.

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The sport of Paintball should not have to prove itself to the Tasmanian Government any more. The safety statistics have been provided, the proof of their futility in relation to every other firearm under the act has been proven and the Tasmanian community has voiced its support.

Paintball in Tasmania has the potential for a very positive economic boost within the Tasmanian community and the tourism industry.

Paintball is an active and intense sport promoting fitness, team work, communication and enjoyment for all types of people.

Paintball in Tasmanian will bring with it the opportunity for a complete national competition as well as state and club level competitions.

To make this a success we need the support of the Tasmanian community and other communities around Australia involved in Paintball.

Please support Paintball in Tasmanian by signing this petition.

Thank you in advance

Tas Paintball

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There is no political oversight, vetting or need for the "Czars" created by this administration.

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People around the country have gotten a rude surprise since early April with the arrival of Census workers carrying GPS units. Their job is to record the exact longitude and latitude location of the "front door" of every home in America within a 40 foot range of error.

Census has refused to offer any explanation for why this was not announced. The census is taken every ten years. The next one is supposed to be in 2010. This is 2009. There is NO FEDERAL STATUTORY AUTHORITY for what they are doing. They have cited none, because none exists. But they are quick to threaten American citizens with punishment if they do not cooperate.

Instead, they play word games to their advantage for their nefarious purposes.

This conduct is typical of this administration. In typical Chicago thug style, they push people around and have no problem breaking laws themselves. They feel no responsibility to you the American citizen who pays their bills. All take and no give.

Moreover, their false promises about protecting this information is one big lie. There have been too many stories of hackers breaking into and otherwise acquiring huge amounts of sensitive government information. This kind of data, in the wrong hands could be devastating to numerous individuals in this country. It must be stopped now.

Two things need to happen. This illegal GPS census must stop and all collected data must be turned over and destroyed. They are breaking the law and they know it by being so secretive and unresponsive to our demands. So, they must be stopped: By petition, by protests, by shouting at our representatives, and by law.

Despite what they say, they have no right to be on your property. The federal government has made unconstitutional assertions for decades. The same is true here.

So, if you are as alarmed as other Americans, please sign this petition, as well as contacting your representatives and seeking out lawyers to file suit to stop this illegal GPS census.

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One of Malta’s most attractive points is the relative safety in which we go about our daily lives. Up to recently, Maltese nationals and foreigners residing in Malta alike, all went about their daily lives, knowing that they live in a safe environment.

No one ever thought that in Malta you could get mugged in your own street, just outside your own home! What has this country come to? Have we fallen in love with the EU to the extent that we want our crime levels to mirror those of most states?

A friend of mine moved to Malta recently as “it is a safe place to bring up your children”! At this rate, if the authorities do nothing about it, these lovely words will carry no more weight!

Are the respective authorities on the ball on this subject? Should we revert to Neighbourhood Watch in highly sensitive villages and towns, to tackle this issue? What are we waiting for? Some real serious accident to happen, perhaps? An over-protective parent or boyfriend, acting impulsively to save their valuables, ending up seriously injured at the hands of these criminals?

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deviantART recently released a news article discussing changes to the policy which states: two areas where copied works are deemed acceptable are the Scrapbook and the various Fan Art galleries.

Copying, tracing, and duplicating in any respect is a copyright infringement.

Allowing a broader range of this to exist in deviantART is not only deterring the quality of the community, but putting us all at higher risk of being exploited in the same way.

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With biotechnology unclear and complex, large multinational companies are able to claim Patents to the very essence of human life, the Human genome, and have their claims enforceable in the courts.

A good example of such abuse is a recent case where a "biotechnology company Genetic Technologies has announced it will enforce its patent rights over tests for two genetic mutations, BRCA1 and BRCA2, which increase breast cancer risk".

references:
http://www.medicalsearch.com.au/News/Legality_of_breast_cancer_gene_test_patent_under_probe-33470
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/fears-patent-will-make-breast-cancer-gene-tests-too-expensive/811742.aspx

This means that one of the tests that allows our doctors to diagnose higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer in a section of the population would would be controlled only by the one company, in this case 'Genetic Technologies', potentially limiting access to the test.

An Australian University academic Dr Luigi Palombi claims that such tests are unpatentable.

