Eaton County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Jonathan Frost will not face charges in the February shooting of unarmed 17yr old Deven Guilford. Frost fired seven shots, all of which hit Guilford at close range. Guilford was shot once in the head, right chest, upper belly, left armpit, lower chest, right wrist and right forearm.

In what starts as Deven Guilford being pulled over for flashing his bright lights at a passing officer’s vehicle, in less than 6 minutes it ends with Guilford dead, laying in a snow bank on M-43.

Three disturbing videos, two of which were record by Deven himself, document the escalation of the seemingly unnecessary traffic stop. These graphic videos really speak for themselves. Although the officers body cam shuts off the instant before shots are fired, Devens cell phone is laying on the ground and still recording. The second video that Deven Guilford records (below) captures the horrific moments when he screams out as Sgt. Frost fires 7 shots.

Video from Sgt. Frost’s body camera.

First video recorded by Deven.

Second video recorded by Deven.

The Guilford family who has filed a federal lawsuit, released a statement following the announcement that Officer Jonathan Frost would not face charges.

Around 8:00pm on February 28, 2015, our 17 year old son and brother, Deven Guilford, was killed as a result of being shot seven times by Eaton County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Jonathan Frost. At the time, Deven was merely traveling to his girlfriend’s house after playing basketball at his church. Deven was stopped by the officer because Deven flashed his bright lights to alert the oncoming officer that his brights appeared to be on. Notably, Deven was the third person that the officer had pulled over that night for flashing brights at the officer, who was driving a brand new police vehicle with high-intensity head-lights. During this traffic stop, it appears that Deven was puzzled and confused about why he was pulled over and why he was being confronted by the officer. It appears that the officer did not make any reasonable inquiry of Deven that could have helped ease the tensions of the situation.

The Eaton County Prosecutor, after reviewing the investigation by the Michigan State Police has determined to not bring any criminal charges against Sgt. Frost. Based on what we know at this time, our family believes that our son should not have been killed on the night in question. There was no reason or necessity for the officer to physically remove our son from the car without considering other options to avoid an unnecessary violent escalation. These options could have included, keeping Deven in the car to allow more time for the incident to cool down and/or wait for other officers to arrive. It must be also noted that Deven was not in possession (of) any weapon and emphatically told the officer that he was not armed. We also have serious concerns about whether the officer used unreasonable force against Deven under the circumstances. In this regard, there are questions about whether Deven should have been tased on the side of the roadway and whether the officer had the right to shoot and kill Deven in these circumstances. Ultimately, we encourage those want more information about the encounter to view the full video of the traffic stop leading up to the physical altercation between Deven and the officer. This video is available through the Michigan State Police Department and the Eaton County Prosecutor’s office. We believe this video raises more questions than answers regarding whether Deven should be alive today.

Sgt. Frost said that Deven came at him, striking him around the face. The two were in a field, a few feet away from Sgt. Frost’s vehicle.

He had lost the taser during the struggle; it was found later between the scene of the struggle and the vehicles.

Frost said the Deven got on top of him, hitting him repeatedly. He could feel blood in his mouth, and feared he was losing consciousness.

The prosecutor said Sgt. Frost felt he had to defend himself and acted in a lawful manner.

    One of the most loved and anticipated holidays in the World, is Christmas. This holiday is widely known to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of Christianity. Families and Children around the World on earth find unity in gathering and lighting up their homes with Christmas lights and some have a beautiful Christmas tree. Underneath the Christmas tree you can usually find gifts or cards of appreciation for loved ones and friends. 

    I have found myself with many Christmas holidays without any materialistic gifts due to the poverty I grew up in. I found that spending time with the family mattered most to me. This is not ideal for everyone. Most love Christmas material gifts to celebrate the Holiday with the thought of Santa Clause. Many believe that Santa Clause travels around the globe delivering gifts to those who are “good” throughout the year. And if you’re bad then you get a stocking filled with coals. Since I had many Christmas mornings without coals or gifts, I felt that this was a “win - win” situation for me. 

