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1. Scrap or revise the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901 
The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of 1901 is a foundation document enacted by the British Parliament.
Only 8 referendums have been successful in over the 110 years the Constitution has operated. The Constitution today had been marginalized by legislative superiority.
[R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers Society of Australia (1955-56) 94 CLR 254; (1956-57) 95 CLR 529; (1957) AC 288]
The Constitution contains may archaic and incompatible sections to Common and Natural laws.
2. Parksville NY Revitalization & Planned Community
Four years ago, a group of concerned citizens formed the Parksville Priorities Committee (PPC), a not-for-profit organization interested in revitalizing the hamlet of Parksville. Parksville was once one of the most populated and thriving communities in the Catskills.
It has since suffered severe economic downturns to the point that only a few businesses and residents remain. Sullivan County has been depressed for a long time as well. We believe that along with the efforts of many citizens of Sullivan County, as well as many other concerned individuals and organizations throughout New York State, that we can revitalize Parksville with the support and voices of those that want to make a change in Sullivan County.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has budgeted over $90 million, re-routing the highway around Parksville. The highway initiated in the 1950's ran through Parksville, dividing the hamlet, making it unwalkable and difficult to stop and enjoy.
Because the new highway construction now bypasses the hamlet, it opens the opportunity to restore the community. The DOT has created a beautiful exit 98 off of Route 17, soon to be Interstate 86, an easy-off, easy-on exit, and a grand, inviting presentation to Main Street, Parksville, and its historic pharmacy building on the corner of Main Street and Short Avenue. The Department plans to beautify with landscaping and street restorations. The PPC has applied for grants to restore lighting, curb appeal and to develop a park.
There is growing interest in Parksville's developments, but we need your voice to support the PPC. The PPC developed a website http://www.parksvilleny.org where you can see their mission statement. The plan is to make Parksville the first planned community in Sullivan County, a walkable hamlet with stores, bank, grocery, pharmacy, medical offices, clothing stores, etc., as it used to be.
Please sign this petition to show your support for a planned community in Parksville in a concerted effort to assist in the re-growth of Sullivan County.
3. Liberty Templemans Memorial Artwork
In 2010, Springbank School in Northland, New Zealand raised $3800 with an event to create an artwork for a local student who was murdered in 2008 (Liberty Templeman). The artwork was to be dedicated as a memorial for the young student. However the local community board has refused to let the artwork, (a beautiful oval glass art) to be placed in the local Public Library.
If no place is found in kerikeri for the memorial, then it will be sent either down to Auckland or to the UK Where Libby and her family came from.
We Students find this an unfair process as a lot of work was put in for this event and having the memorial sent away and is never seen by the local public because of a (So called) community board would be unfair.
This petition was designed to get the local community board to review and change its decision and keep the memorial in its right place. In Kerikeri.
4. Defend Constitutional Government
According to the Oath of Office (Charter Section 3.6), every elected public servant swears to “defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina” and to faithfully perform their duties of the offices they were entering, “so help me, God.”
When this Oath of Office is violated by public servants, it is the Right of the People to petition for a redress of grievances and to hold those in the public trust accountable to their actions and behaviors in the course of executing their sworn duties. Nevertheless, public recourse cannot be exercised for any “light and transient causes”; rather, demonstrated abuses, of power not delegated, detrimental to the rule of law, endangering the People to even further gross encroachments against their “unalienable Rights” to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”, must therefore be delineated as evidence of just cause.
