On July 15, 2011, GQ Magazine published an article by author John B. Thompson reviewing fashion in the United States titled, "40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America" and described Boston, MA as number one saying, "Due to so much local inbreeding, Boston suffers from a kind of Style Down Syndrome, where a little extra ends up ruining everything." This remark demeans individuals with Down syndrome, who have a genetic diagnosis due to an error in cell division that is unrelated to inbreeding, and spreads inaccurate and prejudicial views about the 400,000 people with Down syndrome in the U.S. Let GQ editors and staff know you don't agree with this type of disability discrimination by signing this petition asking them to apologize for publishing a statement of diversity intolerance that compares people with Down syndrome and their extra chromosome to an undesirable social class like they say Bostonian's are due to their fashion choices.

This proposal was written by an immigration attorney in an effort to rectify the current humanitarian crisis at the border. He has practiced immigration law for many years. Please sign this to get congress to consider enacting these measures. Attorney: I think something like this would instantly relieve the pressure at the border, would allow for reasonable checking of individuals, would provide an orderly process to come to the U.S. on terms that benefit everyone, and gives a mechanism to remove problems. This would also greatly reduce the burdens on the Immigration Courts as well as the Circuit Courts of Appeals. CARE Act Central American Relief Establishment Act 1. The U.S. recognizes that the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are unwilling or incapable of protecting their citizens from groups seeking to inflict violence on their people. 2. The U.S. recognizes that the economies of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are inadequate to provide adequate employment for those seeking to support themselves and their dependents. 3. Establish a visa category for those wanting to seek employment in the U.S. 4. The number of such visas will be capped at the unemployment rate in as determined by the Secretary of the Labor on an annual basis. 5. Such visas are for lawful temporary residence and will permit the individual and spouse and children to live and work in the U.S. for a period of seven years. Such status may be renewed every seven years. 6. At any time after ten years of temporary residence the person may apply for permanent residence under the normal terms and conditions set forth in INA 245. 7a. No temporary resident is eligible for any Federal means tested benefits except for emergency medical benefits. Receipt of federal benefits (other than emergency medical benefits) is a removable offense. 7b. Failure to file Federal tax returns disqualifies the person for status renewal and is a removable offense 7c. Temporary residents are subject to revocation of status and removal for violating INA 212 or INA 237 as pertaining to inadmissibility and removability. 8. No person who is part of a gang may be approved. 9. Past gang membership of at least 5 years prior requires a waiver at the discretion of the Secretary of State. 10. Any person in such status who is convicted of a felony is subject to removal. Such proceedings will be limited to consideration of the following: has the person been convicted; does the person have permanent resident or U.S. Citizen status. If convicted and not a LPR or USC, said person shall be ordered removed. 11. Any person in such status who is convicted of 1 or more misdemeanors ( this number could be increased or it could allow for an exemption to apply as is current law ) is subject to removal. However, such persons are eligible for voluntary departure. If the person has ten or more years of temporary residence, the person may also seek, adjustment of status, and/or cancellation of removal. Hardship for cancellation of removal may be to the person, spouse, children, or USC or LPR parents. 12. As an alternative to an economic temporary resident visa, individuals from El Salvador, Honduras, or Guatemala may seek Temporary Protected Status in the U.S. Such individuals must present themselves at a POE and declare that they are requesting TPS. 13. If the individual passes a credible fear interview, and is not inadmissible as a criminal or member of a criminal enterprise they will be admitted as TPS. 14. TPS will be recognized until such time as the Secretary of State, the Secretary of DHS, and the Secretary of Defense certify that the government of such a country is now in control of the groups inflicting violence and has been in control for a period of five years. Such certification must be presented to the House and Senate for concurrence of removing the TPS eligibility. 15. Any adult persons in TPS status who desire a permanent grant of protection must apply for asylum within two years of admission into TPS. Minors who enter with TPS must apply no later than age 23 16. Admission as TPS is an admission for INA purposes and the person may apply for adjustment under INA 245. 17. Any persons in TPS status may have their status revoked and be subject to removal for convictions. Such a person may apply for asylum or for cancellation of removal or for relief under the CAT. 18. Paragraph 7 as to benefits, tax returns, and INA 212 and INA 237 apply to TPS holders under this Act as well. 19. Paragraphs 8-9 apply to TPS holders under this Act as well. 20. There shall be no fee for asylum or TPS applicants. 21. There shall be a fee of $1,000 for the principal applicant and $200.00 for each derivative applicant for the economic temporary resident visa. 22. Derivative applicants may apply at the time of the principal or at any time after while the principal is in valid temporary resident status.

