who knew "gaydar" was such an explosive issue. Could you image if someone said the Gaza is simply a gulag? Wayne
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From: stanley blanc <butch_blanc@yahoo.ca>
To: "Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com" <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
To: "Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com" <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
Of course women "use" it. Most women can tell if a guy is gay after they know him for a while.
As far as "butchest" is concerned (I hate that because "butch" meant a tough guy not just gay or lesbian either)
I have laways found it to be the straight guy's "radar" so he wouldn't end up talking to a gay guy or flirted with by a gay guy.
Â
I find "gaydar" to be insulting an ddiscriminatory towards Gays.
Â
O.K. Enough of that for me.
Bye now,
Butch (oh yeah and that nickname was given to me when I was 6 weeks old! in 1949 before Lesbians or Gays
 even tried to be known that way as it would have attracted attention etc.)
Moderator Why we discussing this? Gaydar by defination is known be something possessed by homosexuals, not by straight people. Where do you people make up this stuff, or get your information? Now please drop the subject. This is nausiating me. How long did you think the moderator would stay quiet bewfore he would get a mental breakdown? i know with in 3 more more messgaes, God will be mentioned. ... lololol ....jake
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From: "nelsonmount@aol.com" <nelsonmount@aol.com>
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
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gaydar used by women ? hmmmmmm  the butchest  of gay men still use it
-----Original Message-----
From: stanley blanc <butch_blanc@yahoo.ca>
To: Peckers_Pics <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 8:49 am
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
Re conformism among gays:
Â
 I haven't been around the Gay areas in Toronto more than 2 hours (I'll explain when that happened below) for years but it used to be that everyone dressed similarly whether fems or masculine gays to a great extent, in Toronto anyway.
Last summer I went to dinner with a sraight friend of mine's Gay cousin in the main Gay area of toornto and things had changed: it was hard to tell who was straight an dwho was gay. Oh by the way I hate "Gaydar" its really a Queenie thing that's been adopted by straight women more than straight men.
Love you all.
Butch
________________________________
From: Wayne Finegan <waynefinegan15@yahoo.com>
To: "Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com" <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
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This is an interesting discussion. I am not wedded to any idea, but I would like to throw out this thought, gay men as a group can be as equally
regimental and conformist as straight society. This is not to say, I do not love being gay and do not love being part of a gay community.
I especially enjoy the benefits of the gay community when it comes to feeling protected against the homophobic world. I guess what I would say is we have done well, but there is always room for improvement. Wayne
________________________________
From: Mark Fischer <fischerwdc@gmail.com>
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 7:15 PM
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But some of us think before we conform . . . We only conform when it makes sense to conform . . . That's how so many people of my generation (age 62) managed to have self-respect and self-worth as well as meaningful productive lives in the face of societal hostility based upon our natural-born sexual orientation.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Wayne Finegan <waynefinegan15@yahoo.com> wrote:
Â
>Regardless, we all conform to societal norms. Wayne
>
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>From: Terry <smooth_op_85@yahoo.com>
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>Gay writer saw progress: I've seen two clashing ideas presented by the gay community and those outside of it, that we want to be treated equally and then the thought that we ARE actually different and don't have to conform, and both are true. I shouldn't have to conform to the hetero society around me because people are uncomfortable of the thought of two men being intimate, but out sexuality is not all there is to me.
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>It is amazing also the lack of sensitivity that the police can have because of who we are and who they think we are. It's crazy to wonder about the reaction of the police when you've been bashed or sexual orientation is a cause for a crime. Sometimes we'd rather be wronged than have to deal with police because they have the power and sometimes exercise it to harm us even more. Rick Perry highlights this danger and harm because this is coming from a sitting Governor and Presidential hopeful, and this keeps on coming from other people too. They are what's wrong with this country
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>By NEIL STEINBERG / December 11, 2011 / Sun Times
>>
>>Back in the 1980s, when newspapers wouldn't identify the companions of homosexuals in their obituaries, since it was against our style rules, I knew exactly one gay man in Chicago: Paul Varnell.
>>
>>We met in a church on Belmont Avenue. The Town Hall cops were holding a meeting -- outreach to the gay community -- and a smirking night editor thought it might yield a good story. C'mon, he said -- big burly cops and gays. See what you can do with it!