1. Session Law 2009-257, Senate Bill 570, Section 3.2 – The Mayor was denied as the “Official head of the Town government” to “preside at all meetings of the Town Council” and the Deputy Sheriff was illegally ordered to escort him out of the facility – which was not executed. ( http://www.unioncountyweekly.com/news/2011/07/indian-trail-selects-stanton-to-fill-hullinger%E2%80%99s-term/ “Town Council excludes mayor from interview process”)
2. NC General Statute 132-6, Inspection and Examination of Records – Records were secreted and/or tampered with, pertaining to alleged embezzlement up to $400,000 (1999-2006); Records were not duly forthcoming when formally requested by the Mayor, who as a citizen, was also denied access. (http://johnquinnforthepeople.com/myblogs/?p=609; )
3. NC General Statute 143-318.11(a)(6), Closed Sessions – Council members illegally engaged in closed-door discussion (July 14, 2009) regarding the Mayor for questions of character, which must be addressed in Open Session. (Motion To Approve Agenda http://indiantrail.granicus.com MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=222)
4. Contempt & Disregard Toward Indian Trail Citizens/Denied Equal Representation
Arbitrarily disbanded volunteer citizen boards (Open Letter to the Indian Trail Town Council, http://www.villagescribeonline.com/?s=schallenkamp)
Developer/PAC Influence/Preferential Treatment (Indian Trail PAC Candidates: The Developers' Trojan Horse, http://www.villagescribeonline.com/?s=schallenkamp)
Four council members boycotted a duly announced public budget meeting on May 26, 2010, with a full house in attendance (Council Ignores Mayor's Meeting Call, Indian Trail Trader, 5/9/2010 – photos included; http://www.lowertaxesforit.org/indiantrailtrader.html)
Council members engaged in hostile and derogatory comments toward concerned citizens via official Town Hall email communication; one even implied that a 42 year Veteran was a “pig”(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indian-Trail-Town-Council/160464680711039).
Another woman dead. Do we really value the life of our citizens?
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/dead-woman-feared-for-her-safety-family-says-20
http://canadacarry.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?60-Canadian-Homicides-and-Injurious-Assaults
Our right to keep and bear arms in our own or the country's defense comes from exactly the same place as the American one -- English Common Law, the English Bill of Rights 1689, the writings of Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries on English Law, and others. All these laws (and indeed the full body of English Law), became part of Canadian law on our Confederation in 1867 with the affirmation of the British North America (BNA) Act.
6. Moral Declaration of Independence
We are declaring a moral separation from the current ruling administration and the policies it is currently enacting which is diminishing our liberties.
Moral Declaration simply means:
- Declaring our willingness and our ability to no longer support the current administrations decisions.
- Asserting our stance under ‘Redress of Grievances’.
- Affirming that in good faith and trust-
- We are done giving them moral support!
• We are presenting the new Moral Declaration of Independence with grievances in accordance with the United States Constitution and current U.S. Code of Law.
• We openly recognize that we have shared the intent and the spirit of the original Declaration of Independence.
• The original document was a declaration of war; however, at this time that is not the direction that America can withstand.
• Its strength and spirit is as viable today as when first written. (We intentionally utilized much of the original writings.)
• This document, as a petition with signatures will be taken to and registered in Washington D.C.
The cornerstone of our constitutional Republic has been the Declaration of Independence. The men who founded this great nation knew that those who rule must be of the character that recognizes that we will all stand before the God of heaven and be held accountable. These founders also knew that the ruling class often forgets this fact. We have been given the right to reset to the original intent of this founding document.
Now is the time… for all patriotic citizens to stand up and be counted.
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12).
7. Freedom of Choice in Healthcare
The reason for outrageous medical cost in America is simple: Prohibitive Regulation = Prohibitive Cost.
Severe licensing restrictions orchestrated by doctors and enacted by legislators to limit competition have created a critical artificial shortage of doctors; and additional ludicrous, stifling regulation of all aspects of the medical industry has pushed the cost of medical services well beyond the financial means of much of the population.
8. The Florida Open Carry Initiative
Throughout our history, the ability to be armed for self defense has been essential to our liberty. Today, the Florida state legislators have stripped the people of the ability to openly carry arms. This policy is inconsistent with that of a free society. The elimination of an open carry arms policy leads to corruption, the loss of liberty, and to a state of perpetual tyranny.
Here are a few thoughts that our forefathers left us with in regards to a well armed people.
“The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-Thomas Jefferson
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.”
-George Washington
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
-Thomas Jefferson
A free people ought to be armed."
- George Washington
“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them” .
-George Mason
9. A Call for the States to do Their Duty!
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Did you know it is the CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY of your state to protect your right and liberties? We are in EMERGENCY MODE now! Washington is not listening to us, it is time our state governments earn their keep.
Sign this petition, then print it and deliver it personally, by email, by fax, by petition and any other way you can to your state legislators. Tell everyone you know to do the same.
10. Citizens Of Colorado Petition Against Federal Intrusion
Public Officials must take and Oath of Office in support of the U.S. Constitution and Colorado State Constitution an guarantee a Republican form of government.
Article X of the U. S. Constitution states "the power not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People."
