So-called 'Monsanto riders,' quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require - not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech producer has to do is ask.

Petitioning for needed change is okay. Making that change by passing an Initiative is better. SignOn.org should have a process for signing Initiatives, as well as petitions

This petition is about correcting of automotive lighting function, and specifically of headlight aiming and function, and function of automotive tail and brake lights. I have been too often been blinded by miss-aimed headlights. I have frequently noticed cars with missing and malfunctioning tail, brake and turn signal lights.

The Department of Transportation are not medical proffessionals, and should not have the right to arbitraily allow drivers, pilots and engineers to use one Doctor-prescribed controlled substance while disallowing another.

In the eyes of the law Corporation are considered people. As such they should be treated no differently than individuals when they commit crimes. Ex: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air andd to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said. In this instance the corporation and the executives involved should be eligible for the death penalty based on the severity of the crime. French Example: French law provides for the prosecution of companies as legal entities in a similar way as an individual offender. Under article 121-2 of the Penal Code, «legal persons, with the exception of the State, are criminally liable for the offences committed on their account by their organs or representatives». As implied from article 121-2 of the Penal Code, companies may be held liable through imputation for acts caused by a natural person, so long as the natural person is acting as its organ or representative. A company may be prosecuted for most of the same offences as an individual offender. Therefore, the differences in the prosecution of an individual and a company result from practical realities, as detailed below. IN OTHER WORDS, IF CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE CONSIDERED NATURAL PERSONS THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME LAWS AND PENALTIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THOSE CRIMES

Anyone who places a political ad that is dishonest or misleading about their opponent should have all their ads banned from use and they should pay a huge fine to be turned over to the public. free speech doesn't mean obtaining political office by lying to the people.

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.

the coming election

I want to see Wall Street pay for their crimes.

It's simply that as Legislators, elected & sworn to serve the citizens of the U.S.A., they should have no exclusive right(s) to taxpayer paid Health & Life Insurance; as well as Pension provisions. They are NOT privileged citizens, in these matters any more than any citizen. They should pay & contribute to their own financial future just like every citizen.

For example in Manchester Iowa USA transgenders here have been beaten and molested by local law enforcement. After it happens owners of films of these acts by law enforcement then tamper the film to advance their own testimony. I have heard of this all around the world. But when it hits you and your town as above this crap has to stop. I was beaten and molested in Manchester. Iowa law is to protect me from this

Congress should stop siding with special interest groups! End corporate personhood and return to the reality that a corporation is an entity, not a person! represent the people you were elected to serve and quit allowing lobbying (legalized bribery) to be the norm! People, not $$$$$, should elect our representatives!!