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THIS LAW WOULD REQUIRE ALL SEX OFFENDERS, RAPISTS, PEDOPHILES, ON THEIR FIRST OFFENSE TO BE MONITORED WITH AN ANKLE DEVICE during their entire lifetime or face a 50 year prison sentence, mandatory therapy/classes, and be kept away from anyone under 17 years WITHIN 5 MILES(residence) of a SCHOOL, CHURCH OR PLAYGROUND) and 50 feet on outings.
The sexual offenders must also allow law enforcement to enter their homes utilizing the "T.U.F.R. LAW", which would allow ANY law enforcement to enter the home of a convicted offender during a time of a possible kidnapping of a child under 17, that is in the area of not only the missing victim, but of the "MANDATORY REGISTERED" SEX OFFENDER, such as in the case of Jessica Lunsford, and many, many other innocent BABIES, KIDS, that have been mutilated, murdered, raped, sodomized, and "thrown away" like a piece of "trash".
32. Non Payment of Child Support Crimianl offence in Every State & County 
As of now, if you reside in NC and are recieving family assistance from the Dept of Social Services and have an order for Child Support, it is handled though a "Case Worker" instead of an attorney. If the parent whom is ordered to pay, doesn't pay and falls in arrears, IF a warrent IS issued, it is a "Civil Warrent" making it unable for the Law enforcement to know anything about the warrant.
DeadBeat parents can get stopped for a traffic violation and never have to worry about getting caught for their support issues. The only thing they might have to worry about is the custodial parent getting an address on them. Here we are told "You find him/ her and we will pick them up."
33. Same Social Security plan for Senators and Congressmen
SOCIAL SECURITY...PLEASE READ
WHY WAIT UNTIL 2008? THERE IS AN ELECTION IN 2006. I HEREWITH FIRMLY STATE THAT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN, REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER ISSUES, IF HE DOES NOT SPONSOR AND SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION. THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE STANDING FOR ELECTION IN 2006.
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE WITH ME ON THIS BY REPLYING AND FORWARDING TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
ABOVE MESSAGE DATED 4/25/05
IN CHATTANOOGA, TN
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
2008 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
This must be an issue in "2008" Please! Keep it going.
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SOCIAL SECURITY:
(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.
Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.
You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.
In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.
For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..
For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.
Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.
Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA....ZILCH....
This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;
"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!
From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into,-every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer)-we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.
Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bill Bradley's benefits!
Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.
That change would be to:
Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us
then sit back.....
and see how fast they would fix it.
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.
How many people CAN you send this to?
Better yet.....
How many people WILL you send this to ?
Military pay is substantially low. Military personnel put their lives on the line everyday to ensure that we are able to have our rights protected by the constitution.
They fight for our freedom to do the things we do today, like this, unlike the unfortunate people in other "third-world" countries. They die so we can live on in the freedom that our fore-fathers worked hard for.
35. Stop Illegal immigration into the US
September 30, 2006
This petition is to try and do something about the flow of illegal immigrants into the United State of America.
Immigration has left us with an unprotected border and suppressed wages throughout the entirety of our nation.
Between 12 and 20 million illegal immigrants are estimated to be living in the United States; due to the nature of illegal immigration, the exact number is unknown. The majority of the illegal immigrants are from Latin America. Illegal immigration has been a longstanding issue in the United States, creating immense controversy. Harvard University economist George J. Borjas explains that the controversy centers around the "huge redistribution [of wealth] away from [unskilled American] workers to [American employers] who use immigrants."
In 2007, President Bush called for Congress to endorse his guest worker proposal, stating that illegal immigrants took jobs that Americans would not take. The Pew Hispanic Center notes that while the number of legal immigrants (including LPRs, refugees, and asylees) arriving has not varied substantially since the 1980s, the number of illegal aliens has increased dramatically and, since the mid 1990s, has surpassed the number of legal immigrants. Penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants range from $2,000-$10,000 and up to six months' imprisonment.
Political groups like Americans for Legal Immigration PAC have been formed to fight what they perceive as the threat of illegal immigration by demanding that the US enforce immigration laws and secure the borders. Several counties throughout the United States have chosen to deputize police officers as immigration officials.
36. Cancel academic degrees issued by Polish communist government
The Russian occupational state Polish People Republic was controlling Polish academia until 1994 first free election.
This petition is to cancel all academic degrees issued by the communist goverment issued until then.
37. Stop Pornography - Hardcore Porn & Softcore Porn - Altogether
May 21, 2005
To totally ban pornography of every form. On television, in magazines, and on the Internet. Hardcore porn, softcore porn, lolita porn and all other forms of porn should be banned.
The purchase and free and clear distribution of pornographic material from a convenient store on the corner of any American city, to the adult book stores easily tucked away in any urban area of America, should be banned.
