This petition is to address that unwarranted dog shootings in Warren County, McMinnville, Tenn are not being investigated. These crimes were Class E Felonies and the sheriff refuses to investigate or make an arrest. It is a Sheriff's responsibility to uphold Tennessee state law and not recklessly abandon his oath of office. His behavior has jeopardized the safety of the citizens he is supposed to protect.

Through Murdoch's enormous media power, he has influenced policy by constantly banging the drums for war, runaway corporate power, and rampant privatization. Repeated studies also show that the millions of Fox News viewers are far more incorrectly informed of facts than the rest of the public - clearly due to the habitual falsehoods Fox generates, also documented in studies. In England, Murdoch achieved enormous success, power, and influence - up to the top levels of government - through widespread bribery, phone hacking, and other criminal methods. Since his headquarters and major profits are in the USA, it would be foolish for us not to suspect his use of the same criminal methods.

Spreading the wealth of USA citizens should be Patriotic rather than letting the Republicans refer to it as communism or socialism. It does not start in local government, churches, etc. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government. We citizens should be PROUD of spreading the wealth which kept our country from going into the direction of other countries. Haiti would be one example in my mind at the moment.

The alleged epidemic of "voter fraud" has been completely disproved, as even admitted by some Republicans. Thus, this is clearly a coordinated, systematic GOP program (courtesy of ALEC) to eliminate several million mostly Democratic votes. The GOP hopes to steal a victory–and more power. They fear they won't win in an honest election process. Surely, this is the largest and worst attack on voting rights and fair elections in our history.

Americans are over-regulated with complex laws. Elected officials are voting on laws/bills which they have not read; yet they expect citizens to abide by them. Why should a regulation be thousands of pages long? I recently heard a member of the House who did not even understand the questions being asked about a regulation.

It is time we as a country put a stop to the filibustering procedures of the US senate. Why should one senator or minority party be able to veto the will of the people, congress and the president of the United States? We are fighting two wars and coming out of our worst financial crisis since the great depression. One person should not be able to stop our government from functioning as is the case in the US senate today. Our constitution states that the president is the only person who has veto powers. These powers can be overturned with a 2/3 vote by congress but the filibuster process vetoes the president, congress and our constitutional rights daily. When a legislative procedure proves to be greater than our constitution it must be eliminated. The only acceptable form of filibustering should be one that is very limited in its' scope in terms of time, frequency and duration, and does not require a super majority vote. Using the senate as an example on filibustering, why prevent states from filibustering over congressional members and not let them be seated after being elected? As you can see this would be wrong. The filibuster has proved to be a congressional veto by its' action and history and must be eliminated. I believe we have a right to debate but our right to debate should not stop our right to proceed with a majority vote by congress that the filibuster now stops.

We need to prohibit federal lobbying at all levels . Our governments make decisions based on lobbying. Our nation is in danger of becoming a nation controlled by and paid for by special interests. As Americans we need to take back our government. This petition will be opposed but Republicans, Democrats and Independents must united.

Lobbyists appear to have a great influence on public officials. By releasing thier tax returns, the public will know who is receiving money from special interests.

We are small business owners Mandated insurance policies to do business in California are the biggest expense a business has. We provide 100% health care for all our fulltime employees. With health care reforms taking place we can now expect reforms with our patchwork work loss programs. Presenting this petition to our countries legislators is a good first step in realizing good insurance reforms will take place in the future.

I have a simple plan which is the horsepower to raise "MONEY" to solve the problems facing our 50 million veterans/troops and their families. If President Obama would publicly present this innovative, technological solution to involve every American the Democratic party would endear themselves to each and every veteran and their families.

Bank of America continues to foreclose on home people who are unemployed, have had significant financial loses. BAnonk of America ignores Government programs to help the poor like HAMP or HARP programs designed to help people stay in their homes. I had significant financial loss but BAnk of America denied me HAMP program re-financing.

I am petitioning Mr. Mark Thompson, Director-General and editor-in-chief of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), appointed by the BBC Trust to review the delivery of BBC services. It is clear given the ill-considered blunders throughout much of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the absence of suitable and sustained representation of the African/Caribbean community that a management group needs to be assigned along with the BBC Direction Group and boards at the Group level.