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# of Kids: 2

Body Type: Average

Height: 5'0"

Religion: Other

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

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Believe in something and believe it with every fiber of your being! EDUCATE YOURSELF and use your first amendment right to the freedom of expression! My first amendment right is protected by the fact that EVERYONE has that same right - even if we disagree. PLEASE get passionate about OUR government. No matter what "side" you are on - Get educated and get involved!

I will respect your difference of opinion and your right to have it...until we're not ALLOWED to have opinions anymore!

"Liberty has never come from the government; it has always come from the subjects of it.The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it".
- Woodrow Wilson

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
- Samuel Adams

Our Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution of limited powers and an explicit Bill of Rights to protect liberty in times of war, as well as in times of peace.
Do YOU know what your rights are?

Threat Level to Gun Ownership:
Orange (high)
Threat Level to Personal Privacy:
Red (severe)
Threat Level to Free Speech:
Red (severe)

"Of course there is no doubt that, if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America. Preserving our freedom is one of the main reasons that we are now engaged in this new war on terrorism. We will lose that war without firing a shot if we sacrifice the liberties of the American people."
-Senator Russ Feingold
(The only senator who voted against the Patriot Act)

The Patriot Act has made the above quote a reality in America.

First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, and Eighth Amendment. These unconstitutional laws take away half of the Bill of Rights. Why aren't there more American citizens in an uproar? PLEASE people OPEN YOUR EYES!

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

Is Ben referring to YOU?

The Patriot Act was Reauthorized on March 9, 2006

The biggest distributor of misinformation about the Patriot Act has been the government.
I know, that's pretty shocking....

The only way to bring about change is by voting. Vote in every election from local to national levels. If you are not registered PLEASE get registered.

ITS YOUR VOICE, DON'T BE SILENT!!

I support Ron Paul for President in 2008. Here is why....

This youtube video was put together by my friend Chon. The images are from our Ron Paul fundraiser here in San Antonio.

Do you know who you support? And have you looked into ALL of the candidates?

Please check out Project Vote Smart to help you make an INFORMED decision. You can "follow the money" at Political Money Line, favors are always repaid to those that contribute to campaigns.

"The time has come for all Americans—especially the members of a Congress which claims to represent us—to decide what they believe in. Do we stand for lying, spying, and torture? Or do we stand for truth, freedom, and justice? Impeachment is a self-evident moral imperative and we hope that all people of conscience will join us in sending Washington a resounding message that to allow Bush and Cheney to continue ruling as self-appointed "decider's" makes a mockery of our most basic values and the very notion of democracy."
- Jacob Park

"We’re trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks, you know, and the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn’t just inevitable to have violence, not just war - all forms of violence. People just accept it and think ‘oh they did it, or Harold Wilson (British prime minister at the time) did it, or Nixon did it, they’re always scapegoating people. And It isn’t Nixon’s fault, we’re all responsible for everything that goes on, you know, we’re all responsible for Biafra and Hitler and everything. So we’re just saying SELL PEACE, anybody interested in peace just stick it in the window, it’s simple but it lets somebody else know that you want peace too, because you feel alone if you’re the only one thinking ‘wouldn’t it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed', so advertise yourself that you’re for peace if you believe in it."
- John Lennon, June 14th 1969

Movies:

Books:

I LOVE TO READ!
I feel like Johnny 5, from Short Circuit, "more innnnpuut"!

I read a lot of congressional law, so it takes me FOREVER to finish a book in between all of the public law =D. With that being said I just finished A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah. It was an AMAZING book. I am currently reading THE ASSAULT ON REASON By Al Gore. So far it is a REALLY great book - with a lot of input!

Likes:

SAVE THE HONEY BEES!!

Would you give up your cell phone to save the bees?

Honey bee colonies in the U.S. are overworked and under-appreciated. They are the world’s most important pollinators of many fruits, vegetables and seed crops, contributing billions of dollars in value to agriculture and our diet. Bees also pollinate wildflowers in our natural ecosystems and much of what we plant in our home gardens. Without honey bees, and other bee pollinators, the produce section in our grocery stores would have about 1/3 fewer fruits and vegetables and it is impossible to estimate how many flowers would not set seed.

In the US alone, the East Coast has recently lost 70% of its commercial bee population, with the West Coast not far behind those numbers. Apparently it's a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), when colonies essentially cease to be (no pun intended).
German research has long shown that bees' behavior changes near power lines. Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby....Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."

Dislikes:

The Military Commissions Act of 2006

S.3930 became law on October 17, 2006 (public law 109-366). Now that is a scary piece of legislation!

Think about this quote while reading the "cliff-notes" of the Military Commissions Act........

"By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Cliff Notes" for the Military Commissions Act:

1. Strip the US courts of jurisdiction to hear or consider habeas corpus appeals challenging the lawfulness or conditions of detention of anyone held in US custody as an "enemy combatant". Judicial review of cases would be severely limited. The law would apply retroactively, and thus could result in more than 200 pending appeals filed on behalf of Guantánamo detainees being thrown out of court.

2. Prohibit any person from invoking the Geneva Conventions or their protocols as a source of rights in any action in any US court.