>>
>>So I headed to Boystown. The grim reality of the meeting was a jarring contrast to how it had been presented. The police had actually brought along a sex crimes speaker, who dryly delivered a 1950s talk on rape -- I guess in their mind they equated gays with sex crime. The audience was unruly and aghast, and when the time came for comments, they lambasted the officers.
>>
>>"I've been mugged and I've been arrested," said Varnell. "And I'd rather be mugged."
>>
>>That's a great quote, clearly expressing the situation -- our big problem isn't crime, our big problem is you. But that's what Varnell did, for years, as an activist and columnist for Chicago's gay publications.
>>
>>"Think about being a gay columnist," I wrote in 2009, when he was let go from his last paper due to budget cuts. "Many gay men can't bear to tell their family, their closest friends, about their orientation, still, even to this day, and not without reason given the various fears and hatreds they expose themselves to. And here's Paul, parsing the details of his personal life, his HIV-positive status, the issues facing the community.
>>
>>"And not in a doctrinaire way -- it's easy to serve a minority group by pandering to it, by defending its every step and misstep. Paul is too smart for that, and often wondered whether it was a false generalization to even speak of a gay community at all."
>>
>>"I am not sure that sexual orientation makes us a community," Varnell wrote in 2008. "I think I have more in common with the thoughtful heterosexual man who likes music and art and literature than I do with a gay man who loves drag queens, 'divas,' and hip-hop. As hostility to gays lessens and gay people's defensive clannishness declines, other factors than sexuality will become more important in our lives." One hopes.
>>
>>That was his constant theme: the path of gays leads to assimilation within society, not living apart in radicalized gay ghettos.
>>
>>It seems fitting that he would die -- of pneumonia Dec. 9, at age 70 -- just as the nation was reacting to a loathsome campaign commercial that Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, aired in a desperate attempt to boost his sinking presidential bid.
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>>"I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian," Perry says, "But you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas in school."
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>>"The bad news," Varnell wrote in 1994, "is that these people seem to hate and fear us. The good news is that they seem to be a bunch of raving loonies, without a clear grasp of what to do or what they are up against."
>>
>>He was referring to an anti-gay conference in Colorado.
>>
>>"Almost touchingly, they all seem to agree, as one speaker put it, that homosexuality, 'destroy[s] the souls and the lives of those who embrace it.' And somehow they fail to realize that the ordinary lives of millions of happy, productive gays and lesbians daily undermine those perceptions in the minds of most people. They really do not understand why we have made the political, social, and cultural progress we have. Lacking an explanatory model for our progress -- or indeed for the last thirty years of social change -- they floundered around for a way to reverse it."
>>
>>"This suggests," Varnell continued, "that what would work best for us is an approach that emphasizes sharing our common humanity rather than attacking the mainstream and portraying ourselves as an aggrieved, victimized and petulant minority. It is, after all, the homophobes who are the sad, isolated, troubled little clot of obscurantists."
>>True then, truer now, more so each day.
>>
>>http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/9381435-452/gay-writer-saw-path-to-progress.htmlEvery gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil ofgrowing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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>
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>Required by 99%]
>In 1776, representatives of the residents in thirteen North
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>
>The ninety-nine percent are held back by the actions and whims
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>the poor and middle classes; politicians have pledged to enact
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>news media businesses have adopted clear ideological perspectives
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>United States Senate has adopted rules that require almost all
>legislation to find support from many more than half plus one
>members of the chamber, making a mockery of the idea of unlimited
>debate established by the nation's founders; and candidates for
>public office have created the endless election cycle in their
>quest to hold onto their offices once acquired.
>
>These are reasons for deep concern regarding the future of this
>nation. Their mitigation and elimination require substantial
>action. Citizens that have occupied Wall Street, Oakland, the
>tundra, Albany, and other places have taken the first step in
>calling attention to the plight of the ninety-nine percent and
>the power of the one percent. This petition is the next. We seek
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>the deficiencies that have arisen in this country. We seek the
>means to rebuild our communities and the support to fulfill our
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>We offer involvement in our cities, towns, and villages. We offer
>engagement with those that need. We offer ourselves to the
>betterment of our country and the future. We offer participation
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>and self-absorption. We offer to be active, American citizens.
