Ensure the safety of the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2021. Hold the ceremony indoors in the capitol rotunda and require that there is adequate security. Don't allow a replay of the violence we saw at the Capitol during the certification of the electoral vote.

Petition summary: We need to support the nuclear deal with Iran. The alternative is a regional war which could prove disastrous for our allies. Sanctions have only escalated Iran’s nuclear program. To provide security the deal must lead to generalized, permanent arms control. As General of the Army Omar Bradley said, “We had better soon get ourselves under control and begin making the world safe for living.” —————————————————— The petition in full: The United States, as part of the P5+1 (USA and our allies the UK, France, plus Germany and the EU; also Russia and China), has taken a major step toward preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. We need to support the deal with Iran. The alternative is war. Not just an attack but a boots-on-the-ground war. Meir Dagan, head of the Mossad (Israel’s CIA), from 2002 to 2011, warned that an attack on Iran “would mean regional war, and in that case you would have given Iran the best possible reason to continue the nuclear program.” He further warned that, “The regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible.” Meir Dagan and other retired Israeli intelligence and military have warned against Netanyahu and other “hotheads.” The hotheads’ alarmist views require analysis and challenge.  They should not be allowed to frame the debate. Robert Gates, head of the CIA under George H.W. Bush, defense secretary under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has said bombing Iran could prove a “catastrophe,” and that Iran’s “capacity to wage a series of terror attacks across the Middle East aimed at us and our friends, and dramatically worsen the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere is hard to overestimate.” A military strike would delay a bomb by 3-5 years while the deal could delay it 10-20 years or more. Would more sanctions against Iran work? Look at the evidence: After imposition of sanctions in 2006 Iran went from a few hundred centrifuges to 22,000 centrifuges. From enriching below 5 percent to enriching to 20 percent. From one model of centrifuge to eight models of centrifuges, including highly developed centrifuges. All while sanctions were in place. [Note: The deal requires Iran to get rid of 98% of it’s low-enriched uranium stockpile. It limits Iran to 3.7% enrichment. Bomb grade is at least 90%] There is no chance that our allies would continue sanctions as long as Iran continues to abide by the agreement. Congress needs to work with the administration for strong implementation of the accord and action against Iran’s bad actions in the region and toward its own people (Iran’s dissidents overwhelmingly support the deal).  As Iran supports Hezbollah and Hamas, we need to support Israel.    We can co-operate with Iran on its good actions such as its fight against ISIL. Is this deal enough? Certainly not. It should serve as the start of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. Voices in Saudi Arabia once advocated a weapons-of-mass-destruction free zone in the Middle East, even if Israel did not participate. We were wrong in not pursuing it then but we don’t have to be wrong now. We need to take the lead. Would a weapons-of-mass-destruction free zone in the Middle East be enough? No, as conventional weapons today can be extraordinarily destructive. Nor is it enough for one region only to demilitarize. “Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative,” said President Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the Nation. General Omar Bradley said "Our plight is critical, and with each effort we have made to relieve it by further scientific advance, we have succeeded only in aggravating our peril…If we are going to save ourselves from the instruments of our own intellect, we had better soon get ourselves under control and begin making the world safe for living."

We, the community and commuters along Kenilworth Avenue and Riverdale Road oppose the revised concept for the Riverdale Park Purple Line Station. The State has approved the construction of the Purple Line from New Carrollton to Bethesda. This $5.6 billion project will not only improve transportation for our Riverdale residents but with appropriate design, it can bring economic revitalization to our community and our county. The Central Kenilworth Avenue Revitalization Community Development Corporation (CKAR CDC) fully supports The Purple Line but we are also mindful that the community will have to live with design decisions made by the State and the County for decades. CKAR’s concern is the decision to redesign the elevated Riverdale Park Station using a solid concrete wall support at this major intersection. The wall will be over 500 feet long (more than two football fields) and 26 feet high. This imposing structure would visually and physically divide our community in half. We already have to contend with the six-lane East-West Highway and Kenilworth Avenue at this location. Adding a wall of this magnitude would stifle economic growth that could happen with a positive transit solution that is open, well-lighted, generates quality increased economic development, provides safe crossings, increases overhead weather coverage for its patrons, provides elevators and stairs with uninterrupted visibility from grade to discourage crime and that incorporates public art. To revitalize Riverdale, we as residents, must be sensitive to design issues that will compromise our ability to make this an attractive community that we are all proud to live and work in. No less is being done for the stations in Bethesda or at the University of Maryland. Riverdale Park is the only elevated station on The Purple Line in Prince George’s County. Its design should not be sacrificed in the state’s effort to save money. MTA estimates the savings would be less than one percent of the total project. Will we be proud of the Riverdale Park Station or will it be an ever-present eyesore?