11. Declaration Of Health Care Independence
The Health Care Bill is NOT dead. Make your mark in history and in the fight to secure Liberty for our children and grandchildren by signing this petition which we will give directly to Representative Michelle Bachmann to be used in congress as she continues to fight for our Liberty.
In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution, We the People reject the imposition upon us of a new, Washington-controlled system of government-run health care. We demand Constitutional protection of the right to make our own health decisions and our own health care choices free of government denials, bureaucratic red-tape, and greater intergenerational debt. A Washington takeover of American health care will…
** Deny fundamental personal and economic liberties and indisputably violate the Principle of Limited Government as established by the Constitution;
** Impose increased costs and taxes upon individuals, families, and businesses, as well as taxpayers at the federal, state, and local levels;
** Irreparably cripple the American economy, at the cost of jobs, businesses, productivity, and quality of life;
** Create an inescapable new tax by imposing individual and employer mandates;
** Institutionalize a massive, ever-expanding federal bureaucracy that is impersonal and impractical;
** Empower bureaucrats to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, undermine the quality of care, limit choice, and increase the cost of health care.
12. Support zoning for expansion of community facilities by New Hope United Church of Christ
The City od Norfolk is trying to rezone property located at 115 E. Liberty Street. The property is currently zoned as Commercial and they are trying to rezone it to Residential for the purpose of building eight (8) single family homes.
The rezoning of this property will prevent the future expansion of New Hope United Church of Christ.
The practice of slavery has plagued the human species for over 5,000 years. Yet here in the 21st century, slavery is more prevalent than ever before with an estimated 27 million people enslaved worldwide.
Even in the U.S slavery continues today. The U.S government estimates 14000-18000 people are trafficked into the U.S annually and put into some form of modern day slavery.
14. Repeal the 1943 Current Payment Tax Act
Have you ever heard of the 1943 Current Payment Tax Act? Have you ever had taxes withheld from your paycheck? The 1943 Current Payment Tax Act (CPTA) is the law that allows our government to do that. With this law our government gets paid before we do! Prior to this law people paid their taxes once a year but the taxes due for the present year were paid the following year. For example the taxes someone owes for 2009 before this law was passed would be paid in 2010. Can you imagine what it would do for our economy if you put the money you owed for taxes in the bank and earned interest on it for a year?
The Current Payment Tax Act was passed for the benefit of our government. Automatic withholding was passed so that taxpayers would pay their taxes on time. It had been a plan of how our Treasury Department wanted our taxes to be collected ever since the Civil War. An automatic withholding system was also promoted as a way to help make the Federal income tax permanent. By 1943 the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the income tax had only been around for thirty years. The BIR, created in 1913 with the ratification of the XVI Amendment to our Constitution, opposed the plan for the automatic withholding of taxes.
What has happened to our government since the 1943 Current Payment Tax Act was passed? Our government has grown! Why has it grown? When a business has an unending flow of money it grows. The automatic withholding of taxes from our paychecks has created an unending flow of money to our government. No wonder our government has grown! How can we stop this? Your signing this petition will help. Please sign it today!
15. Halt or Ban the One World Government
Here;s the list of reasons:
1. Moral police would imprison and criminalize many innocent people because the world government or world court is offended by innocent peoples beliefs and actions.
2. If the world government became compromised there could be no revolution because the whole worlds guns and weapons would be confiscated therefore the whole world could become controlled in a dictatorship or cu-da-ta. That logic basically means a New World Order a whole world under control of a very few moral mongers and powerlord elites.
3. Many cultures will be destroyed because the moral police might decide certain normal cultures are immoral and may ban it worldwide therefore cultural persecution is legal worldwide.
4. Many religions will be destroyed because the moral lords might consider a certain religion to be immoral or has been tied up into another religion or is worshipped in a religion and wants to bar others for their own selfish cults.
5. The One World Government will wreck world/state sovereignty and end peoples loyalty to any country, and it also means that freedom and liberty may be at large risk and the start of a totalitarian society.
6. A One World Government will decide the laws of all and nobody could fight it because guns would be banned and they can't run from the world police either so bad laws would be enforced worldwide and no choice to be in a country you agree with.
7. There's no guarantee that there will be no corruption in this world government system because countries always fall and dictators always rise throughout history, and so what makes people think a One World Government will be any solution to any problem.
8. The rights of going to another country will be taken and there will be no escaping or fighting the system thats forced upon you.