>
>Bear ÃÆ'¢â‚¬â€œ 8 November 2011
>
>Sign Petition @
>https://www.change.org/petitions/the-proposed-petition-for-redress-and-pledge-of-action
>
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>
>
>
>
>Â
As far as "butchest" is concerned (I hate that because "butch" meant a tough guy not just gay or lesbian either)
I have laways found it to be the straight guy's "radar" so he wouldn't end up talking to a gay guy or flirted with by a gay guy.
Â
I find "gaydar" to be insulting an ddiscriminatory towards Gays.
Â
O.K. Enough of that for me.
Bye now,
Butch (oh yeah and that nickname was given to me when I was 6 weeks old! in 1949 before Lesbians or Gays
 even tried to be known that way as it would have attracted attention etc.)
Moderator Why we discussing this? Gaydar by defination is known be something possessed by homosexuals, not by straight people. Where do you people make up this stuff, or get your information? Now please drop the subject. This is nausiating me. How long did you think the moderator would stay quiet bewfore he would get a mental breakdown? i know with in 3 more more messgaes, God will be mentioned. ... lololol ....jake
________________________________
From: "nelsonmount@aol.com" <nelsonmount@aol.com>
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
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gaydar used by women ? hmmmmmm  the butchest  of gay men still use it
-----Original Message-----
From: stanley blanc <butch_blanc@yahoo.ca>
To: Peckers_Pics <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 8:49 am
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
Re conformism among gays:
Â
 I haven't been around the Gay areas in Toronto more than 2 hours (I'll explain when that happened below) for years but it used to be that everyone dressed similarly whether fems or masculine gays to a great extent, in Toronto anyway.
Last summer I went to dinner with a sraight friend of mine's Gay cousin in the main Gay area of toornto and things had changed: it was hard to tell who was straight an dwho was gay. Oh by the way I hate "Gaydar" its really a Queenie thing that's been adopted by straight women more than straight men.
Love you all.
Butch
________________________________
From: Wayne Finegan <waynefinegan15@yahoo.com>
To: "Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com" <Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
Â
This is an interesting discussion. I am not wedded to any idea, but I would like to throw out this thought, gay men as a group can be as equally
regimental and conformist as straight society. This is not to say, I do not love being gay and do not love being part of a gay community.
I especially enjoy the benefits of the gay community when it comes to feeling protected against the homophobic world. I guess what I would say is we have done well, but there is always room for improvement. Wayne
________________________________
From: Mark Fischer <fischerwdc@gmail.com>
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Model Wars-Dec 12, 2011-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
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But some of us think before we conform . . . We only conform when it makes sense to conform . . . That's how so many people of my generation (age 62) managed to have self-respect and self-worth as well as meaningful productive lives in the face of societal hostility based upon our natural-born sexual orientation.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Wayne Finegan <waynefinegan15@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Regardless, we all conform to societal norms. Wayne
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>Gay writer saw progress: I've seen two clashing ideas presented by the gay community and those outside of it, that we want to be treated equally and then the thought that we ARE actually different and don't have to conform, and both are true. I shouldn't have to conform to the hetero society around me because people are uncomfortable of the thought of two men being intimate, but out sexuality is not all there is to me.
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>It is amazing also the lack of sensitivity that the police can have because of who we are and who they think we are. It's crazy to wonder about the reaction of the police when you've been bashed or sexual orientation is a cause for a crime. Sometimes we'd rather be wronged than have to deal with police because they have the power and sometimes exercise it to harm us even more. Rick Perry highlights this danger and harm because this is coming from a sitting Governor and Presidential hopeful, and this keeps on coming from other people too. They are what's wrong with this country
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>Gay writer saw path to progress
>By NEIL STEINBERG / December 11, 2011 / Sun Times
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>>Back in the 1980s, when newspapers wouldn't identify the companions of homosexuals in their obituaries, since it was against our style rules, I knew exactly one gay man in Chicago: Paul Varnell.
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>>We met in a church on Belmont Avenue. The Town Hall cops were holding a meeting -- outreach to the gay community -- and a smirking night editor thought it might yield a good story. C'mon, he said -- big burly cops and gays. See what you can do with it!
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>>So I headed to Boystown. The grim reality of the meeting was a jarring contrast to how it had been presented. The police had actually brought along a sex crimes speaker, who dryly delivered a 1950s talk on rape -- I guess in their mind they equated gays with sex crime. The audience was unruly and aghast, and when the time came for comments, they lambasted the officers.
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>>"I've been mugged and I've been arrested," said Varnell. "And I'd rather be mugged."
