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This rejection statement was avoid from Supreme court of USA. and was only in the borders of California. The supporters of Prop 8 has vowed to appeal.

Instead of expanding the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians, the court based its decision on a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court precedent that said a majority may not take away a minority’s rights without legitimate reasons.

“Proposition 8 operates with no apparent purpose but to impose on gays and lesbians, through the public law, a majority’s private disapproval of them and their relationships,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote for the court.

This statement wont take effect immediately because prop 8 supporters have a week to appeal in court and 90 days to file a petition to supreme court for review.

the ruling presented “the most difficult set of facts” possible for ProtectMarriage because the decision “so squarely fits” the high court’s precedent in Evans vs. Romer, the case that struck down the Colorado measure. said the lawyer David Boies.

ACTA is of course, not a bill like SOPA, but an international trade agreement that sets standards for the enforcement of intellectual property rights.  Unlike SOPA, the focus of ACTA is enforcement of larger-scale copyright infringements.  So while it is not a law that says who can and who can’t be defined as theives of intellectual property, it encourages those that sign it to create such laws, and crack down harder on those who break them.

Surely if the United States had signed such an agreement we would have heard about it, right?  Nope.  The United States signed ACTA on it’s day of birth, on October 1, 2011.  Citizens were not informed of this not because of some distraction such as SOPA or the Occupy Protests, but because the various governments that signed it decided it was better to keep it a secret.  It was only during the turbulence of SOPA when ACTA was exposed to the majority of the citizens of the countries who signed the agreement.  Some other governments who have also signed include Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and 22 members of the European Union.

Protests have already sprung up across the globe, with the most fierce gatherings in Europe.  This also comes to show why internet activists are still so up in arms about the copyright issues with protests such as Black March.

However, she thought, it’s cheaper than paying to park. And it will save the hassle with the traffic.

She didn’t have to wait long for a tram to come. And though there were a lot of people on the platform she managed to find a double seat to herself. She generally marvelled at how selfish some people travelling alone could be. They would take up a double seat and later couples who wanted to travel together had to sit separately. But of course it was different for her. She was Miss Pringle, now retired, but formerly the respected teacher of thousands, yes thousands of infant school children over the years.

It wasn’t the best seat. It was rather near the wibbly wobbly one that was in the bend in the tram. The bar on the window spoilt her view. If she had to travel by tram, she liked a window seat with a good open view of people’s back gardens. Her very favourite seat was behind the driver; it made her feel as if she was driving the tram.

It must be all those years of teaching the little ones, she thought. It must have rubbed off.      

At Whitefield a couple with a young daughter got on. They stood near the door well.

“Why don’t you go and sit next to that lady?” said the father.

Don’t you dare, thought Miss Pringle. She shot the little girl one of her school teacher looks.

The little girl buried her head in her father’s arm.

At Prestwich another young family got on.

“There’s a seat next to that lady,” said the mother.

The little boy shook his head and turned his back on Miss Pringle.

Quite right, too, she thought. I ain’t no lady. It was funny how when she’d been a girl children were expected to get up from their seats and let grown-ups sit down.  Nowadays it was all about the children. Well, I’m not budging, she thought. I’m over 60 now.

She was aware of a young man sitting behind her on the wibbly wobbly seat. Well you could hardly ignore him He was constantly on his mobile and when he wasn’t making or receiving a call, he was exchanging texts with someone or playing some noisy game.

It’s an intrusion into our thoughts, Miss Pringle said to herself. And if he was one of my exes I’d give him what far. So selfish!

The young man also had his feet on the other single seat opposite his own.

Disgraceful, thought Miss Pringle.

At Crumpsall a third family got on, an extended one this time. Hindus, Miss Pringle thought. The females all wore shalwar kameez and had their heads covered. The matriarch, a big boned woman, but perhaps not fat, promptly sat down next to Miss Pringle. At least she didn’t smell, except perhaps of a rather sickly perfume she was wearing.

I must be grateful she is clean, thought Miss Pringle.