This type of material is not only immoral but it is one of the many factors that helps benefit sexual exploitation world wide.
38. Justice for Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith in Montgomery, Alabama
May 8, 2005
Petition for Pardon
We are circulating a petition to have criminal records permanently removed on three women that were illegaly arrested, jailed, charged, and fined for refusing to give up there seats on a city bus and stand so white riders could sit. Those women were Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith-Ware, and Rosa Parks. Ms. Colvin and Mrs. Smith- were also involved in the civil rights case, Browder vs. Gayle, the case that desegregated buses in Montgomery, Al. in 1956. Mrs. Parks arrest helped cement black riders to begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1900, a Montgomery city ordinance (overturned) December 21, 1956 was passed to segregate passengers by race. Conductors were given the power to assign seats to accomplish that purpose, however, no passengers would be required to move or give up their seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available.
Ms.Colvin, Ms. Smith and Mrs. Parks were seating in the section reserved for colored passengers when they were told by white bus drivers to give up their seats for white passengers. They refused and were arrested. They were clearly within their rights and their actions sparked a 381-day boycott of Montgomery's City Line buses. Research from my documentary about the legal protest: Rivers of Change: The Story of Five Unheralded Women and Their Struggle for Justice and Dignity in Montgomery© revealed that white bus drivers broke the law by having those women arrested.
After their arrest, Ms. Colvin, and Ms. Smith joined Mrs. Aurelia Browder and Mrs. Sue McDonald as plaintiffs in federal court to challenge the constitutionality of segregated seating on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and America. They were represented by Montgomery Improvement Association lawyers, Charles Langford and Fred Gray, Sr. The case was a direct attack on Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of 1896, which empowered states to enact racial segregation ordinances. A 3 judge federal panel ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, citing that Montgomery and Alabama's segregation laws violated their 14th amendment rights of "due process and equal justice under the law". The Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the federal court in December 1956 and totally reversed the Plessy ruling of 1896. It was the victory of the plaintiffs (legal protest) aided by the boycott (social protest) that brought an end to the boycott and segregated seating. Because of a legal technicality, Mrs. Parks was not a plaintiff in the federal civil rights lawsuit.
The world knows of Dr. Martin Luther King and Mrs. Parks, but few know about the people that propelled them to such fame and recognition.
We are not asking the Mayor to forgive them for their actions-we honor them for taking a stand, what we are asking for is that he recognize that the
drivers who committed the criminal acts against the women.
39. Send Michael Moore to France
November 09, 2004
Michael Moore is poisoning the US with his propaganda and needs to leave.
He has no respect for our president or our troops.
40. ADULT CRIMES - ADULT PUNISHMENTS (IN MEMORY OF SHILA BIGDELY)
FINALLY, WE MANAGED TO SAY FAREWELL TO OUR DEAR SHILA. WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL FUNERAL SERVICE ON FRIDAY THE 13TH AUGUST 2004 LED BY REV. CAMPBELL BUT THE FINAL DAY WAS ON MONDAY 16TH AUGUST, SHILA WAS CREMATED AT SAN PEDRO CREMATORIO AND MAY SHE REST IN PEACE WHEREVER SHE IS AND MAY ANGELS BE WITH HER.
IT WAS A SAD DAY BUT SHE WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED AND LOVED. BUT OUR FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IS NOT OVER YET WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES AND SUPPORTS. PLEASE DO SIGN IN AS THIS BATTLE IS NOT ONLY FOR SHILA BUT FOR OUR OTHER CHILDREN AS WELL.
OUR 13 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED AND RAPED ON THE 02.O4.2004. A 14 YEAR OLD BOY NAMED TOBIAS HAS BEEN CHARGED. THE TRIAL WAS ON THE 2ND AND 5TH JULY. OUR DAUGHTER HAS STILL NOT PUT TO REST AND A PROPER BURIAL(GOD BLESS HER SOUL AND MAY SHE REST IN PEACE WHEREVER SHE IS) SINCE SHE'S STILL IN THE MORGUE SINCE THE DAY SHE WAS FOUND DEAD.
SENTENCE IS ONLY 4 YEARS IN SPAIN. WE HAD JUST MOVED FROM NORWAY TO SPAIN LAST AUGUST TO START A NEW LIFE. WE'RE AGAINST THE SENTENCE AS IT IS TOO MILD FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO OUR GIRL.
WE BELIEVE THAT ADULT CRIMES DESERVE ADULT PUNISHMENTS. WE WANT TO STOP MORE CRIMES COMMITTED BY CHILDREN. WELL, THE OUTCOME OF THE TRIAL WAS HE GETS ONLY THE MAX 4years. WHY? COZ HE'S A JUVENILE.