In the matter of National Grid, We, the undersigned residents of Massachusetts, request that the Massachusetts Attorney General investigate the Worcester National Grid Smart Meter Pilot Program (renamed Smart Energy Solutions) and the DPU Working Group process that authorized the program. FAULTY ENROLLMENT PROCESS / LACK OF INFORMED CONSENT / HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS / HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT: 1. WHEREAS, individuals in positions of leadership and influence unethically enrolled Worcester residents in human experimentation without consultation, representation, compensation, protection, or full disclosure of program parameters; and 2. WHEREAS, Worcester residents have the right to sovereignty over their habitat and homes, as opposed to local government enrolling neighborhood environments as an experimental testing ground for unproven, inadequately regulated, and unmonitored technology, which has already resulted in harm to a portion of the population in other communities; and 3. WHEREAS, according to the Department of Energy Voices of Experience Report, participants in the Green2Growth Summit were “hand-picked” to present an image that the program was co-created with the community through the process of Appreciative Inquiry, while few residents may have known about the program or its long range implications; and 4. WHEREAS, participants receiving experimental smart meters were auto-enrolled rather than offered a formal opt-in process with full disclosure and informed consent; and 5. WHEREAS, enrollment materials may not have been translated into languages other than English to insure informed consent and understanding of all residents; and 6. WHEREAS, enrollment materials did not disclose the full magnitude of the pilot program, which included the installation of 242 WiMax antennas and additional wireless infrastructure and microwave towers in residential neighborhoods, for a pilot program experiment; and 7. WHEREAS, Worcester residents were not invited to participate in the October 2013 grand opening of the Sustainability Hub, which instead served as a photo opportunity for area politicians and power brokers in the community; and 8. WHEREAS, the existence of and locations of “neighborhood repeater meters” and infrastructure that poses higher levels of radiofrequency exposure has not been divulged to residents; and 9. WHEREAS, 5000 Itron smart meters were covertly installed before the pilot was formally approved; and 10. WHEREAS residents’ and consumer advocates concerns and complaints have been minimized and ignored by local government, including City Council delayed orders for health data, ignored request for formation of a citizen’s advisory committee, ignored requests for a public hearing, ignored requests for advocacy concerning adverse health complaints, and ignored requests for scrutiny of auto-enrollment process; and 11. WHEREAS, the Worcester Pilot Program included an extensive pre-pilot education budget, while no evidence has been provided that residents learned about the pilot in advance of the meters being deployed, or have received accurate information about the scope of the program; and HEALTH CONCERNS: 12. WHEREAS, according to public health expert Elihu D Richter MD, MPH, “Were these population-wide exposures to smart meters to be part of a project carried out in a medical setting, to test the risks and benefits of a new technology on human health and well being, it would be rejected by a Medical Institutional Review Board on ethical grounds as an unethical exercise in human experimentation;” and 13. WHEREAS, the microwave radiofrequency powering the grid and mesh network exposes the Worcester community to a class 2B human carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization, without the knowledge, consent, consideration, or protection of residents; and 14. WHEREAS, the radiofrequency exposure limits in countries including Russia, China, India, and most of Europe are significantly lower than those in the pro-military Western Alliance countries (US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia); and 15. WHEREAS, the City of Worcester, National Grid and its vendors, while focusing only on technology and equipment, provide no monitoring of health and environmental impacts; and 16. WHEREAS, no provision is in place to provide services for residents who experience adverse health impacts, despite reports of harm in other deployed communities, indicating that the expense will be cost-shifted to the social sector; and 17. WHEREAS, citizens may make the faulty assumption that smart meters have been proven safe if the installation has been approved by authorities in whom they trust, including elected officials, and may not recognize that adverse health reactions may be resulting due to increased exposure to pulsed microwave radiofrequencies; and 18. WHEREAS, health care providers have not been informed that smart meters may be contributing to de...