Whereas, since 1948 and the Nakba in Palestine, it has been the policy of Israel to drive the Palestinians out of their homes and villages and take their land. Whereas, During the final month of George W. Bush’s Administration ending January 2009, the Israeli military attack on Gaza resulted more than 1400 Palestinian deaths, 400 of them children. Whereas, The United Nations Human Rights Council investigated this attack in 2009 and issued what is referred to as the Goldstone Report. The United States House of Representatives by HR 867 on the 23rd of October 2009 voted to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the ‘‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’’ … Whereas, “The United States Foreign Assistance Act stipulates that no aid may be provided to a country that engages in a consistent pattern of violations of international human rights laws.” Whereas, PM Netanyahu and Israel’s Likud Party are disingenuous about their intensions for a future Palestinian State and are continuing their illegal settlement expansion and colonization of the Occupied Territories that is preventing any real negotiations. Whereas, Zionists in Israel and in United States seek to block discussion and debate concerning Israel’s 46 years of military occupation. Whereas, the United States Government has become under the excessive influence of Israeli agents and is spending billions on Israel’s military occupation every year and is no longer acting in the best interests of Americans. Be it resolved, that the People of the United States have every right to expect Israel to respect international laws and agreements made to the State Department under The United States Foreign Assistance Act. Be it resolved, since the continued expansion of Jewish settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory is preventing the resumption of peace talks, the State Department and Congress should stop funding Israel’s military occupation until all settlement activity is suspended and there is a comprehensive agreement with the Palestinians for a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.

Precedence has long been set that when a leader acts in ways uniquely unprecedented in history, new words are added to the English language to reflect that behavior. Consider, for example, the Oedipus Complex, the Napoleon Complex, and the word quisling. The word quisling (meaning apostate, backstabber, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, Judas, recreant, serpent, snake, traitor) was added during WWII, to commemorate the actions of Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian army officer who in 1933 founded Norway's fascist party. In December 1939, he met with Adolf Hitler and urged him to occupy Norway. Following the German invasion of April 1940, Quisling served as a figurehead in the puppet government set up by the German occupation forces, and his linguistic fate was sealed. Before the end of 1940, "quisling" was being used generically in English to refer to any traitor. Winston Churchill, George Orwell, and H. G. Wells used it in their wartime writings. Quisling lived to see his name thus immortalized, but not much longer. He was executed for treason soon after the liberation of Norway in 1945. (Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary). It is for this reason, the signatories below are petitioning Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the American people, and English speakers worldwide to add the following words to the English lexicon. Entrumped (verb): the act of a country’s leader ordering his troops to turn their backs on an ally despite military advice and honor. Usage: After years of working alongside their American allies to defeat a common enemy, the Kurdish people along with their American allies were entrumped. Trumpish (adjective): (1) Describes any lie, or extreme exaggeration, presented as the truth. (2) Describes the act of disseminating or promoting trumpish behavior. Usage: This blog post feels trumpish to me. His arguments are trumpish. I am tired of all the trumpishness. Furthermore, the signatories below commit to using these new words, which will for all time commemorate President Trump, in their daily conversations and in their social media comments, #entrumped, #trumpish.

US Federal District Court: Order Trump's Psychiatric Evaluation and present results to the voters before 2016 general election. Joint Fight! Visit NuVisionGroup.org to watch Video and More Several prominent mental health professionals publicly expressed their opinions about Mr. Trump’s mental health, and quite confident Mr. Trump is mentally ill. As voters, however, we cannot rely on remote evaluation of Mr. Trump’s mental health, nor allow presumably insane person to be elected as the President of the United States. The voters need official Trump’s mental health evaluation by panel of reputable mental health professional appointed by court.

US Federal District Court: Order Trump's Psychiatric Evaluation and present results to the voters before 2016 general election. Joint Fight! Visit NuVisionGroup.org to watch Video and More Several prominent mental health professionals publicly expressed their opinions about Mr. Trump’s mental health, and quite confident Mr. Trump is mentally ill. As voters, however, we cannot rely on remote evaluation of Mr. Trump’s mental health, nor allow presumably insane person to be elected as the President of the United States. The voters need official Trump’s mental health evaluation by panel of reputable mental health professional appointed by court.

Please take immediate action to expand the protected areas offshore of the northern California Coast by creating a marine monument through executive order that would ensure preservation of the ocean areas defined in Representative Lynn Woolsey’s bill HR 192. The proposal to expand the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries from Marin north through the entire Sonoma Coast to Point Arena in southern Mendocino County outlined in HR 192 has wide support from California’s Governor, elected officials, local governments, the Marin County Board of Supervisors, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, fishing organizations, businesses, chambers of commerce and environmental groups. The creation of a new marine monument would ensure that this vital area would be protected so it can continue to provide jobs for the coastal economy, the tourism industry, and the commercial and recreational fishing communities. Act today to show support for the millions of California residents that supported you in the recent Presidential election by creating an expansive marine monument that will augment the successful National Marine Sanctuary system offshore of our state.

I am requesting legislation that will repeal in its entirety Section 508 of the Texas Government Code. Also, I request the framework within the new, replacing section include retroactive language, which removes the systemic oppression, by mandating that work time credit and good time credit are now expressly, individually, and collectively applicable for parole eligibility and consideration for all offenders not under the sentence of death.

NoBushClinton2016 is a rallying cry for action to end the Bush and Clinton dynasties and take a new direction in national leadership. Limiting choice to two families is a major threat to the republic and the interests of its citizens. The Bushes and Clintons, historically entrenched in the distorted system of money politics, are not likely to confront it.