The older woman, the same age as herself, Miss Pringle supposed, nodded and smiled. She seemed to be very careful about not taking up more than her half of the seat.  

The younger woman and the two High School girls made their way down the aisle. The man held the little boy’s hand tightly.

“Here,” said the young man with the phone. “Take these seats.”

The younger woman and the older of the two girls took one of the wibbly wobbly seats each. The older girl pulled the little boy up to sit on his lap. The younger girl and her father held on tight.    

“It’s so nice to see that young people still have some manners, is it not?” said the woman sitting next to Miss Pringle.

“It is indeed,” said Miss Pringle, though it hadn’t been quite what she had expected. A shock, really, she thought.       

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Now, that I have officially resigned from the Republican Party and the American Conservative movement, I need my own movement.  I want this movement to be about honesty and integrity, not just electability.

I was forced to listen to Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh today.  There wasn’t anything else to do while I waited for lazy customers who can walk two blocks down the road.

The commentary on the three remaining republican candidates for the republican nomination is laughable.  Gingrich claiming to be a better conservative then Romney smites of the epitome of everything that is wrong with American conservatives.  Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman were better candidates then the 3 that are left.

I know I cannot keep repeating myself.  Before long I am going to bore myself.

However, we have to recognize that the safety and security of the human race is at stake.  The two commentators mentioned before have noted that Christian organizations are being denied their protected constitutional rights by the Obama administration.

You want to enslave people you have to first take away the god they serve.  Christians are being forced to hire lesbian and gay men.  Christians are being taken in to courts for sermons on homosexuality.   Catholics hospitals are being required to perform abortions under Obama-care.

We have also seen Obama and the Democrat political party attitudes towards hard work, prosperity, and wealth.  They want to overregulate investments and profits.  They want to remove the ties to personal responsibility and replace these ties with government dependency.

Their partners in crime are of course  the so called conservatives.   There is a consensus that states that the road to the White House is paved by pandering to African-Americans, Hispanics, and the Homosexual community.  The members of the Republican establishment want to keep their political niche.  Therefore, they need to pander to these groups.

I like many have been trying to understand the conflict between republican politicians and conservatives.  Well there it is people.  True conservative values are seen as obstacles to political victory.

Are the issues in this presidential election cycle only about the American economy?  The answer is no.  Yes, the economy needs to grow.  However, individual liberties are at stake.  The right of free speech, religion, to redress your government, against unreasonable search and seizure, to bear arms, and all the constitutional protections are under attack.

Your right to choose medical treatment has been taken away from Obama.  Companies will not be able to afford Obama-care and will stop offering health insurance to their employees.   You will end up in the substandard public health system.

If you have dreams of becoming rich, incorporate in to your plans having Obama take away 75% of your wealth to give to people not as devoted to personal success.  Obama believes that the 1% should fund all his political initiatives.  The reality is that this 1% does not have enough money to cover Obama spending, which is at 7 trillion and growing.

Therefore, you are going to end up as a salve to liberal policies.  You will not be able to speak out against Obama.  Your monetary power to fight him will be in his hands, leaving you powerless.

Again I am going to state that you conservative need to start getting educated on the issues.  There is no way that Romney and Gingrich are the best the conservative movement has to offer.  How in the world did the conservative movement get boxed in a corner where Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney are the only choices?

There is something seriously wrong with all of you who support these candidates.  For over two years these candidates’ flaws have been all over the modern media. Many of you conservatives choose to support these candidates in spite of their flaws.

Tell me how you trust a person who lies to you and/or changes his beliefs.  I know I cannot trust such a person.

It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that in a competition between Romney and Gingrich and Obama, Obama wins.  Santorum is probably the only one that has a chance against Obama in a national election.  I am not endorsing Santorum.  I have already stated that I will not endorse, nor work for, any of the three remaining candidates.

I just want all you conservatives who caused this problem with your political blindness to know what you have created.  There is no way Romney and the current congress are going to work for die-hard-conservative issues.  Gingrich will be blocked out congress and have little to no success with his initiatives.  The same goes for Santorum.