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>>That's a great quote, clearly expressing the situation -- our big problem isn't crime, our big problem is you. But that's what Varnell did, for years, as an activist and columnist for Chicago's gay publications.
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>>"Think about being a gay columnist," I wrote in 2009, when he was let go from his last paper due to budget cuts. "Many gay men can't bear to tell their family, their closest friends, about their orientation, still, even to this day, and not without reason given the various fears and hatreds they expose themselves to. And here's Paul, parsing the details of his personal life, his HIV-positive status, the issues facing the community.
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>>"And not in a doctrinaire way -- it's easy to serve a minority group by pandering to it, by defending its every step and misstep. Paul is too smart for that, and often wondered whether it was a false generalization to even speak of a gay community at all."
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>>"I am not sure that sexual orientation makes us a community," Varnell wrote in 2008. "I think I have more in common with the thoughtful heterosexual man who likes music and art and literature than I do with a gay man who loves drag queens, 'divas,' and hip-hop. As hostility to gays lessens and gay people's defensive clannishness declines, other factors than sexuality will become more important in our lives." One hopes.
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>>That was his constant theme: the path of gays leads to assimilation within society, not living apart in radicalized gay ghettos.
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>>It seems fitting that he would die -- of pneumonia Dec. 9, at age 70 -- just as the nation was reacting to a loathsome campaign commercial that Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, aired in a desperate attempt to boost his sinking presidential bid.
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>>"I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian," Perry says, "But you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas in school."
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>>"The bad news," Varnell wrote in 1994, "is that these people seem to hate and fear us. The good news is that they seem to be a bunch of raving loonies, without a clear grasp of what to do or what they are up against."
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>>He was referring to an anti-gay conference in Colorado.
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>>"Almost touchingly, they all seem to agree, as one speaker put it, that homosexuality, 'destroy[s] the souls and the lives of those who embrace it.' And somehow they fail to realize that the ordinary lives of millions of happy, productive gays and lesbians daily undermine those perceptions in the minds of most people. They really do not understand why we have made the political, social, and cultural progress we have. Lacking an explanatory model for our progress -- or indeed for the last thirty years of social change -- they floundered around for a way to reverse it."
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>>"This suggests," Varnell continued, "that what would work best for us is an approach that emphasizes sharing our common humanity rather than attacking the mainstream and portraying ourselves as an aggrieved, victimized and petulant minority. It is, after all, the homophobes who are the sad, isolated, troubled little clot of obscurantists."
>>True then, truer now, more so each day.
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>>http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/9381435-452/gay-writer-saw-path-to-progress.htmlEvery gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil ofgrowing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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>Proposed Petition for Redress and Pledge of Action
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>By Bear
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>[Side Note: Originally placed on Facebook, November 19, 2011]
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>[Side Note: Catalyst for Petition: Occupy Wall Street, Action
>Required by 99%]
>In 1776, representatives of the residents in thirteen North
>American colonies adopted a Declaration of Independence that
>set forth the philosophical principles behind their recent
>and future actions, their grievances against King George III
>of Great Britain, and the redress they sought. The Declaration
>famously illuminated the unalienable rights of life, liberty,
>and the pursuit of happiness held by all women and men. The
>writer of the Declaration substituted "pursuit of happiness"
>for "property" found in earlier formulations of enumerated
>natural rights, considering property to be a creation of humans
>that is valued, protected, and used but not intrinsic to human
>endeavor.
>
>After struggle, victory, and peace, representatives of the
>citizens of the thirteen sovereign, independent states established
>from initial trial and error, through debate and consensus a
>new form of government of, by, and for the people. That
>government has withstood invasion, wars of expansion, defense,
>principle, ideology and questionable motive, economic
>transformations, immigration of individuals from every part
>of the world, cultural awakenings, social unrest and political
>corruption, assassinations, and a great conflagration that
>soaked this country's fields with blood from self-inflicted
>wounds and tore the fabric of its shared civic culture. That
>government has evolved as its creators intended to meet new
>challenges and provided infrastructure, regulations, and
>services as the need arose. That government remains a beacon
>of hope for all human beings seeking democratic, representative,
>responsible, humane, and limited rule over their affairs.