A BILL To amend chapter 20 of title 42, United States Code, to hold referenda to direct Congress to amend the Constitution to prevent unlimited anonymous foreign money contributions from influencing United States politics, and to otherwise ensure electoral, financial, energy, climate, educational, and health security, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Constitutional Amendments Referenda Act of 2012. SECTION. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REFERENDA. Chapter 20 of title 42, United States Code, is amended by inserting the following: SUBCHAPTER III—CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REFERENDA (§1974f). 1974f. All States shall include on the November, 2012 general election ballots the following separate referenda to mandate that each State's senators and congressional representatives shall be instructed and required to the fullest extent of the law to support, agendize, and immediately vote in favor of—and that each State's legislators shall be instructed and required to the fullest extent of the law to immediately ratify—amendments to the United States Constitution to immediately: (1) Overturn the decision of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC (2010) by amending the Constitution to include the following: Section 1. To secure the independence of the legislature and executive, the Congress shall: (a) publicly fund federal elections with at least the equivalent of the total amount spent in the election cycle when this article is ratified; (b) limit any non-anonymized contributions to candidates for federal office to the equivalent of $100; and (c) have the power to limit, but not ban, independent political expenditures within 90 days of an election, including but not limited to spending in support of, or in opposition to, a candidate for federal office. Section 2. The First Amendment shall not be construed to limit legislation enacted pursuant to this article, except to assure neutrality of content and viewpoints. Neither shall the First Amendment be construed to limit the equivalent power of state or local legislation enacted to regulate state or local elections. Nor shall the First Amendment be construed to vest any unalienable constitutional rights in any non-natural person. Section 3. The Congress shall establish an agency for federal elections to enforce the provisions of this article, whose principal officers shall be non-partisan commissioners who have served as federal judges at least ten years. The agency shall have standing to enforce this article in the federal courts, including in actions against Congress. Section 4. The Congress may enforce the provisions of this article by legislation; (2) Require that political contributions to super PACs be taxed at the rate of 99%; (3) Require that all congressional districts be redrawn once in 2013 and after each subsequent census such that they are more compact and more contentious instead of safe for the major political parties, and such that there shall be minimal overlap between districts for State assemblies, State senates and Congress; (4) Prohibit all political advertisements in accordance with the regulations in effect in Denmark at the time http://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/258767/what-us-politicos-can-learn-from-denmark.thtml was written; (5) Fund all voting precinct equipment, training, and staff in proportion to the population of those precincts in order to eliminate voters discouraged by long lines in poor neighborhoods; (6) Abolish the electoral college and replace it with direct popular election by instant-runoff voting; (7) Mandate that the single transferrable vote (such as instant-runoff voting for single seats) or contingent vote systems be required in all elections, unless such elections are to establish a numerical value, in which case the median value of the voters shall be required; (8) Abolish all property and sales taxes, replacing them with income and capital gains taxation based on two brackets, where the bottom bracket shall be taxed at 0% and the top bracket shall be set by the Congress at a cusp and rate which shall balance the United States budget, except that a lower rate shall apply to capital gains from securities held more than five years; (9) Forbid subsidy of fossil fuels, subsidize domestic and foreign renewable energy to the extent necessary to minimize total economic damage from extreme weather, and require the Secretary of Energy to commercialize the mass production of carbon neutral synthetic transportation fuel from carbonic acid in seawater; (10) Require the Secretary of Education to provide reading tutoring systems based on pronunciation assessment using speech recognition for free to all on the internet by web and mobile device stand-alone systems; (11) Establish a single-payer national universal health care system; (12) Req...

