• Legalize Marijuana 2012
    Legalize Marijuana 2012.. Richard Nixon was the Jerk that started the War On Drugs Dont you think our jails an prisons would be better filled up with Violent Offenders We Not some Group of Children that needs BIG BROTHER watching our every move counting every little bit of medication when you have a MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENSE ... Bar coded .. DEA certified doctors.
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    Created by Richard Holzberlein
  • Americans against being shot
    Too many people are shot to death every day in America. This is preventable if we only but let our politicians know we want our communities to be safe from gun injuries and deaths. We can do better by passing sensible state and federal gun laws.
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    Created by Joan Peterson
  • Justice for Dan Two Feathers
    In 2008, Dan Two Feathers made the choice to help a friend, who had a secret partner that Dan didn't know about. These two had devised a scheme to defraud investors. These investors lost their money and Dan discovered all too late that it was a scam. Seeking to accept responsibility for his part, Dan on March 7th 2012 plead guilty to 4 counts related to securities fraud. On Friday, June 15th, Dan was sentenced to 6 years in prison. After 60 days of incarceration Dan will lose his VA Disability Pension until he is released and reapplies for it, which will take a year or more to get it, which means that he will end up living on the Streets in Montana for a year or more, in a wheelchair with his medical conditions. This was known to the Courts at the time of his sentencing since they had Medical Records, letters from Medical Professionals and a letter from the Veterans Administration confirming the time period after release. Dan simply asked to serve his time under house arrest so that he could continue receiving medical attention from Doctors that are familiar with his medical conditions. The Court denied this request and now the sentence equates to a Death Sentence for a Non-Capital Offense which is a violation of his 8th Amendment Rights which protect against Cruel and Unusual Punishment.To add insult to injury, Dan’s Attorney from the Federal Defenders of Montana’s Office refused to express to the Court the results of such a sentence and to champion Dan’s case to the Court to convince them otherwise. While Dan has asked his Attorney to Appeal the sentence, if his Attorney fights for him with the Appeal as he did at time of sentencing, Dan will certainly lose the Appeal. Dan has no other choice but to allow him to do the Appeal since Dan has no way to hire an Attorney that would truly fight for him. Dan’s Attorney informed Dan that he only had 2 choices, one, which was whether to go to trial and two, whether to appeal or not. Dan asked him to file for a Stay of Sentence during Appeal’s process and to file to correct the sentence based on the 8th Amendment but the Attorney refused. Dan is simply asking that his sentence be commuted to serving at House Arrest. He can be restricted to his home except for Medical and Counseling appointments only. He can make arrangements for someone to go grocery shopping for him, as well as still parent his six year old daughter Trinity. Serving his sentence under House Arrest will do several things. It will allow for the punishment to be served for the crime committed, it would allow Dan to continue receiving his Disability Pension, and it would allow him to have a roof over his head and food to eat. Serving his sentence at House Arrest would also prevent him from having to spend a year or more on the streets in Western Montana and will save taxpayers monies that would be need to house and treat him while in prison. Under current statistics to imprison a healthy person for 6 years it cost the taxpayer approximately $286,000.00, a prisoner in Dan’s condition would cost approximately 3 times that amount. Had he known from the beginning, what his friend was really engaging in, Dan never would have agreed to participate. His losses will be more than financial. For a non capital crime, Dan is at risk of losing his life. Without the regular care of his doctors, six years in prison is tantamount to a death sentence. Recently, in the state of Washington a bus driver was charged and convicted of five counts of molestation, to which he received thirty days per count in the county jail. In the News within the past year there was Citigroup that defrauded investor of over $1 Billion and to avoid prosecution to any of their Executives all criminal Charges were dropped after they paid a fine of approximately $250 million. Or Glaxo-Smith-Kline who defrauded the public on some medications and they were allowed to pay a fine so that all criminal charges would be dropped against their Executives. Surely these are more grievous crimes. Dan Two-Feathers sentence is not justice; please sign this petition asking the court to reconsider its current stance of a six year sentence for a non violent offender and commute it to House Arrest. Thank you, and please pass this on to your friends.
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    Created by mbrooksjohnson
  • Former Parolee Forgiveness Act 2012
    People who have been on probation are given the opportunity to have their criminal record expunged after they complete their probation term. Parolees of the California Department of Corrections can, after seven years, petition for a Governor's pardon, but cannot have their criminal record expunged. Governor Brown could sign legislation that would provide parolees who have completed their parole term without any violations and have proven exempliary citizenship for a 5-year period, to have their criminal record expunged.