9. Dirty, underhanded, and sneaky tactics have been used to bring fourth this One World Government and so the World Governance proposal has never been honest and so this would wreck all hopes of a better democracy worldwide.
10. This World Government would wreck everything our fore fathers and other liberty following, freedom supporting, patriots worldwide and would destroy all the work they have done for our country even though they made a few mistakes such as slavery we don't need to destroy the progress we have made with ending slavery forever.
11. A World Government may mean personal enslavement and the end to establishing our own identities while forcing world citizens to submit to world authority and invest their identity in this global government.
12. They would have control of food supplies and natural resources/minerals worldwide and can restrict or even deny food to hungry people.
13. The World Government will be run by the very few while billions will be forced to submit to the opinions and law making decisions of the very super few (No majority of people approval), and even if the majority approved of a decision it would be a threat to minorities of people throughout the world and would deny their personal rights and freedoms.
16. Constitutional Homeland Security
The Petitions are a very important part of the Committees of Safety. With a large number of signed petitions, we will be petitioning our State legislators to sponsor and vote for State statutes that will provide for a constitutional system of security and defense for a free State while also providing for a constitutional sound monetary system.
Our State legislators and Governors need to know that a large number of the People are in favor of these statutes and will volunteer when the statutes are enacted. They also need to know that, We the People, will support them (with our votes and money) when they sponsor and vote for these constitutional statutes. They will find it unnecessary to take money from "special interest lobbyists", because they will have the support from We the People.
They will be upholding their sworn oath, to support and defend the Constitution, securing our Rights and provide for the general Welfare of the People.
17. Bring Home The Politicians!
We, hereby, demand and will pursue the relocation of all US Representatives and Senators to spend no less than 75% of their time in elected office in our State Capitals to telecommute via secured phone, fax, email, and web conference with their federal counterparts.
On the Local level, State Representatives and Senators will be relocated to spend no less than 75% of their time in elected office in the City Halls or Court Houses of our Districts to likewise telecommute with their state counterparts.
This will essentially “embed” politicians among the people they’re supposed to represent allowing them to always be informed with our communities’ positions on each issue and be within close reach to voice our opposition when necessary.
• Restores Balance of Power - Citizens are put back in charge of this country.
• Nonpartisan - This plan favors no political party since all need to be reigned in.
• Anti-Lobbying - Lobbyists spend most of their budget on travel expenses.
• Reduce Corruption - Citizens/Local Media resume their role as government watch dog.
• Cost Effective - The cost of upgrading state and local facilities for this plan is dwarfed by the savings from stopping out of control government spending.
• National Security - Any natural disaster or assault on DC would be far less catastrophic because it would be taking down only one server on a grid of 51.
18. Open letter to Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura
WE the American conservative and freedom loving voters are sick and tired of all the lies and corrupt politics that have been going on in this country for so long. We need and demand an honest Politician to be elected that has Americas best interests at heart and is willing to defend, honor, and uphold the United States Constitution regardless of the cost, or the general popularity.
We believe that based on the 20 year voting record of Dr. Ron Paul, and the Independent governorship of Jessie Ventura, that these two statesman would give us back honesty and virtue to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of these United States.
19. Support the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement
Cuban students and young professionals said on November 27, 2007 that they had collected 5,000 signatures petitioning the Cuban government to allow universities that would operate independently of the state while encouraging freedom of speech.
Supporters of the University Students Without Borders Project want Cuba's communist government to tolerate autonomous colleges and also reopen Havana's Catholic University of Santo Tomas de Villanueva, which authorities shuttered in 1961, two years after Fidel Castro's revolution toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista.
"We are promoting a culture of free thinking despite the repression and fear hanging over us," said Nestor Rodriguez, who helped organize the petition drive with his brother Rolando. Both are members of the Cuban Youth for Democracy Movement.
The purpose of this petition is to demonstrate our support for both this movement and project.
20. SAY NO TO OSHA AMMUNITION REGULATIONS
NOTICE: Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032 IS DEAD 16 July, 2007
NRA REPORTS that
"Labor Department Announces It Will Revise Overreaching OSHA Explosives Rule"
DETAILS AT : http://www.nraila.org/CurrentLegislation/Read.aspx?ID=3162
This PETITION shall be closed at 24:00 hrs. 17 July 2007:
"The public comment website for the proposed rule is no longer accessible. The Labor Department will publish a notice in the July 17 Federal Register announcing that a new rule proposal will soon be drafted for public comment. Needless to say, the NRA monitors proposed federal regulations to head off this kind of overreach, and will be alert for OSHA’s next draft."