PLEASE VOTE FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON THE BALLOT IN THE NEXT FEDERAL ELECTION (PLEASE PLACE A CHECK MARK NEXT TO YOUR CHOICE) Congressional Reform 1. No Tenure / No Pension / No Healthcare. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. (Retroactive to all retired government employees or elected members of congress.) _____ Agree _____ Disagree 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. (Retroactive to all/any retired federal government employees.) _____ Agree _____Disagree 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 4. Congress will no longer vote them selves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3% providing Social Security recipients receive their COLA. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 5. Congress immediately loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. _____ Agree _____Disagree 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/13. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 8. No member of congress is permitted to use federally paid modes of transportation except for specified government business. Following the federally sponsored/approved travel the participants must present to their respective superior what they accomplished during the approved mission in written form, which shall be immediately available to the American public. The only exception to reporting accomplishment/s to the American public is if the information to be revealed affects national security. _____ Agree _____Disagree 9. All federal employees, and/or their family members, will be fully responsible for all expenses related to vacations. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 10. Any congressman/woman who adds a line item to any federally proposed bill that can be interpreted as not being consistent with the intent of the originally proposed bill (pork) will be immediately removed from office. _____ Agree _____ Disagree LANGUAGE 10. English is the language for all Americans. All documents issued by any government and all business entities in the United States will be printed using English only. If you don’t understand English you must learn how to speak and read English and become a true American. If you disagree, you have the freedom of choice to depart America to the country where the language you understand is the spoken and written word. _____ Agree _____ Disagree GOD AND PRAYER 12. In our pledge of allegiance, “one nation under God” will always be a part of the pledge of Allegiance. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 13. We are a Christian nation therefore; any and all public and private events can allow prayer to be a part of any and all ceremonies. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 14. The pledge of Allegiance can be displayed at all or any time at any facility that elects to display the pledge of Allegiance whether it be government or privately controlled. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 15. “In God We Trust” must appear on all currency produced in the United States government. _____ Agree ____ Disagree ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 16. As a citizen of the United States I insist that the Federal Government uphold the Constitution of the United States and enforce all laws presented in the Constitution without exception. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 17. All illegal immigrants are given one-year to depart the United States. During this one-year period all illegal immigrants have the opportunity to dispose of any property or valuable possessions they do not intend to take with them to their native or other selected country. Those electing to remain will be subject to immediate deportation to the country from which they came. All property or other material possessions they currently have under their control will become property of the United States. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 18. Any child born to an illegal immigrant automatically becomes a citizen of the country where the mother is a citizen and not a citizen of the United States. _____ Agree _____ Disagree 19. No local, state or federal aid whatsoever will be granted to an illegal immigrant. _____ Agree _____ Disagree

Aloha, We, the undersigned, would like to express our concern for single-use plastic bags on the island of O'ahu. We believe that the most direct way to address the problem of plastic toxicity is by placing a widespread ban on the plastic bag. While the bag fee initiative creates money to promote awareness and education, we feel it only sidesteps the problem. The world uses over 1.2 trillion plastic bags a year. That averages about 300 bags for each adult on the planet. That comes out to over one million bags being used per minute. "On average we use each plastic bag for approximately 12 minutes before disposing. It then lasts in the environment for decades. Plastic bags, as with all forms of plastic, do not biodegrade. They photodegrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil, waterways, oceans and entering the food web when ingested by animals." (c/o messageinthewaves.com) ‎"The Great Pacific Garbage Path located in the North Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles Northwest of Hawaii is estimated to be twice the size of Texas. The patch was created from 3.5 million tons of rubbish from around the Pacific Rim with 80% of the debris coming from land. Each year, over 300 million tons of plastic is produced with much of it in the form of one-time disposable plastic bags. An estimated 90% of these bags are NOT recycled. The U.S alone uses 100 billion new plastic bags each year - the average