I have not been personally affected by bullying; however, I do work with children who have been bullied at school or in their community. The effects of bullying on these young lives is horrible. These children fear going to school, which should be a safe place to learn and grow. These children live in fear of their bullies and learn to self hate. Bullying is an issue that needs to be stopped; we need to build up our youth NOT let them tear each other apart. Maybe if our youth learned how to be more respectful, kind and accepting of others' differences from the start, in their adulthood there could be less hate.

My petition is about my fiance, our kids have suffered enough, PLEASE review his case, it was political,😘 The facts of this case are that we both had worked at the Sheriffs Department for many of years and they tried to control our lives and we both decided to move on when we did that Jack started working for the county and two weeks prior to all of this Jack was pulled over by a major and asked what he was doing with a sign for sheriff in his front yard (which was the opposing sheriff, and not the one that had been sheriff for the past 20 plus years) the major said who do you think you are after all the paychecks (current sheriff) has signed for you jack told him well he isn't signing them anymore and was probably kind of a smartass and said that it was none of his business who we voted for the major got t'd off and told him you just wait I'll get you you son of a bleep... Two weeks later the SWAT team came in and arrested us for possession possession with intent to sell trafficking and child endangerment (the trafficking and child endangerment were later dropped) there was absolutely no evidence that they found on our property or self. Eventually after retaining a lawyer and filing for a motion of discovery there was a tape from our current roommate that we were trying to help out who was apparently an undercover and on the tape it was my roommate asking me if I had any medicine for his girlfriend because she had just cut her hand up and glass and had no insurance I of course gave him some pills and told him I did not need any money but he convinced me to let him give me some money after all that we had done for him and giving him a place to stay I eventually agreed and took the money.. This is the only evidence that they had whatsoever Jack was not even at our property when this took place.. Jack's lawyer convinced him to go in front of the judge and that him and his counselor had everything taken care of and he was going to get 6 months in a rehabilitation facility. It was all a lie it was all a setup when he went in front of the judge the judge gave him 10 years he has currently completed six and a half years.. He is 100 percent innocent!!!! I must add that I have spent all of our savings on lawyer and appeals, when finally the last lawyer told me he would not take any more money from me because it was a complete set up and I was never going to get him out.. #TRUESTORY😓😢😪😥 PLEASE GOD HELP MY FAMILY!!!

Citizens of the United States do not wish our agents to use torture under any circumstances. It is not only wrong, it will result in harm to our troops and other citizens. Nothing Dick Cheney or the head of the CIA can say will change the fact that the end does not justify the means. The US is in violation of the Geneva Convention and our own laws. The Nation says: "Human experimentation was a core feature of the CIA’s torture program. The experimental nature of the interrogation and detention techniques is clearly evident in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its investigative report, despite redactions (insisted upon by the CIA) to obfuscate the locations of these laboratories of cruel science and the identities of perpetrators. At the helm of this human experimentation project were two psychologists hired by the CIA, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. They designed interrogation and detention protocols that they and others applied to people imprisoned in the agency’s secret “black sites.” In its response to the Senate report, the CIA justified its decision to hire the duo: “We believe their expertise was so unique that we would have been derelict had we not sought them out when it became clear that CIA would be heading into the uncharted territory of the program.” Mitchell and Jessen’s qualifications did not include interrogation experience, specialized knowledge about Al Qaeda or relevant cultural or linguistic knowledge. What they had was Air Force experience in studying the effects of torture on American prisoners of war, as well as a curiosity about whether theories of “learned helplessness” derived from experiments on dogs might work on human enemies. To implement those theories, Mitchell and Jessen oversaw or personally engaged in techniques intended to produce “debility, disorientation and dread.” Their “theory” had a particular means-ends relationship that is not well understood, as Mitchell testily explained in an interview on Vice News: “The point of the bad cop is to get the bad guy to talk to the good cop.” In other words, “enhanced interrogation techniques” (the Bush administration’s euphemism for torture) do not themselves produce useful information; rather, they produce the condition of total submission that will facilitate extraction of actionable intelligence."

New Mexico’s monopoly public power company wants to buy a coal mine – and they just announced a new plan that includes fining residential solar producers to pay for it. PNM should support clean energy, not more dirty coal. New Mexico's elected Public Regulation Commission members must not vote to approve PNM's new rate and fine plan. Tell them you want them to vote NO.

I have not been personally affected by bullying; however, I do work with children who have been bullied at school or in their community. What bullying does to these young lives is horrible. These children fear going to school, which should be a safe place to learn and grow. These children live in fear of their bullies and learn to self hate. Bullying is an issue that needs to be stopped; we need to build up our youth NOT let them tear each other apart. Maybe if our youth learned how to be more respectful, kind and accepting of others differences from the start in their adult future there could be less hate.

To address the issue of the Millard County Planning Commission undertaking intrusive, overreaching regulation without effective representation, and that has been completely unresponsive to public input and concerns expressed by members of the public.

TO RAISE THE WAGES OF WORKING CLASS PEOPLE TO BRING OVER 1 MILLION NJ WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO LIVE ABOVE POVERTY

Connecticut deserves a qualified educator to head its Department of Education to preserve public education and to implement policies that are best practices and researched-based.

Torture is illegal as well as morally reprehensible. Our nation has been perceived by the world as the enviable example of liberty and justice. Every citizen of the U.S. must now suffer with the knowledge that our past leaders abused their authority by authorizing the use of torture on detainees post 09/11/01. We can't change history, but we can punish those who dare bring this nation down with their illegal use of torture.

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