Why is it so hard to coexist?
October 4th, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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I have had several political conversations the last week that have really had me asking a lot of questions:
- Why are all politicians liars in some form or another?
- Why is it impossible to be involved in politics without being a hypocrite?
- Why is it okay for the government to be hypocritical but not for its citizens?
- Why won’t people just vote for the candidate that most similar to them so that we can get rid of this stupid bicameral system?
- Why are people so uninvolved? Why do we wait until something effects our daily lives to care about it?
- Why is everyone so greedy, selfish, or inconsiderate?
However, amidst all these questions the only truly important one I find is:
Why is it so hard for people to peacefully coexist?
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Fight for your 4th Amendment Rights (NOW!)
July 7th, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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I’ve just written to my senators, telling them to oppose granting immunity for lawbreaking phone companies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has all the details. You really should contact them too. This is not an issue we can just let slip by. If we do we will begin the slippery slope to ignoring all essential rights within the Bill of Rights and our nation will be one thread less as it hangs from its line of floss already.
Please take action on this within the next day. The vote is left in the hands of the Senate now as the House has already approved the bill. We all know that President Bush doesn’t respect the rights of privacy that our citizen’s are entitled to and there is no chance of a veto as a result. If we can’t get 41 senators to vote no then we can kiss a large portion of our 4th amendment rights good-bye.
I am not at liberty to discuss some of the things I know. But I promise that the things that our government is able to spy on is ONLY limited by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and USSID 18. These are the two laws that restrict spying to not include US Citizens without a warrant (even if it is a ’secret’ warrant due to classification stuff).
President Bush wants to let the telecomm companies off the hook for violating the rights of United States citizen’s by not punishing them or allowing them to be taken to court for turning over records, phone calls, etc. that were not required by a warrant. Such blatant infringements on the rights protected by the Bill of Rights has not happened in a very long time. There is no “gray” line here. It is simple black and white. Do NOT allow this to sit idly in your mind. If you value your rights contact your senators NOW!
I personally have not had a chance to watch the following video yet as I’m at work. However, a friend of mine has highly suggested watching this video to get more details about this issue and help you be more informed regarding its significance and consequences.
Sincerely, your brother in alarm,
Steven Haddox
Super Tuesday - how do I not have a politics category?!
February 5th, 2008By: Steven Haddox
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So today is “Super Tuesday” (and about a hundred other nicknames) where nearly half the country will vote in primaries to choose who they want to represent their political party for President in 2008. Since my high school days I have made some pretty drastic changes in my political positions, and I suppose I’ve made some pretty drastic changes in my political involvement as well.
Back in my days at Hurricane High School in good ol’ Hurricane, UT I was considered the “ultra-conservative.” I was called Adolf Haddox because of my strict positions regarding religion, the right to pray in school, my stance against abortion, and my firm opinion on pretty much everything towards the right. Where I could’ve once been called a neo-Republican there is very little that can describe me now. My political positions have changed some over time, but not drastically; however, because of September 11, 2001 the Republican party _has_ changed drastically.
We’ll come back to my politics in a minute, before I get much farther I did want to post a link to a really cool use of Google Map’s API that will show you twitters from people throughout the world on Super Tuesday, and once 8pm EST hits we will get real-time updates as to which candidates are winning the elections in which states - pretty dang spiffy. Check it out over at Google’s Super Tuesday Twitter Map thingy (for lack of a more clear title….)
Anyway, so back to me ;) Read the rest of this entry »