    This holiday brings about loving hearts and acts of kindness around the world by people giving back to communities and finding money to give gifts to children who are less fortunate. Charities around the World find themselves depending on most of their donations to come in on or around this time of year. One Christmas I was asked what I wanted for my christmas gift by a caring person. I told them I wanted nothing for myself, but something for the family. The gift I asked for was a VCR. Back in 1995 VCR’s brought so much entertainment to families and I wanted to bring my family together. VCR’s were too expensive back then so I doubted we would get the VCR. On Christmas Eve a bus drove up to my home and Santa Clause came out calling me by name. Now this bus was filled with Christmas caroler’s who were singing. When Santa had my attention at my front door, he said he had my gift. I was shocked. I was prepared for anything and would have loved anything he had to give me. He pulled out a large box and asked me to open it in front of my family. It was a VCR! My Mother began to cry with tears of joy. My two older Sisters were confused. I savored the moment! Next thing I know my Sister got a gift of a tape, which was a movie, of the Backstreet Boys group Live Concert. We watched that concert over and over! We about destroyed that tape by rewinding it so many times. Now that was the first time I felt so blessed. And who would have thought that my selfless gift for the family would actually come into fruition?

    There are thousands of Children who feel lonely or empty inside just because they never receive a gift and so it means a lot when another person in this World steps into action and does a random act of love. I jump from using the common phrase of random act of kindness to random act of love because in the larger humanistic scale the person feels loved from that kind act. Love is very scarce from society, which is a travesty in and of itself. So I attempt to reach out and provide the same life changing experiences, I’ve had, to others in my realm of influence today. 

    My life year round is surrounded by fast cars and shooting stars and yet the fast life, political life, party life, rock life I have had every night only makes me stronger. When Christmas comes around I take a deep breath and realize my mistakes and can’t let the cop lights, flash lights, spot lights, strobe lights, street lights, and Christmas lights blind me from the true meaning of this divine holiday. My Mother has raised me right and no matter what trials, or how many material items I own, or what amount of dollars I have in the bank I find myself waking up daily with appreciation for my experiences, family, friends, and opportunities to influence others for good. 

    Please turn up the lights in your heart and allow yourself do your random act of love this Christmas Season. God bless every one of you. I promise you that your life will get extra bright and you will see everything you need to in order Change the World, for good, within your influence. This to your surprise will lead you on the path to the pursuit to happiness. God bless you all and may you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

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Today marks one of humanity's finest hours in our enduring struggle for freedom. The Berlin Wall reminds of how the barrier between freedom and oppression inspires hope. It’s been that way throughout all of world history. Sad facts are that a river or a mountain or a fence has often made the difference between a life of despair and a life of hope. 

So let's remember that more than 25 years ago today, it took more than sledgehammers and manpower to finally tear down the Berlin Wall. Freedom took what Ronald Reagan called “the will and moral courage of free men and women.” It took the patient cries of an oppressed people to make Historic change. 

I aspire for every American to Live the American Dream. We need to end the oppression of a growing American Government telling you what you can do and not do, we need Liberty. America was founded by liberation and yet some remarkably tend to forget that. We need every opportunity to gain an education to uplift our families and communities. We need to end this unfortunate racist revolving prison system. We need pure Justice restored. It is my prayer that we may be humble, open to feedback, be articulate, learn as much as we can on important issues that affect us, and able to share what we need with elected officials so the real change can assist us in our individual and collective pursuit of happiness.


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The World-renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking has joined Facebook. Mr. Hawkings is best known for his work on gravitational singularities and black hole radiation. Here is my explanation of the gravitational singularities that apply in the social media universe. First you should to consider how the social networking Universe works. This is always about the gravity of the information you’re passing along. Gravity is influence, context, and facts. Next you need to apply the rules of adding extra gravity to be just right enough to experience a big bang, similar to how the planet earth began. The perfect amount of gravity is still just a fraction of a second sending the information out by an unbelievable amount of incredible speed. If I were to give you an actual time table I would say it needs to spread out in less than a millionth, of a millionth, of a millionth, of a millionth of a second. Yes social networking information can flow that fast. For the record that is faster than the speed of light, which does break one of the laws of physics. Even school children know you can’t go faster than the speed of the light, but there is a loop hole to this. Nothing can go faster than light, nothing meaning open space. Yes I realize this will give even scientists headaches but social networking is meant to be fast and efficient.  So this speed is called Planck time. This is how fast social networking is meant to be and instruments such as Facebook has made this possible. To understand how Planck time works there is more units in Planck time in one second since the big earth bang, yes the math is mind blowing. This time period is so small that human intuition goes out the window. If even a person were to look at their watch than it would be a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion Planck times. The exploding mass of information traveling faster than the speed of light as we know it, is how social networking in the Universe works.