person goes through 350 - 500 bags." -via liberated cuts Tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals and turtles are killed every year from plastic bag litter in the marine environment as they often mistake plastic bags for food such as jellyfish. Plastic bags, once ingested, cannot be digested or passed by an animal so it stays in the gut. Plastic in an animal’s gut can prevent food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death. As an event coordinator for the nonprofit beach cleanup group Sustainable Coastlines, I have seen the horrible effects of plastic directly - and it is neverending. Pieces of plastic define the high tide marks, and no matter how much is collected, every new high tide deposits more plastic. If we don't take drastic measures soon, Hawai'i will look and feel depleted and dirty. As plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to break down, once an animal dies and decays after ingesting plastic, the plastic is then freed back into the marine environment to carry on killing other wildlife. Every fruit, every vegetable sold at one of the dozens of farmer's markets alone involves the transfer of a plastic bag. Offering plastic at checkouts is simply too convenient. It's like handing a thirsty person a bottle of water, when the other option of bringing their own bottle of water involves preplanned effort. There is absolutely no need for plastic bags, and no reason to keep them on the forefront of consumerism here in Hawaii. A bold Vitamin Cottage grocery store in Denver banned all bags, forcing patrons to HAVE TO remember their own or use their hands. It was hugely applauded. The only way we will experience dynamic change is if the government takes bold steps to protect the ocean and the marine life in it. Ban the plastic bag on O'ahu. -About four-fifths of marine trash comes from land, swept by wind or washed by rain off highways and city streets, down streams and rivers, and out to sea. Nearly 90% of floating marine litter is plastic. -Not all litter is deliberate. 47% of wind borne litter escaping from landfills is plastic. Much of this is plastic bags. In the marine environment plastic bag litter is lethal, killing at least 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles every year. After an animal is killed by plastic bags, its body decomposes and the plastic is released back into the environment where it can kill again. - In June 2006 United Nations Environmental Program report estimated that there are an average of 46,000 pieces of plastic debris floating on or near the surface of every square mile of ocean -Countries and States that have banned or taken action to discourage the use of plastic bags include: Australia, Bangladesh, Ireland, Italy, Taiwan, Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Scotland, France, West Bengal, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Switzerland, Rwanda, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, California, Somalia, Botswana, and the Philippines (via messageinthewaves.com) Thank you for your time and continued excellence in representing the people of Hawai'i. We hope you will give this matter the attention it deserves.

Congress Refuses To Call a Convention to Amend By: Daniel Marks Saturday February 18, 2012 4:32 pm The following is quoted from material sent to A.G. Eric Holder of the Dept. of Justice as a criminal complaint against the Congressmen/women for not abiding by Article 5 of the US Constitution and summoning a convention to amend the Constitution as 49 of States have applied for hundreds of times throughout our history. ——————— January 12, 2012 Eric H. Holder, Jr. Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington DC 20530-0001 Dear Sir: I wish to bring to your attention a matter of flagrant violation of the Constitution of the United States by officials of the United States Government. The specific issue I refer to is the refusal of the members of the Congress of the United States to call an Article V Convention as required by that document. I am including reference material with this letter for your convenience to which I will refer through this letter. I am requesting your office begin an immediate criminal investigation as to violation of oath of office by members of Congress in this regard. The key point in this matter is contained in Article V of the Constitution which states [in part] “…on the application of two thirds of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states [Congress] shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which… shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution…[when ratified as further described in Article V].” Scholars, historians and, more importantly, the Supreme Court, as well as statements made in open court by the Government itself all agree on a fundamental point: the call is peremptory meaning under no circumstances can Congress refuse to call the convention once the states have applied. Simple reference to the United States Senate’s own annotated reference is one of hundreds of references. This reference states, “The Constitution also authorizes a national convention, when two-thirds of the states petition Congress for such a convention….” In the federal lawsuit Walker v Members of Congress, the Solicitor General of the United States acknowledged that a convention call was “peremptory” and that a sufficient number of applications from the states have been submitted to cause Congress to call a convention. These facts, therefore, are irrefutable as they are all a matter of public record. Equally, a matter of public record is the refusal of Congress to obey the Constitution. Their collective oaths of