Professor Ian Olver, chief executive of the Cancer Council Australia says that this "is an area where there is little clarity in Australian law".

The laws of a country are there to protect the people of the country. If the laws are clear enough on this topic they should be made clear.

No company should have the right to hold Patents such as the Patent that threatens the welfare of women in this above mentioned case. This patent, and patents like them are wrong, and should be Illegal under the law.

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In regards to the “Return Directive”

Up until the end of the World War II, Europe was an emigrant continent. Millions of Europeans departed for the Americas to colonize, to escape hunger, the financial crisis, the wars or European totalitarianisms and the persecution of ethnic minorities.

Today, I am following with concern the process of the so called “Return Directive”. The text, validated last June 5th by the Interior Ministers of 27 countries in the European Union, comes up for a vote on June 18th in the European Parliament. I feel that it is a drastic hardening of the detention and expulsion conditions for undocumented immigrants, regardless of the time they have lived in the European countries, their work situation, their family ties, or their ability and achievements to integrate.

To the Latino American countries and North America, Europeans arrived in mass, without visas or conditions imposed on them by the authorities. They were simply welcomed, and continue to be, in our American continent, which absorbed at that time the European economic misery and political crisis. They came to our continent to exploit the natural wealth and to transfer it to Europe, with a high cost for the original populations in America. As is the case of our “Cerro Rico” of Potosi and its fabulous silver mines that gave money supply to the European continent from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The people, the wealth and the rights of the migrant Europeans were always respected.
Today, the European Union is the main destiny for immigrants around the world which is a consequence of its positive image of space and prosperity and public freedoms. The great majority of immigrants go to the European Union to contribute to this prosperity, not to take advantage of it. They are employed in public works, building work, and in services to people and in hospitals, which the Europeans cannot do or do not want. They contribute to the demographic dynamics of the European continent, maintaining the relationship between the employed and the retired which provides for the generous social security system and helps the dynamics of internal markets and social cohesion. The migrant offers a solution to demographic and financial problems in the European Union.

For us, our emigrants represent help to the development that Europeans do not give us – since few countries really reach the minimum objective of 0.7% of its GDP in development assistance. Latin America received, in 2006, remittance (monies sent back) totalling 68,000million dollars, or more than the total foreign investment in our countries. On the worldwide level it reached $300,000 million dollars which is more than US $104,000 million authorized for development assistance. My own country, Bolivia, received more than 10% of the GDP in remittance (1,100 million dollars) or a third of our annual Exports of natural gas.

Unfortunately, “Return Directive” project is an enormous complication to this reality. If we can conceive that each State or group of States can define their migratory policies in absolute sovereignty, then we cannot accept that the fundamental rights of the people be denied to our compatriots and Latin-American brothers and sisters. The “Return Directive” foresees the possibility of jailing undocumented immigrants for up to 18 months before their expulsion – or “distancing”, according to the terms of the directive. 18 months! Without a judgement or justice! As it stands today the project text of the directive clearly violates articles 2, 3, 5,6,7,8 and 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

In particular, Article 13 of the Declaration states:
“1. All persons have a right to move freely and to choose their residence in the territory of a State.
2. All persons have the right to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country.”
And, the worst of all, is that the possibility exists for the mothers of families with minor children to be arrested, without regards to the family and school situation, in these internment centres where we know that depression, hunger strikes, and suicide happens. How can we accept without reacting for them to be concentrated in camps our undocumented compatriots and Latin American brothers and sisters, of which the great majority have been working and integrating for years? On what side is the duty of humanitarian action? Where is the “freedom of movement”, protection against arbitrary imprisonment?

On a parallel, the European Union is trying to convince the Andean Community that the Nations (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) sign an “Association Agreement” that includes the third pillar of the Free Trade Agreement, of the same nature and content as that imposed by the United States. We are under intense pressure from the European Commission to accept conditions of great liberalization of our trade, financial services, intellectual property rights and our public works. In addition under so called “judicial protection” we are being pressured about the nationalization of the water, gas and telecommunications that were done on the international Workers’ Day. I ask, in that case, where is the “judicial protection” for our women, adolescents, children and workers that look for better horizons in Europe?