A fraction of the second after the information is put out in the World Wide Web the information can sit in the palm of your hand via phone applications, email, and text. But in another tiny fraction of a second it expands to others around the earth and moving faster than the speed the light it grows larger than our solar system and still is a ranging storm of information traveling in our social networking Universe. Social Networking information is more violent than anything you could experience in the Universe today. Even the interior of the Sun is more calm and serene than how social networking works. The raw energy of the explosion of the internet transforms information to sub atomic particles, which is the first matter of the Universe. This conversion of matter to energy was predicted by Albert Einstein. This is known even to children as E=MC2. This illustrates how the big impact of Albert Einstein is involved with how fast destruction can travel. A similar depiction is with the discovery of destruction traveling via an Atomic Bomb explosion. In just a fraction of a second after the big bang the building blocks of social networking the explanation begins to take shape. But this first matter of atoms or earlier stages of sub atomic particles must be sent via a stable rate. The extreme nature of society and communication energizes the information. This races the information to travel at incredible speeds. It’s pure chaos. Eventually things calms down and people cool down and read the facts of the information. All of this is happening in fractions of a second into people’s finger tips.

But this is when the big bang of social networking in the Universe is traveling into a critical stage of a titanic battle. The one thing that can destroy the information before it even gets started, Antimatter. From the smallest rock to the largest star in the Universe there is always Antimatter. This was created by the pure energy of the big bang. Einstein’s theory was that energy transforms into matter and matter can transform into energy. We do social networking with electronic tools similar to a Hadron Collider. For a split second we submit turbo charged communication and human movements to change the human thought process similar to how a Hadron Collider is functioning with antimatter. So the question arises, what communication and pure energy was sent to us from the beginning of time? Where do we come from?

If we look at how matter works we see matter has a positive charge and locks arms with its enemy antimatter that has a negative charge. The fate of communication lies in the balance to these two. This is fair and balanced. There would be nothing interesting if there was not opposition in communication. But there must always be a champion. So just like a social networking game of ‘risk’ the side with the most matter wins. That is where survival of the fittest relies upon. The side that has more information flowing causing people to take side with them and will win the hearts and minds in Nations, Communities, and Families.

Social Networking in the Universe with technology isn’t very old and is still a strange thing for some. Only a decade ago most people would knock on a neighbor’s door and share information face to face verses sending a text. Some don’t tweet or know what a tweet is. But now all this is beginning to change as we see how everyone is becoming more wired to the social networking universe with technology. More and more cell phones are being distributed in light years in size compared to home phones being the only source for phone fifteen years ago. Even home phones are being converted to use new technology such as VOIP; voice over the Internet. The day will come where households will no longer accept paper mail and the postal office will just regulate your email data servers and your home address will be your internet IP address. The young social networking universe is currently having to cool down to slow down enough to allow the older generations to catch up. This period may take about 20 years in my prediction. When this happens, the billions on planet earth will all be plugged in to the World Wide Web. To capture the critical of images of the temperature of our planet earth the United States launched a satellite back in 1989 called the Cosmic Background Explorer. These first images were called the “face of God”. If we do the same but check who has internet access across the planet, earth, would we still call these images the “face of God”? I say yes! These heat maps of the planet earth via internet access would show who and what is communicating more, and where, and how it isn’t. These are the fluctuations that created all of us humans to be alive today. So why not keep communicating? As with astronomy, Stars in the Universe allow galaxy’s to grow in majestic beautiful fashion. Planets circle the Stars and I would compare that to information. It’s a common wish of great minds that all information in Nations and Communities keep flowing so they may continue to grow in majestic beautiful fashion. Any Nations of Communities seeking to hide or stop free flowing information do so at their own self-destruction. So I ask what or who are the Stars that will keep spreading the messages of the “face of God” to you?

I say social networking in the Universe is infinite and will continue to only grow. New communication tools will eventually expand so large that we will change humanities communication in a run-away mode that will push all us. Figuring out how this might all change is a mystery as the Universe itself. If it self destructs it might trigger another big bang in communication. Maybe this has already happened and this is never ending. Some might say that this occurred with the death of copper telecommunication. But everything we enjoy in communication never really began by Mark Zuckerberg founding Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University, but over fourteen billion years ago. Everything started with the big bang that contains the answers to our greatest questions about our past, future, and present with social networking in the Universe. 

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The 26-page Amnesty International report “outlines some of the human rights abuses and other policing failures” that were observed by a delegation that was sent to Ferguson on Aug. 14.

A spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department said they “had one mission, and that was the preservation of life.” Yes, where do we draw the line for preservation of life and violating human rights? 