office are explicit. They shall have no “mental reservations” as to obedience to the Constitution, which, as I am sure you are aware, means they must obey the Constitution as written, without hesitation or evasion. Yet, the fact remains the members of Congress have not done so. There is no question as to their criminal culpability in this matter. Congress has never even gathered the state applications into a single reference source so that tabulation of them can occur. When called upon by members of the public and more importantly in two federal lawsuits, the members of Congressunanimously publicly opposed obeying the Constitution and calling an Article V Convention. This again, despite four separate unanimous Supreme Court decisions all decreeing Congress must call a convention if the states so apply. Upon learning of the above facts, I made efforts to report the violation of oath of office to the appropriate law enforcement agencies. As the enclosed letters indicate, federal officials ignored my efforts and requests. The Senate Committee on Ethics refused to take any action; stating refusal to obey the Constitution was “within the prerogative of each member to determine.” A Ms. Donna Hayes of the House Committee on Ethics verbally informed me the committee was not interested in pursuing this matter. This, in spite of the fact the House Ethics Manual clearly specifies that all House members, “Uphold the Constitution… of the United States and …never be a party to…[its] evasion.” As to the FBI, for the record, my name is John Guise, not FBI agent Steven E. Ibison. I believe this error alone demonstrates the level of seriousness and depth of investigation taken by FBI agent Sandra A. Bungo. In other words, the individuals named in these letters or whom I have contacted made deliberate decisions. This includes formal decisions on the part of members of Congress. Please note the letter from the Senate refers to a decision by “the Committee.” All are federal officials sworn by oath of office to obey and support the Constitution of the United States. Instead, they, through their actions, aided and abetted Congress in its violation of oath of office. No other conclusion is possible given the present evidence. Simply put, members of the FBI do not have statutory authority to refuse to notify your office of a violation of federal law by fe...

The mayor assigns the police chief and it’s his decision alone. When Stoney appointed Blackwell and now Gerard Smith from NC he has said both times he’s picked the right “man” for the job. Smith doesn’t know the Richmond community. Maybe a man isn’t equipped for this job. Richmond has never had a female chief Maybe the community should have some weigh. I’d like to give my 2 cents. Carol Adams has been a Richmond police officer for over 20 years. Weighing at 100 pounds this African American grandmother has never in her career injured a person, used lethal force and you’d be very hard to find a single person who’s met her with a bad word to say about her. But that’s not why she’s the right WOMAN. Carol knows hardship, pain, police negligence/misconduct and has paid dearly for it. Growing up in central Virginia, carols childhood wasn’t good. Her father was incredibly abusive, he’d beat her mother without mercy. Carol took many of these blows as a child trying to protect her mother. Back then DV wasn’t handled like it is today, if you can imagine it was much worse. Her and her siblings would call the police on their father, who’d do nothing. At the age of 17, her father (with her and her siblings in the home), fatally shot her mother numerous times. To this day Carol can still hear the pop, pop, pop of his gun, when she was a child her in her room. She knew he’d killed her without leaving her bedroom, he’d threatened to do it most of her life and he finally came through with that promise. Back then there was no DV that could help their family. The police made unconscionable comments about her mothers body. Carol didn’t dislike the police, she hated them. With time and help from her faith she realized, “if not me then who; if not now then when”? Carol joined the police department to make a difference. So her story wouldn’t be echoed again. Carol then created the Carol Adams Foundation dealing directly with domestic violence. She’s a well known person in communities that are often over looked, and she’s known not for being a cop but for being a part of the community. Carol was one of the first Domestic Violence nonprofits to provide equal services to men, LGBTQ community and to treat the entire family for domestic violence. In her words, we can’t just help the victim we must help the children and everyone who’s been impacted by DV. Throughout the covid crisis Carol has worked 12 hour overnight shifts to immediately go to Gilpin court to give out masks, food and other needed supplies to the community. If she’s not there then she’s helping victims and families of domestic violence, working in her community center that provides FREE daycare and educational programs to kids and adults, with her grandbabies and somewhere in between, finds time to sleep. To relive your trauma, anger everyday to help others take a strong person. It takes a selfless person. Carol is the epitome of making lemonade out of lemons. If Carol has personally taught me anything, that I will keep in my heart until I die it’s that kindness, compassion and empathy are the strongest things a person can have and everything I do I try to do with kindness (I’m not perfect but I’m trying). Candidly I don’t know if I lived through what Carol did I could be so kind. I can tell you first hand Carol has gone without to help vulnerable people. I’ve seen her do this with my own eyes. She’d literally take every stitch of clothing and dollar she had to help someone in need. But don’t take my word for it, ask the 100s of children, the women who’ve been beaten, ignored and left for dead or the folks in the community. Carols hated her father. While in prison for murdering her beautiful petite mother he was released early after developing terminal cancer, and he had nowhere to go. So Carol took him in and cared for him until he died. Because she needed to do the right thing, swallow that pain, anger and loss and be the better person. That alone is a level of love I don’t think I or most people I know would have the capacity for. That’s a saintly act right there.