Under these conditions, if the “Return Directive” is passed, we will be ethically unable to deepen the negotiations with the European Union, and we reserve the right to legislate such that the European Citizens have the same obligations for visas that they impose on the Bolivians from the first of April 2007, according to the diplomatic principal of reciprocity. We have not exercised it up until now, precisely because we were awaiting good signs from the European Union.

The world, its continents, its oceans and its poles know important global difficulties: global warming, contamination, the slow but sure disappearance of the energy resources and biodiversity while hunger and poverty increase in every country, debilitating our societies. To make migrants, whether they have documents or not, the scapegoats of these global problems, is not the solution. It does not meet any reality. The social cohesion problems that Europe is suffering from are not the fault of the migrants, rather the result of the model of development imposed by the North, which destroys the planet and dismembers human societies.

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Even though it is illegal to capture bears in both India and Pakistan, more than 1,600 sloth bears are being forced to dance by madaris, the people who capture and keep the bears.

For years sloth bear cubs in India have been poached and tortured through brutal training methods to become Dancing Bears, forced to perform for tourists. At less than 4 weeks of age, the cub is stolen from its mother who is often killed while trying to protect her cubs. Sold to traders and middlemen at underground markets, trauma, malnutrition and shock accounts for a mortality rate of more than 50%.

The surviving bear cubs are sold to Kalanders who will teach them to dance.
At the tender age of 4 months, the cubs canine teeth are knocked out. A red hot iron needle pierces its muzzle, and a coarse rope is pulled through. The wound is never allowed to heal, and the cub will live in fear, hunger and pain, tied to a stake for the rest of its life.

Many cubs die before the training begins because of the stress of capture, the terrible transportation conditions, starvation, dehydration, and rough handling. Although bears used in these acts would live up to 30 years in the wild, they rarely live more than eight years in captivity.

Source(s) - http://www.freethebears.org.au/bear-projects/india.html

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/dancing_bears

As well as signing this petition, you can help free the bears by:

Writing a letter to to Overseas Governments using this website - http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/dancing_bears

Donate to the WSPCA - http://www.wspa.org.au/

And Sign a petition on the WSPCA website - http://www.wspa.org.au/

The bears need your help.

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Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman (known as "Kareem Amer") sentenced and imprisoned for a term of four years in the February 22, 2007 on charges of "incitement to hate Islam" and insulting Egyptian President codes.

In this framework, the organization announced Reporters Without Borders:
"We consider this provision shameful. The investigation with Kareem Amer was a serious abuses of a public prosecutor representing the presence of three agents from the Attorney General illegal side of the official investigator, who mock Karim Amer during interrogation, and threatened and ridicule because of his views that hold , As well as the questions are illegal and reflect the tendency of public prosecution away from the law, such as "Do you fast? Does lying?" Which made the investigation with Kareem Amer far cry from the impartiality and transparency, so that an inspection in the conscience rather than with legal Writer reflects on his ideas.

It was Karim Amer lawyers had informed the incident of Amer`s torture in prison by one of the prisoners and a guard amber, and ordered police officers from one prison officer is "Medhat Samir", following the detection of Karim Amer reality of corruption in prison, was punished and punished severely torture, Resulting in one of his teeth broken and many of the injuries he suffered, as well as the denial of reported against the officer Medhat Samir, as well as deprivation of proving those injuries in a medical report.

The Arab Network and Hisham Mubarak Center for Law in their communiqué of the Attorney General that the attack on Kareem Amer : "Abdelkarim Nabil Suleiman" has been tortured at his "cell 22" by prisoners and one guard in the presence and under the supervision of the officer Medhat Samir and ordered him, thus breaking one of his teeth "Tusk from the left upper jaw," and numerous abrasions and bruises all over Sporadic his body.

Was then transferred to a cell of discipline, and there was handcuffed hands and feet from the back, then beat him again, resulting in further injuries.

Then they brought another prisoner and stripped of his clothes completely, and beat him in front of the prisoner Abdel Karim Suleiman, and the threat that they get the same punishment if he does not mean interfering with again.

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The immigration authorities are letting anybody in they don't know if they are terrorists or not. Since they have started coming in this country most of them are terrorists and have bombed places, for instance the 9/11 bombings on the twin towers then the July 7th bombings in London what ever next.

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