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    Created by Christina Kelley
  • Time for another Constitutional Convention!
    Flush the current disgrace in the US House, Senate, Executive Branch and Supreme Court
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    Created by Dr. Bob Hacker
  • Policy Brutality
    I would like to see some new laws protecting citizens from police officers and police brutality. They have to much power to physically abuse potential suspects, for example Kelly Thomas, Rodney King, kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach, kicking a woman in the head that was sitting on the curb handcuffed and not a threat to the officer. I would like to see some laws passed such as: not allowed to beat someone in the head with a flashlight or a fist or kicking them, not allowed to kick pregnant women in the stomach, not allow officers to pile on top of people causing the suspects ribs to break and puncture a lung, crushing their windpipe so that they suffocate. If they suspect a person is mentally ill, there should be an advocate on duty at all times called to the scene to assess the suspect and protect suspect and escort the suspect with the police to a hospital if needed during a mental crisis. If the police cannot assess if a person is mentally ill, perhaps a course in mentall illness should be included in their training along with a course on compassion. The police should not be bullying suspects or threating them, or provoking them. They are suppose to serve and protect, not abuse and kill! Their job is to apprehend, handcuff, and put in police car for transport without physically abusing a person. When they use a stun gun, they cannot expect a person to get up and walk immediately after that and then continue to drag the person across the pavement, they cannot stand up because they have just been stunned! They should not be allowed to bully, antagonize, or threaten. Limits need to be set NOW!
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    Created by Heather Williams
  • End The War Against Marijuana
    The prohibition of alcohol was a complete failure, and the current prohibition against marijuana is, and always will be a complete failure in which our government is spending over a billion dollars a year of our tax money trying to enforce an insane law that has ruined tens of thousands of lives by sending non violent "criminals" to for profit prisons. Over 50% of all Americans have stated that they want this insane and impossible to enforce law overturned, and 70% of all Americans agree that medical marijuana should be made available to those in need of this cheap and easily gotten natural herb that has been proven to help many unfortunate people suffering from serious diseases. The billions of dollars that are wasted trying to enforce this insanity could be much better spent on things like education, health care, roads, bridges, green energy and much more.
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    Created by Edward Loeffler
  • END APARTHEID
    Israel has been getting away with murder for far too long and we cannot rely on our elected representatives in Washington to turn the tide because they have been muzzled by the Israeli lobbies like AIPAC and ADL and they also rely on their money and votes.
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    Created by Victor Trinidad
  • Unsung Victims in Society.
    Petition investigations into all CIVILRIGHTS cases the Department Of Justice disregarded based on orders from the Bush Administration
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    Created by Godschild Diana
  • President Obama & Congress: Replace Pardons Attorney Ronald Rogers
    Every President, according to the Constitution, has a responsibility to commute sentences of worthy inmates. President Bush & President Obama have the worst records but it's not their faults. Ronald Rogers has withheld worthy petitions, and withheld supporting documents. He should be replaced by someone who is just, fair, compassionate & competent.
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    Created by Emma Young
  • President Obama stop sending people to jail for smoking marijuana
    It should be criminal that we are destroying people's lives and wasting manpower and money on a substance less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. If our president was arrested for his admitted drug use, he wouldn't be our president. Stop the hypocrisy.
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    Created by jillhalpern
  • California Manditory Minimum Sentencing Reform.
    My son's dad has been in prison for almost thirty years on a 25 to Life Sentance. He is now in his early fifty 's with a variety of health issues. When he was arrested for murderer back in 1986, he was suffering from a sever brain injury and was threatened with the death penalty if he did not take a Life Term plea bargain. He had no previous criminal history and his crime was committed in the hopes of protecting children who were being abused by the victim on a regular basis. He is now much recovered from the injury and knows he committed a horrible crime. His is only one story out of hundreds. Another Lifer inmate has been in prison over thirty years for the crime of accidently killing his mother's boyfriend as he was beating severely beating her. He too is over fifty years old with no release in site. Both of these men committed one crime, both to protect a weaker person and both are serving Life sentances and both are now elderly and suffering from health issues that, collectively, cost state tax payers thousands of dollars a year in health care. A decade ago, the state housed 6000 inmates 55 and older. In 2012 it is more like 14,000 over 55. By 2017, there will be an estimated 20,000. That is an amazing figure. Even Judge Anthony Kline knows that "recindivism among Lifer prisoners is less than 1%. " Let our Lifers go home when they have served their time. Save the state money. Thank For your time. Please share this.
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    Created by Laura Savage