Here are some of the alleged human right abuses detailed in the report:

The report mentions several times police fired tear gas at protesters, including one instance (p. 13) during which “it appeared that flash bangs and tear gas were thrown directly in front of the line of protestors, forcing” them to run down W. Florissant Ave. The report also recounts instances in which police used rubber bullets (p. 13), pepper spray (p. 12), and “long range acoustic devices” (p. 14) to disperse crowds.

The report — which lists the examples of police force in a section on “human rights concerns” — acknowledges that some looting and vandalism took place. However, it adds that the police response punished protesters and vandals alike (p. 6). It also was unclear if police gave lawful orders to disperse, the report adds (p. 12).

Officials began forcing protesters to keep moving at all times or face arrest on Aug. 18 (p. 7). It was a shift in tactics that largely worked for police — but one that also happened to be illegal.

The report criticizes the tactic on a variety of grounds, including that it was arbitrarily applied and that a “protest zone” for people to rest in was an improper solution. The report also notes that some felt the order to keep moving was designed to tire out protesters and get them to go home. Several people at the scene mentioned similar concerns to BuzzFeed News reporters as well.

The curfew was in effect Aug. 16 and 17, before the National Guard arrived (p. 7). The report argues that the curfew limited people’s rights to demonstrate peacefully, and “also the freedom of movement of the general public in Ferguson who were required to be off of the streets after midnight each night.”

The report mentions (p. 10) several instances when police at the protests were armed with semiautomatic weapons and had police dogs — both things witnessed by BuzzFeed News reporters as well. Police also were equipped with riot gear, batons, shields, and helmets, and the response served to escalate tensions at the scene, the report argues. It also recounts an instance in which an officer pointed a gun at journalists and threatened to kill them.

The report also details ways in which police restricted the media, including arresting at least 19 journalists (p. 16).

After noting that the events leading up to Brown’s death remain unclear, the report calls for a thorough investigation (p. 3). It also states that force should only be used “to save life” (p. 2), and that because he was unarmed, Brown was “unlikely to have presented a serious threat to the life of the police officer.”

The report describes a 15-minute meeting (p. 16) with Amnesty delegates and Johnson, pictured above, in the back of an unmarked police car on Aug. 21. In order to secure the meeting, delegates had to promise that media would not be included, and that they would not use social media while it was happening.

The delegates presented Johnson with a series of questions, but neither he nor a spokesperson of the Missouri Department of Public Safety — who also attended the meeting — had responded by the time the report was written.



Source: 26-page Amnesty International report

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The first role in government is protecting life. Yet police departments in America are becoming more out of control. A sad fact is that Americans are nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. Americans are becoming more and more skeptical of the tactics that have led to deaths or serious injuries by cops.

The first thing that needs to be re-educated to all police, who honestly feel they are protecting and serving, is the Terry vs. Ohio case. Terry vs. Ohio the was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court for America. This case explained that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest. If a police officer has a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief that the person "may be armed and presently dangerous."

For the police protection they may perform a quick surface search of the person’s outer clothing for weapons if they have reasonable suspicion that the person stopped is armed. This reasonable suspicion must be based on "specific and articulable facts" and not merely upon an officer's hunch. Yet too many times officers do this based on a hunch, which is against the law. This commonly permitted police action has subsequently been referred to in short as a "stop and frisk," or simply a "Terry frisk". The Terry standard has been later extended to temporary detentions of persons in vehicles, known as traffic stops.

A large growing concern for every American is why are police are pointing tasers, guns, and rifles at people without respecting reasonable suspicion or the probable cause to arrest someone. These usually turn into shootings that are most likely ruled justified to an internal investigation. But to parents, relatives, friends, co-workers, or neighbors these shootings could have been prevented if the officer, or officers, had proper training to handle the situation differently.
 
Sadly we only see on the images on the news of police pointing weapons to people exercising their manifestation of the right to freedom of assembly, association, and speech. This carelessness has caused more Americans to use their cell phones to record actions by police and upload the footage unfiltered to the internet for everyone to view in real-time. In my opinion a police officer has no right to inhibit someone from filming them or has authority to delete that footage, because that would be obviously destroying evidence. 

In conclusion, if we are innocent until proven guilty then police need to respect all rights of a living person and not push the boundaries until the Miranda rights are being mentioned.  If a person is truly a suspect then police should do all they can to ensure a person can see a Judge, and possibly a jury. 