Whereas, the United States Declaration of Independence states – “...governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;” and Whereas, Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the US Constitution protects the time honored right to the Writ of Habeas Corpus; and Whereas the US Bill of Rights protects the rights of free speech, of the press, to peaceable assembly, to petition the government for a redress of grievances and the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures except upon the issue of warrants based on probable cause, and supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized;” and Whereas, the “War on Terror” is being used to turn the United States of America into a battleground in which citizens are seen as suspects and enemy combatants; and Whereas, the primary tool in the “War on Terror” is the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001; and Whereas, The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 violates the US Constitution for the following reasons – 1. Section 215 violates the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution in that it allows the FBI to obtain warrants without probable cause. This can include warrants for surveillance and/or the access to “any tangible thing” thereby allowing the surveillance and search innocent people based solely on the suspicion (as opposed to probable cause) that they may be involved in a crime or terrorist activity. 2. Section 505 provides for the the expanded use of FBI National Security Letters. These letters strip the recipient of the right to free speech via gag orders and the targets of these letters are stripped of 4th Amendment protections against warrant-less searches, searches lacking probable cause, and judicial review of warrants. Additionally, the targets of National Security Letters are robbed of the right to know the places to be searched and the items to be seized. 3. Its amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) promotes government secrecy – the direct antithesis to a free and open society. 4. Additionally, its amendments to FISA have paved the way for massive spying on US citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA). This spying includes, but is not limited to, the warrant-less collection of cell phone metadata on ALL US Citizens , warrant-less collection of internet search data on All US citizens, warrant-less collection of email data of ALL US citizens and the warrant-less collection of webpages visited by ALL US citizens. All of this data collection is done regardless of whether these US citizens have been involved in a crime or terrorist activity. 5. The amendments to FISA are also being used to collect the same type of data outlined in #4 on citizens of friendly nations such as Britain and France. 6. It is stripping US citizens of their 1st Amendment protected right to speak out against, and inform their fellow citizens of, government abuses to the US Constitution and turning these “whistle-blowers” into criminals and fugitives. 7. In creating a battleground in the the United States of America in the so-called “War on Terror” –- American citizens can be designated as enemy combatants making them subject to summary execution by the president of the United States thereby stripping them of their recognized right of habeas corpus and trial by jury and virtually all the rights protected by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. 8. An additional consequence of creating a battleground in the United States is the rapid militarization of domestic sheriff and police forces through the Pentagon's donation of surplus military equipment program. This is breeding an atmosphere in which military tactics are used to carry out routine sheriff and police activity and an environment in which weaponry meant for use in a foreign war is being used against American citizens. 9. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 is being used as the basis for the actual assassination (ordered by President Barack Obama) of American citizens abroad, thereby robbing these citizens of their recognized right of habeas corpus, trial by jury and virtually all the rights protected by the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. 10. It has helped paved the way for the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year of 2012 (NDAA) which authorizes the arrest of US citizens and lawful residents by military personal and the indefinite detention US citizens and lawful residents without charge or trial. 11. Additionally, the NDAA allows for the transfer of US citizens to a foreign land or entity without charge or trial and for trial by military tribunal. All of this is in direct violation of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. 12. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 is being used as the basis for the longest running wars in the history of the United States of America. All of these wars violate Art...