Even though OSHA-2007-0032 is at room temperature, I am still going to mail OSHA a copy.
Job well done my fellow AMERICANS.
God Bless you all, our Troops, and the USA!
John
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Original info located at http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3145
AND
http://www.nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?PRloc=common/PR/&PR=BP070207.cfm
Proposed “Safety” Regulations Would Dry Up Ammunition Sales
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed new rules that would have a dramatic effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading components such as primers or black and smokeless powder. The proposed rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder and primers as “explosives.” Among many other provisions, the proposed rule would:
*Prohibit possession of firearms in commercial “facilities containing explosives”—an obvious problem for your local gun store.
*Require evacuation of all “facilities containing explosives”—even your local Wal-Mart—during any electrical storm. *
*Prohibit smoking within 50 feet of “facilities containing explosives.”
It’s important to remember this is only a proposed rule right now, so there’s still time for concerned citizens to speak out before OSHA issues its final rule. The National Rifle Association, National Shooting Sports Foundation, and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute will all be commenting on these proposed regulations, based on the severe effect these regulations (if finalized) would have on the availability of ammunition and reloading supplies to safe and responsible shooters.
The public comment period was originally scheduled to end July 12 but has been extended sixty (60) days until September 10, 2007.
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS DIRECTLY TO OSHA
To file your own comment, or to learn more about the OSHA proposal, click here or go to http://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket Number OSHA-2007-0032.
You can read OSHA’s proposal via the NRA link above.
By FAX: (202) 693–1648
RE: OSHA Docket Office Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032 (Explosives—Proposed Rule)
By Snail Mail
RE: OSHA Docket Office Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032 (Explosives—Proposed Rule)
U.S. Department of Labor
Room N-2625 200 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20210
You must include three copies when sending via mail.
NOTICE TO THE SIGNERS: 15 July 15:03 EST.
I had been asked what I intend to do with the petition. It is my intention to to send a hard copy of the petition as part of a public comment to OSHA. The only information that will be included is what any internet user who opens the petition page http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/say-no-to-osha-ammunition-regulations.html can view. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please submit your comments directly to OSHA.
A petition of the American people, declaring our intent to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to work within the lawful Constitutional framework to hold all in conspiracy against us accountable for their crimes.
22. Vote for Global Peace and become a Global Citizen
Global Citizens for Peace http://www.globalcitizensforpeace.com/ is a Global alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a world of peace in which we all live in freedom, harmony, cooperation and co-prosperity.
The vision of Global Citizens for Peace is to contribute towards the creation of a Planetary Peace Culture looking to life and common humanism as the core values for a sustainable society.
We have, over the millennia, translated ourselves from "oneness to aloneness". This acquired state of aloneness and alienation causes considerable discomfort. The truth is that all life on the planet is connected. GCFP attempts to understand our predicament and illuminate our future potential.
We have come together as concerned Global citizens realizing that with increasing Global population requiring more and more resources, with tremendous inequality of distribution, our planet is reaching breaking point in terms of economic and ecological crises.
This is having profound social and cultural effects. We require urgent ecological, social, economic and political solutions to problems which affect billions of people if we are to survive sustainably.
The Global Citizens For Peace aims to contribute towards this next great global step - The Final Frontier, acknowledging the common ground of humanity and our connectedness with all life.
Humankind has reached a state of development in which old modes of thinking and behaving threaten to destroy our planet. A substantially new manner of thinking is required if Humankind is to survive.
The essence of a sustainable future lies in the creation of a Transnational Peace Culture in which the quality of life of the individual Human Being and their positive contribution to society is paramount.
The Transnational Peace Culture
Is life affirming and transcends national and regional barriers
Is based on the deepest values of humanity;
Is the essence of human rights and existence;
Expresses the oneness of all humanity.
You also have the opportunity to give us your vision of the future in no more than 200 words in the comment on target section.We will publish the collated visions on our website www.globalcitizensforpeace.com and in a book.