3. Permit the executive to convene military commissions to try "alien unlawful enemy combatants", as determined by the executive under a dangerously broad definition, in trials that would provide foreign nationals so labeled with a lower standard of justice than US citizens accused of the same crimes. This would violate the prohibition on the discriminatory application of fair trial rights.

4. Permit civilians captured far from any battlefield to be tried by military commission rather than civilian courts, contradicting international standards and case law.

5. Establish military commissions whose impartiality, independence and competence would be in doubt, due to the overarching role that the executive, primarily the Secretary of Defense, would play in their procedures and in the appointments of military judges and military officers to sit on the commissions.

6. Permit, in violation of international law, the use of evidence extracted under cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or as a result of "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating or degrading treatment", as defined under international law.

7. Permit the use of classified evidence against a defendant, without the defendant necessarily being able effectively to challenge the "sources, methods or activities" by which the government acquired the evidence. This is of particular concern in light of the high level of secrecy and resort to national security arguments employed by the administration in the "war on terror", which have been widely criticized, including by the UN Committee against Torture and the Human Rights Committee. Amnesty International is concerned that the administration appears on occasion to have resorted to classification to prevent independent scrutiny of human rights violations.

8. Give the military commissions the power to hand down death sentences, in contravention of international standards which only permit capital punishment after trials affording "all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial". The clemency authority would be the President. President Bush has led a pattern of official public commentary on the presumed guilt of the detainees, and has overseen a system that has systematically denied the rights of detainees.

9. Limit the right of charged detainees to be represented by counsel of their choosing.

10. Fail to provide any guarantee that trials will be conducted within a reasonable time.

11. Permit the executive to determine who is an "enemy combatant" under any "competent tribunal" established by the executive, and endorse the Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT), the wholly inadequate administrative procedure that has been employed in Guantánamo to review individual detentions.

12. Narrow the scope of the War Crimes Act by not expressly criminalizing acts that constitute "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating and degrading treatment" banned under Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions. Amnesty International believes that the USA has routinely failed to respect the human dignity of detainees in the "war on terror".

13. Prohibit the US courts from using "foreign or international law" to inform their decisions in relation to the War Crimes Act. The President has the authority to "interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions". Under President Bush, the USA has shown a selective disregard for the Geneva Conventions and the absolute prohibition of torture or other ill-treatment.

14. Endorse the administration’s "war paradigm" – under which the USA has selectively applied the laws of war and rejected international human rights law. The legislation would backdate the "war on terror" to before the 11 September 2001 in order to be able to try individuals in front of military commissions for "war crimes" committed before that date.

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers ... as fear."
-Edmund Burke

Hobbies:

Talking politics and religion. Yes, I know that those are the two things you are NOT supposed to talk about, however we NEED to have an open discussion going on in our society. My thought is that it would be a really boring place if we all thought the same, therefore I can have an ADULT conversation on these issues and respect opposing view points. A society needs to have the open discussions so that it may then use REASON to make informed decisions.

"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." -Lactantius

Vices:

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -Abraham Lincoln

"If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it."

Virtues:

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” -Buddha

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." -David Starr Jordan

Heroes:

The members of the 93 Congress that helped save our country from Richard Nixon's sinister abuses. They upheld their constitutional role to serve as an INDEPENDENT and COEQUAL branch of government. They did not allow their partisanships to get in the way of doing what was right.

AND

The 3 billion people who live on less than $2 a day

A documentary film by John Pilger

'Global economy' is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald's, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalisation of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water.

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Today's Rants

Thursday, August 23, 2007, 11:11 PM EST [General]

King Dubya insists that his dictatorship is not subject to the same laws as previous administrations. He absolutely will not comply with the Freedom of Information Act. So screw you, America.

Slave States of America. If the American economy is doing so good, then why is it that 90% of us are the worst off we've been since WWII. 16 more months of Bush, and we're going to need another Emancipation Proclamation.

Ah, if only the horrors of Vietnam had gone on forever. George "Quagmire" Bush says Iraq = Vietnam. I'd say this is more like early WWII, and he's Hitler. Fear the draft, they didn't float those balloons about bringing it back for nothing.

Bush's ex-ambassador to the UN John Bolton says he hopes the US nukes Iran, soon. Have you noticed the only terrorists actually threatening to nuke anybody are all US politicians?

Republican priorities. Four and a half years into the Iraq war, and the Pentagon still can't get armored vehicles to the troops. [ AP] [Reuters ] Maybe they're just too busy daydreaming about another war with Iran.

Traditional Values Christianity. Cabarrus County commissioner and former Christian Action League's president (a Baptist minister!), Coy Privette (R) plead guilty to charges of renting prostitutes, in Jesus name.

Who ya gotta' blow to get a journalism gig? Rightard propaganda outlet WorldNetDaily hires gay porn star and escort Matt Sanchez. Think they'll keep him late, working overtime on "special assignments?" You know, like "research" for all the anti-gay articles they publish.

America is no longer the home of the free and the brave. It's now the home of cowards who have surrendered their freedom to fascists offering vague promises of "homeland security."