The ink wasn't dry on the Constitution when the imagined nobility of a Machiavellian mentality and hereditary privilege began on-going sabotage of our constitutionally mandated "Republican Form of government." "Would you believe it possible that in this country there should be high & important characters [Corporatecrafters united with Christiancrafters] who need your lessons in republicanism, & who do not heed them? It is but too true that we have a sect preaching up & pouting after an English constitution of king, lords, & commons, & whose heads are itching for crowns, coronets & mitres. But our people, my good friend, are firm and unanimous in their principles of republicanism & there is no better proof of it than that they love what you write and read it [Rights of Man] with delight." -- Thomas Jefferson Letter of June 19, 1792 to Thomas Paine. After inspiring the American Revolution via "Common Sense" Paine closed his argument for armed conflict with "Four Letters On Interesting Subjects" written between May 22 and July 2, 1776 just prior to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. At the close of Letter III Paine wrote: "As to Corporations themselves, they are without exception so many badges of kingly tyranny, and tend like every other species of useless pomp, to the oppression and impoverishment of the place, without one single advantage arising from them. They keep up a perpetual spirit of distinction and faction, engross emoluments and advantages to themselves, which ought to be employed to better purposes, and generally get into quarrels and lawsuits with the other part of the inhabitants. They diminish the freedom of every place where they exist.... But of all Corporations that of Philadelphia is the most obnoxious, its power resembling that of an hermaphrodite, or is at least a kind of aristocratical Corporation made hereditary by adoption"[ and "person" via Supreme legal fiction]. Jefferson observed that "virtue and interest are inseparable. It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of its people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall, on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing for the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Jefferson Letter of November 12, 1816 to George Logan. "If the concentered powers of this combination are entrusted to a single man, it is a kingly prerogative, inconsistent with our form of government, and should be subject to the strong resistance of the State and National authorities. If anything is wrong this is wrong. If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life. If we would not submit to an emperor we should not submit to an autocrat of trade, with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity." -- Senator John Sherman, 1890 Session of U.S. Congress, (21 Cong. Record 2457), cited from The Court Years, p.156 and authored by Justice William O. Douglas. "Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress and touches even the ermine of the bench. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the possessors of these in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty." -- Populist Party of 1892. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad." "These economic royalists [of Corporatecraft] complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. These economic royalists are unanimous in their hate for me---and I welcome their hatred." "We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob....I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt WE THE PEOPLE must take the Corporate monster by its pointed tail and end its endless pilfering from the U.S. Treasury via legislative and judicial legal fiction. WE must demand that the fair tax rate of 92% imposed on the Corporations in the 1950s be imposed today and be an on-going rate forevermore. No more welfare checks in any form for the multi-millionaire and billionaire, especially in the form of tax breaks. Once our constitutional Republic is cleansed of all cancerous corruptive forces it will flourish under the true egalitarian and economic system as intended by the Founders...