Oh you forgot you were also voting for some new congressional representatives.  How have these republicans that came in to congress in 2010 been working for you?  If I remember correctly they have given Obama most of what he wants.  They have raised the debt ceiling.   They have given Obama more money to spend.  They have not made any noticeable cuts in government spending.

This same congress is the one the next president will have to work with in creating policy.  This is the congress of Obama-care and 7trillion in Obama spending.

In addition, there is not a big group of informed conservatives to stop the madness.  People with lots of money, with the help of politicians, created an economic environment with dangerous systems.  We are rats in their maze.

The deterrence is supposed to be an informed electorate.  There is a free copy of the Federalist Papers at archive.org on the internet.  Get a copy and read it.  Writers make salient points about unscrupulous people manipulating others with the intent of controlling the environment.

These same writers advice the readers towards involvement in saving freedom and liberty.  When I was reading these articles, I asked myself how Americans forgot the value of freedom and liberty.  I came to the conclusion that people cannot forget what they never knew.

The tasks at hand are enormous.  Liberal policies are Socialist enslavement.  Freedom and liberty can only exist if the power remains firmly in the hands of the people, not the hands of Obama and his kind-which includes republicans.

            When our country was first founded it was built on the principle and idea of freedom. The government was built “by the people and for the people.” Our idea was a simple one. Our idea was that the government was going to do what was best for the country and its people, but now a days this is not true. The system is failing and we are being misguided.

            I have not seen or heard any news about this and I am curious as to why. It is a huge violation of the U.S.A’s idea. In these modern times the congress, the president, and the media are all about money. There is not a single congress man or woman that went in an average citizen and has come out the same. They are not doing whatever they can for the people. They are doing everything they can to make their specific political party stronger.

            The people are doing it too. No one considers another parties ideas because they want one side to be stronger than the other. For this reason not only has the government failed but the citizens have too. People are no longer voting for a candidate because they agree with what they stand for. People are now voting for their favorite candidate because they are in the same group. This is the ignorance that has led our country into a hole.

            No one is doing anything for the right reasons. Election times are consumed with the powerful people on one party “teaming up” with with their competition. There is a huge and constant battle. Democrats vs. Republicans and they are fighting for power over one and other, and paying no attention to us. The workforce, the backbone, the people.

We need to act. We need to get attention from the political parties and tell them to pay attention to what we want them to do. Not what is best for the party but what is best for the people. We need to do research on who we will be voting for and make educated decision. We need to change our selves and not let anyone do it for us. It is the peoples problem and the people need to fix it. You can’t expect people to work for you well without you putting a little work in yourself.

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            This is the one and only way to get the U.S back on track. We need to take control and not let anyone do things for us. I’m sure that you have stood around and dusscused your political views with a few of your buddies. So why not take that to a larger scale.Everyone needs to become educated and responsible citizens. We can’t just lay around and expect things to change around us when we are unwilling to change ourselves. Our government was started by the people and it should stay that way.

Lamar Smith is the criminal at the head of this. We need to stop him. I say this not as a bias reporter but as a person who can see the reality behind this all. Lamar Smith is being paid by the larger music companies and movie companies and is going to use his power to get their money for putting millions of people in jail .Yes. Jail. If you get caught putting up Copyrighted Material more than 3 times, you become arrested and fined around 200,00$ along with becoming a Felon to the American government.

Stand and watch. Do not let them do this. Remember this quote.

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – 
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – 
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – 
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Martin Niemoller

Perhaps in this situation you are the Socialist. The Trade Unionist. The Jew. But what if you are not?

In fact, that’s the problem. 

There are no individual rights. 

The state believes that it must act on behalf of the individual and protect the individual from himself or herself vis-à-vis state rights, privileges and authority.

The state, particularly the United States of America, has usurped individual’s inalienable rights, power and authority on a national and global level.

Through the individual, it brings the world to its feet.