Each Global Peace Representative will receive:
A Citation http://www.newparadigmjournal.com/May2007/gcfp.htm
The GCFP newsletter
Access to GCFP Google Net Discussion Group , tele-conferencing- and a range of other benefits which will be added over time.
23. Make The California Cadet Corps. Count For P.E. Credets
The reson the Californai Cadet Corps. should count for high school P.E. credets is that, in this group of cadets does more phicical excersize then in a regular P.E. class.
Also The rest of the 5th bergade like, Yosimite and Madera High School both count for High School P.E. credets. There for at liberty High School the California Cadet Corps should be counted as an elective and as a P.E. class.
24. Petition to control salary and retirement of congressional leaders
Public knowledge, Congress votes on yearly salary increases and enhanced lifetime retirement for themselves, but they are unwilling to do anything for the American workers who have lost a majority if not all of their retirement.
Congress gets their retirement, regardless of length (or lack thereof) of service or terms served.
25. Allow More Visible Piercings in US Public Schools
January 26, 2006
I have ten piercings total, but they won't let me wear them in school. I am 17. I also have three tattoos but that is besides the point.
Anyway, we need to express our individuality more and they are suppressing our ability to do so.
26. Liberty X to perform at Pride event
Big Gay Out has decided (along with Liberty x) that they should not perform at this years event due to a mis-quote by a member of Liberty x. The member was quoted as saying something homophobic (a copy of what was said and her reply, can be found on G-A-Y.co.uk)
27. Petition to Send back the Statue!
Congratulations on your recent (11 March '03) success in removing the seditious moniker, "French," from the House cafeteria's menu listings of French Fries and French Toast. We are certain that "Freedom" Fries and "Freedom" Toast will taste much better. However, we feel your gesture is too timid and does not go far enough in stating our country's displeasure with our so-called ally, France.
28. Bring Back Fall Break at Liberty University!
Last semester, Liberty University took out Fall Break and added it on to Thanksgiving. As a result, students must now go three months without any kind of break in the routine. We are feeling burned out and unable to do the work we would normally be capable of. Thanksgiving is only a month away from Christmas and we would normally have four days. That's not much time to see a family, but they can make up for it at Christmastime. We need to bring Fall Break back so we can get some rest and refreshment. Liberty tortures us enough already; why should it also extend to this?
29. Get BuffBlackBoy to update his Story
Dear BBB, we really LOVED your post about that Japanese chick that came over...
However we'd REALLY love it if you could update us...Seeing as to how there were no updates I took the liberty to make this petition because EVERYONE wants to know what is happening (almost like the GOOD soap opera...)
So from me, ammar85 and the rest of the boards
PLEASE UPDATE US!! We promise no Spam if your thread too!
I.Assisted suicide is not murder.
A.Murder can be considered ending another person's life without consent, with forethought, with interference of the natural process of death, and with the intent to do harm.
B.Assisted suicide does not fit the definition of murder.
1.Assisted suicide requires consent and a fifteen-day waiting period and the prognosis must be six months in Oregon.
2.Forethought is present when conducting assisted suicide, but it is also present when withdrawing futile treatment.
3.Both assisted suicide and futile treatment interfere with the natural process of death, though one is passive and the other is active, both are forms of euthanasia.
a.Life support prolongs life.
b.Assisted suicide shortens life.
4.When conducting assisted suicide, good intentions of relieving pain are present.
5.Furthermore, the patient, not the doctor, ends the life.
II. Terminally ill patients should be given the option of assisted suicide.
A. Patients have a "natural right," granted in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prevents states from depriving "any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law." Autonomy is important to individuals in the U.S.
B. Preserving life, an interest of the state, is no longer an interest of a terminally ill patient who is in intense pain and wishes to die.
C. A quote from an opponent of assisted suicide, Justice Stevens: "In my judgment
it is clear that [the states'] so-called 'unqualified interest in the preservation of human life'
is not itself sufficient to outweigh the interest in liberty that may justify the only possible means of preserving a dying patient's dignity and alleviating her intolerable suffering."
Assisted suicide is not a bad thing, in fact, it is very good thing. Nobody should be forced to live or die against his or her individual will. I am not asking you to perform assisted suicide or to have assisted suicide performed on you. I am asking that you sign this petition so that someone who is terminally ill and desperately wants and needs to end his or her own life is not prevented from doing so. When you sign this petition, you will be taking part in the relief of an enormous amount of pain and suffering in the state of Iowa.