>
>Today, many citizens of the United States of America fear their
>government has become a creature of the wealthy, the corporations
>from which the wealthy derive their resources, and the politicians
>driven to act in the interests of those corporations due to
>their need for funds to fuel their endless campaigns to stay in
>office. Some of those citizens have made their concerns known
>by occupying parks, streets, and public areas in the cities and
>other locations around this country. These peaceful groups have
>called upon the one percent that wields power through wealth and
>elected office to return the government, its policies, laws,
>regulations, and justice to the ninety-nine percent that have
>the capacity to fuel the economy, generate jobs, mobilize society,
>and move forward but are starved of the resources to do so. They
>seek change.
>
>As the colonial representatives knew two hundred thirty-five
>years ago, great change must be founded on rational principles
>soundly developed from evidence, facts, and natural law. Such
>are the times now that some choose to twist, dissect, or profane
>the principles supporting change out of fear, ignorance, or
>self-interest. Nonetheless, the foundations for change are
>present for all to see. The evidence is clear.
>
>We truly are created equal, endowed with certain rights, among
>which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We all
>require and are entitled to consistent shelter, social and
>familial companionship, wellness and good health, education to
>our potential, full and complete nourishment, adequate clothing,
>employment of our skills and knowledge, and safety from harm.
>We build communities. We support our brothers and sisters
>regardless of skin color, religion, ability, belief, condition,
>sex, attribute, or characteristic. We treat one another with
>respect and dignity. We are a diverse, compassionate nation of
>free individuals.
>
>The ninety-nine percent are held back by the actions and whims
>of the one percent. Witness the facts: the wealthy have steadily
>increased their share of the nation's wealth at the expense of
>the poor and middle classes; politicians have pledged to enact
>no taxes despite the necessity for revenues to meet the needs
>of the people and revitalize our nation's infrastructure;
>corporations have been deemed persons with political rights,
>allowing these corporations to support candidates and political
>causes financially, thereby drowning out the voices of voters;
>elected officials have engaged the nation in lengthy, unwarranted
>wars that have sapped the economy, killed and harmed tens of
>thousands of people, and invoked ill feelings abroad; state
>legislators and governors have used the narrow tenets of religion
>as the sole basis for laws that restrict the exercise of
>fundamental human rights by all; politicians have set out
>arbitrary and selfish requirements prior to debate on issues
>that require negotiation and consensus; companies, business
>groups, and single-issue interests have used their resources
>to influence and shape legislation and regulations for their
>limited benefit, squeezing out the common good; representatives
>have conducted inquiries and provided earmarked funds for their
>own self promotion; laws have been passed to address issues
>that do not actually exist and other laws have not been taken
>up that would address pressing concerns, all for partisan gain;
>the judiciary has become suspect of issuing opinions based on
>ideology and party affiliation rather than the law and common
>sense; financiers and investors have used the markets and banks
>with little oversight and adjustable scruples to speculate,
>profit, and gain without adding real value to the economy; many
>news media businesses have adopted clear ideological perspectives
>while continuing to claim the mantle of unbiased journalism; the
>United States Senate has adopted rules that require almost all
>legislation to find support from many more than half plus one
>members of the chamber, making a mockery of the idea of unlimited
>debate established by the nation's founders; and candidates for
>public office have created the endless election cycle in their
>quest to hold onto their offices once acquired.
>
>These are reasons for deep concern regarding the future of this
>nation. Their mitigation and elimination require substantial
>action. Citizens that have occupied Wall Street, Oakland, the
>tundra, Albany, and other places have taken the first step in
>calling attention to the plight of the ninety-nine percent and
>the power of the one percent. This petition is the next. We seek
>redress of our grievances from the government, the wealthy, and
>the corporations. We seek the resources to take action to correct
>the deficiencies that have arisen in this country. We seek the
>means to rebuild our communities and the support to fulfill our
>essential needs. We seek dignity and honor from our labors. We
>seek peace, security, and fulfillment. In return, we offer action.
>We offer involvement in our cities, towns, and villages. We offer
>engagement with those that need. We offer ourselves to the
>betterment of our country and the future. We offer participation
>in civic culture as a defense against the weaknesses of apathy
>and self-absorption. We offer to be active, American citizens.
>
>Bear ÃÆ'¢â‚¬â€œ 8 November 2011
>
>Sign Petition @
>https://www.change.org/petitions/the-proposed-petition-for-redress-and-pledge-of-action
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>Discuss Petition @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Occupy_Wall_Street/join
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