It’s the individual acting on behalf of itself and as a body that makes up a nation and the world.

Yet under current jurisprudence practices, the state has managed to divorce itself from the will of the American people, global community and mass consciousness.

This has been achieved over many years of legal, social and psychological conditioning where the state has acted over time to return the individual to indentured bonded status – indentured to and bonded and marked by the state – devoid of legitimate rights, authority and opinion! 

The latest acts to seal the death of the individual are the Patriot Act creating Homeland Security, planned censorship and shut-down of the Internet and recent law for indefinite detention without charge and due process globally.

It has now become clear for whom these laws and agencies were created, i.e., the state, and for whom they were formed against, i.e., the individual. 

For it is through the subjugation and control of each living individual soul and world political body that the state wishes to exercise its will. 

This shall never be, for the collective consciousness, will, spirit and determination of the people is greater than that of an atomic bomb when unleashed!

See Carl Jung’s discussion on the psyche – Gnostic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQubC5zc-y4&feature=share

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There are 3 parts that compose these bills: 1) DNS Blocking 2) Search Engine Blacklisting 3) Private right to action.

Last year they blocked 84,000 INNOCENT small businesses…all the governement could say in regards to their flaw and blocking them was, “OOPS!” Really! Oops is ok is when a little kid breaks something, but oops does not cut ruining peoples’ lively hood and business!

If this bill goes through say goodbye to Yahoo, Gmail, Google, Msn,hotmail, AOL, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Triond, & billions of other sites that are detrimental to the way they see internet. Yes I even said Triond. Triond supports only Unique to you stuff absolutely, but they are linked with millions of other sites that may have a blacklist eye on them! If it is a site that shares info, odds are blacklsit will ensue. You can even kiss goobye Sites you pay for music and video downloading…Itunes being a main one. They are talking about blocking all sites that have anything to do with you not buying the products first hand people! It is censorship at its most secretive.

Censoring the internet will ruin more than they realize. They reserve the rights to tell you that well since you accessed a black list site, even if you didn’t realize it, they reserve the right to revoke internet ability and sue you!

I am not against entertainment world by far. I understand they feel ripped off by people downloading their stuff and them not seeing anything for it. This is wrong I agree. But if you want to stop this piracy stop creating burnable dvds and cds because as creative as man is, we will find ways to use them inappropriately to try to get around having to pay the man. It is just how society has come to be. Allowing this censorship will not only start an invasion of privacy and intrusion against our rights, but the entertainment community will also loose billions of dollars. Why you ask? Well, If you think on it, though they are pirating…it is in a sense free advertising. For example, I would never have even heard of Rammstein or Enya if it wouldn’t have been for yahoo music videos. i was just playing top hits and they popped in there somehow. I have found MANY bands I never had heard of through advertisements online, free streaming sites, and stuff like that. I found Kerli from a site, can’t recall which one. But then after I heard her music I went and bought her cd! I never would have even known about her without that streaming site.

Honestly, how much money does an artist or actor see out of the money per cd, dvd, blue-ray, or disk. These artists supporting and many in the entertainment business are not thinking it all through. Because without mp3, mp4 and formats compatible for ipods,mp3, and mp4 players which are found on streaming sites, downloadable music like limewire, itunes, bearshare, etc these would be obsolete! A cd is a completely different format that the ipod, mp3, and mp4 don’t recognize. The entertainment will loose money there and they don’t even realize it. Bearshare has a free and a premium just like limewire. However it is free for a limited time. People have gotten smart on how to get around free trial periods.

I am not a person who believes in conspiracies or theories without proof. Within the last 8 hrs i have read article after article and watched video after video over this bill. This is just the beginning. If they are able to take away internet access without probable cause…what rights and restrictions or privacies will they enforce and raise an invasion to or take away?! Think people, do we want some stranger telling us we can’t post a funny pic we saw on some site to our friends? Internet is advertising and communication at its finest. It is innovation. Do we want to go back to the stone age of technology or advance? Think people think. I invite you to look at just a few of the sources I looked at below. Make your own decision. Are you willing to give up freedoms you enjoy willingly? Have you forgotten your rights that easily?!