A KILLER IS A KILLER NO MATTER WHAT AGE THEY ARE. THAT'S WHY WE'RE CAMPAIGNING FOR A CHANGE OF JUVENILE LAW IN SPAIN. FOR PREMEDITATED CRIMES WHICH WERE 2 RAPES AND MURDER. THAT WAS THE VERDICT WE GOT A FEW DAYS AGO.
THAT'S NOT JUSTICE.
WE NEED GLOBAL DNA DATABASE FOR SEX CRIMES. NOT ANOTHER TONY KING OR FRANCISCO ANTES OR DUTROUX.
CAMBIAR LA LEY DE MENOR - 4 AÑOS NO SON JUSTICIA. NO BASTANTE.
41. Legislation Against Chaining and Penning Dogs
Dogs Deserve Better Than A Life On Chains or In Pens! Dogs Deserve Better is an ASPCA award-winning nonprofit education / legislation / rescue organization dedicated to freeing the chained or penned dogs and bringing them into the family home and the family's hearts.
The organization has launched several national awareness campaigns to give a voice to the dogs who have been chained or penned outside to experience not only the effects of loneliness, boredom, parasites, and lack of food, water, exercise, and adequate shelter, but also the tragic effects of intense cold, numbing wind, frozen water, and blowing snow during the winter as well as the smothering heat, humidity, and rain or drought during the summer. Regardless of breed or size, there is no such thing as an "outside dog." This is a choice that the human has made for the dog, a choice that a dog, as a pack animal, would never make for himself.
Forcing a dog to live outside exposes him to psychological difficulties, the possibility of animal or human attacks, and the will to venture beyond the chain or pen, as well as to developing territorial and acting-out behaviors such as barking, jumping, and biting. Additionally, animals who live away from the family experience feelings of loneliness due to sporadic and brief affection and socialization.
Chaining or penning dogs is not only an animal issue, it is a public safety concern, as well. Animal behaviorists and animal care professionals acknowledge that chaining creates aggressive behavior in dogs. The Humane Society of the United States indicates that a chained or penned dog is 2.5 times more likely to attack than a dog who is living indoors. Additionally, a study cited by National Animal Control News (March/April 2004) concluded that dogs who have been chained or tethered for more than eight hours per day are three times more likely to bite their caretakers than if they had not been chained.
From October 2003 - April 2004, in the United States alone, there have been 10 serious injuries or fatal attacks caused by chained dogs. Four of those attacks occured in April 2004.
This petition serves the dogs who have been chained or penned FOR LIFE - not those who have been allowed outside to enjoy the good weather, to do "their business," or play.
This petition will be presented to the local and state legislature as well as to the President of the United States in an effort to enact laws against chaining and penning dogs. It can be made available to any individual who wishes to send it to their local lawmakers.
42. Support of the 108TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1272. Bill
Update: October 15, 2005
This petition is now closed. Thanks to all supporters and to those who are now supporting the Stop Corporate Killing Campaign located at http://www.nycosh.org/environment_wtc/GulfCoast/NewOrleans10-6-05letter.htm.
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A resolution in support of 108TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1272. To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to modify the provisions relating to citations and penalties.
Since 1982, approximately 170,000 workers have died due to workplace fatalities. Many of these workers died due to disregard for worker safety on the part of the employer. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, OSHA has the right to refer such cases of employer misconduct to the U.S. Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
The facts are that since 1982, only 81 out of 170,000 workplace deaths have resulted in convictions, only 16 of which involved jail time.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act defines an employer's reckless disregard for safety resulting in the death of a worker as a misdemeanor, punishable by only a maximum of six months in jail.
43. Gays in America!
Feb 17, 2004
Many places in this country don't allow gay marriages. It's not a big deal. People are living the way they wanna live! Isnt that freedom!?!?! I thought we lived in the United States?? So why is the government banning gay marriages ? That isnt freedom!! Thats Descrimination! Thats like saying people of opposite races cannot wed.
Its all the same! We are all our own person! Why should the government be able to descriminate against homosexuals? It goes against what the United States really stands for. They havent given us the same rights as everyone else. They are singling us out. And destroying our legal rights as Americans. We have freedom of religion. There is no freedom of sexuality.
If someone decides to choose the the path of being a homosexual it makes them No different then anyother person walking the streets today. A persons choice of sexuallity is NO ONES business but their own.
They should be the ones to choose whom they spend the rest of thier life with.
44. Ban The Sale of Animals In Pet Shops
February 4, 2004
Most puppies and kittens sold in pet shops are bred in 'mills' where dogs and cats are kept in sub-standard conditions and continually bred until they die.
Cute puppies and kittens displayed in pet shops cause impulse purchases of animals who are then dumped when people realise the time, cost and responsibility of caring for a pet. The RSPCA received approximately 133,000 abandoned in 2002/03, and this figure is at least doubled when the many overcrowded animal shelters all over Australia are factored in to the equation.