The petition is about preventing Liberian warlords invoved in committing crimes against humanity and war crimes from using the holy pulpit to promote their personal agenda. On September 23,2012, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, and a major warlord of the brutal 14 year civil war in Liberia spoke at the Abysinnian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.

Our veterans are coming home and not giving the right kind of care that they need or just simply being turned away. The result is a high number of overdoses of presciption drugs and suicide.

The average college student graduates with a staggering amount of debt. Many grads are able to find work in their chosen field but the salaries for college grads don't justify the cost of higher education. I myself have held a job in my field for almost 6 years & my salary doesn't allow me to support myself or pay off my student loan. Companies still want cheap labor & it's wrong to require someone to have a degree & pay them close to what they could make without one. We have minimum wages in place for hourly workers and a system needs to be put in place for the salaried workers. Higher education in America is turning into a expensive joke.

An end is needed to allow legislation to be passed or obstructed based on party donor affiliation. These affiliations are directly related to lobbyists whose interests go beyond the common good. The Supreme Court needs to ensure Bills are not put forward or obstructed, and prevent direct correlation to campaign donors who are clear to gain or lose financially.

Thousands of your elderly constituents, poor families, low-income adults, and poor children will be affected immensely by your refusal to accept the Medicaid Expansion Program. I have nieces and nephews who will no longer be able to access medical care due to your irrational decision to balk at the President's plan to help our citizens, those of whom are in the greatest need of assistance. Gov. Jindal you can and should reverse your decision to refuse acceptance of this program.

USGS has developed an Earthquake Early Warning System that could give Californians a 10-60 second warning before the Big One hits. That may not sound like much time, but it's enough time to stop trains, delicate surgical procedures, shut down nuclear power plants, keep planes from landing, take people in elevators to the nearest floor, and for people everywhere to grab their loved ones and take shelter. The Japanese had a similar early warning system they attribute to saving thousands of lives. Mexico has one too. But State and Federal budget cuts mean it may take a catastrophic disaster before the funding is approved.

Not sure if this will be considered a petition, but very important.

I am tired of watching people die when they are just trying to live an everyday life. Unfortunately the NRA is in the pocket of Congress approximately 80% Republican and 20% democrat - I think this is too hot of a button for either candidate to handle - however we cannot sweep it under the rug. What did it for me was watching a Today show piece not long after the massacre in Aurora Colorado where people could buy assault weapons exchanging in store parking lots even Walmart even a missle launcher. I am personally involved only in the respect that I live in the United States of America and I ve had enough.

Usury law's have been done away with or weakened to allow banks to charge outrageous interest rates. Congress should write new laws reinstating the Usury Law's and the .Justice Department should have the ability to enforce any Usury law's still on the books.

Independance from oil, paritcularly imported oil, is vital for strategic political reasons as well ass environmental reasons and can help to be acieved by mass transport.

What does it say about the state of our water supplies and local political power structures when the public is compelled to accept water fluoridation amid persistent controversy? Are you ingesting fluoridated water – or do you live in the areas of Portland where residents may soon be railroaded by city government into having toxic fluoride added to your water supply? You might care to be informed beyond hype, propaganda, “science”, conspiracy theory or special interests. As is so often the case; follow the money. And you will also follow controversy. But the upshot is becoming; do our public servants have the right to compel the public to ingest fluoride – or any other such controversial ingredient dumped wholesale into your water supply? Some articles of opposition to water fluoridation have already been removed from the web. Other of those whose opposition squares off directly with those who seem to feel they have the right to impose their own propaganda or “science” have vilified documented research proving that fluoride is indeed a toxin.

Apply all of the truth in advertising laws to political campaigns and make it illegal to present lies or any other distortion as fact.