Constitutional rights of the first ammendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Know your rights and make the government think twice before they try to take them away. Our forefathers gave them to us and now our new leaders want to take them from us….or as they call it censor our rights!

Reference sites, veideos, & Materials:

1. http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Amend.html
2. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
4. http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/
5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html
6. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-blacklist-power-to-be-stripped-from-senates-protect-ip-act.ars
7. http://blacklistcheck.com/
8. http://blacklists.eff.org/
9. http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-san-jose/coica-senate-bill-s3804-to-blacklist-internet
10. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk3cIMAfMKs
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HuUCfYR-Jo&feature=related
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBlZ0GWjpqk&feature=relmfu

People there are millions more resources to back up my words. Even the nation’s news station are hoping on board! Today is the internet blackout day. Wikpedia blocking user is just a taste of what they’ll take from us!

2012 unpublished work. © by Rebbecca Abernathy

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While I have found my trip to LA to be great the one thing I did notice was the vast amount of homeless on the street. Talking with our unofficial tour guide I found that he used to care for a man who lost both of his legs in Korea. It saddens me to know that this man put his life on the line and lost both legs, yet was left to fend for himself here in the country he was defending.

I have done some research, because I have even notice myself that a great number of homeless people are veterans, I have discovered that this is very true. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans say that “VA estimates that 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Over the course of a year, approximately twice that many experience homelessness. Only eight percent of the general population can claim veteran status, but nearly one-fifth of the homeless population are veterans.” They also say, “The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) states the nation’s homeless veterans are predominantly male, with roughly five percent being female. The majority of them are single; come from urban areas; and suffer from mental illness, alcohol and/or substance abuse, or co-occurring disorders. About one-third of the adult homeless population are veterans.About 1.5 million other veterans, meanwhile, are considered at risk of homelessness due to poverty, lack of support networks, and dismal living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing.” (1)

Also I read from USA Today that, “Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11% of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.The National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education non-profit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.In comparison, the VA says that 20 years ago, the estimated number of veterans who were homeless on any given night was 250,000.” (2)

Last the National Coalition the Homeless even has input on this subject saying that, “Far too many veterans are homeless in America—between 130,000 and 200,000 on any given night—representing between one fourth and one-fifth of all homeless people. Three times that many veterans are struggling with excessive rent burdens and thus at increased risk of homelessness.
Further, there is concern about the future. Women veterans and those with disabilities including post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury are more likely to become homeless, and a higher percentage of veterans returning from the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have these characteristics.The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 131,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. And approximately twice that many experience homelessness over the course of a year. Conservatively, one out of every three homeless men who is sleeping in a doorway, alley or box in our cities and rural communities has put on a uniform and served this country.” (3)

So now I find myself asking, why is it that so many men and women who served our country so bravely laying in the streets. Chances are that just about everyone knows someone who has served in the arm forces, or is currently serving. These people are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents as well, and chances are that one of these people you know will be homeless sleeping in a box on the street. They are not only are family and friends, but the protectors and defenders to everything we hold dear, SO why are we letting this tragedy happen right before our very eyes? We walk right past someone almost everyday who has put their life on the line for our country, and most act as though they are not even there.

I feel we should all ask our selves where would this country be if these men and women didn’t put their life on the line for our freedom. And I find myself to a very simple answer, “What freedom?” because without these veterans risking everything we would not have freedom. So maybe we should consider this the next time we pass one of them laying on the street homeless. Maybe we should start to do more to help them, because without them we might not even be here. And if we do not start to help them that will be our fate as a country, and then what will the real tragedy be then?

(1) National Coalition for Homeless Veterans http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

(2) USA Today “Veterans make up 1 in 4 homeless” http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-07-homeless-veterans_N.htm

(3) National Coalition for the Homeless “Homeless Veterans” http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/veterans.html