I share my opinion based on my divine respect for everyones right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. 

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 A lot of people in the world are feeling unsure about the world today. People know something bad is awaiting them. Maybe this is just a symptom of a deeper problem: a giant House of cards.  Without a fixed link to any gold, the Treasury can borrow money from the Federal Reserve, resulting in a government bond. They then auction off these loans to foreign countries, pension funds, and U.S. individuals buy them. With the government not paying back any of these bonds, and the value of the money decreasing, they are causing a never ending cycle of debt. The Federal government is a House of cards because, they go through the appearance of lending money, agreeing to pay it back plus interest, but creating this money from nothing. They continue to create added sums of money adding to debt by doing this.

In 1944 the Bretton Woods system was adopted by the world to have the U.S. Currency as a global trading currency, making it equal to the value of gold. Countries then began fearing that the United States was printing more money than the Treasury had in gold. This is still the case today.

August 15, 1971 will stand as an important day in economic history for many generations to come.  President Richard Nixon ended the ability to convert gold into U.S. currency; therefore the Bretton Woods system was no longer applicable. The Fiat currency, known as the currency being circulated by force, was given birth and we have seen deficits ever since. There is no nation on this planet that currently uses money, it’s all currency. Money is a medium of exchange for something that has an intrinsic value. Politicians have the right to declare something of having no intrinsic value, and we must accept this. This is how money has developed a new characteristic, of holding no value. 

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a fourth of its national income. Today, 40 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend 10 billion dollars a day more than the government takes in. The Senate has recently passed a budget for the first time in the last 4 years. We have  raised our National Debt 74 times out of the last 97 years. We have 445 billion dollars in gold in our treasury; we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are 4.5 trillion dollars. The largest portion of U.S. debt, 68 cents for every dollar or about $10 trillion, is owned by individual investors, corporations, state and local governments and, yes, even foreign governments such as China that hold Treasury bills, notes and bonds. And in 2008 Forbes said the real liability facing our government is $70 trillion, meaning that the optimistic view is that our federal obligations outpace the entire annual economic output of human civilization.

And nobody seems to notice and no one seems to care. That’s what is being counted on, that we Americans will remain willfully ignorant. Yet the day is coming that our giant currency, House of cards, will collapse. And yet the American Dream will remain left standing. Martin Luther King said quote “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”

Two years ago I was in a car accident hat slid and went over a 100 foot cliff, we rolled a few times, and I survived crawling out with a few scratches. It’s a miracle I am standing today. I believe our Nation and our World can survive going over the fiscal cliff without a doubt in my mind.

Again I say in closing, asking are you feeling unsure about the world today. Something bad is awaiting us. These are symptoms of a deeper problem: a giant House of cards. If you don’t believe me then I empower you to educate yourself on this and prove me wrong. If I am right then I ask you to prepare yourselves, your family, and community for the devastating effects. God bless you and the United States of America. 

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Utah Rep Ken Ivory on October 20, 2013 said "Everyone who voted for the Utah resolution HCR 10 voted for this specific demand for action":

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of the state of Utah, the Governor concurring therein, urges the state's Congressional delegation to continue its efforts to arrest the devastating impacts of the ACA on Utah's economy, its citizens, its employers, its medical providers, and its insurers, using all means possible, including repeal of the act;"

Bill: http://le.utah.gov/~2013/bills/hbillenr/HCR010.pdf

So all of these Utah representatives who voted yes on HCR 10, support the efforts of Utah Senator Mike Lee? In my opinion I feel that it was very clear that Senator Mike Lee has taken the instructions of HCR 10, that was signed by Governor Herbert earlier this year. Senator Lee has been really obvious in his attempts to use all means possible to defund the Affordable Care Act from the devastating impacts, including repealing the law, which led to the Government shutting down for 16 days.  So does HCR 10 or a BYU Poll matter more to Senator Lee and his staff?

Here are the votes:

HCR010 - - Passed 53 - 17 - 5, 3/7/2013 3:09 PM
Concurrent Resolution on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and State Health Care Reform
Ivory / HBUS Amended
10-3-3
3rd Reading
House Final Passage
Yeas 53 Nays 17 N/V 5 Closed

Yeas - 53
Anderegg, J. Anderson, Jerry Anderson, Johnny Barlow, S. Bird, J. Brown, D. Brown, M. Christensen, L. Christofferson, K. Cox, S. Cunningham, R. Dee, B. Draxler, J. Dunnigan, J. Edwards, R. Eliason, S. Froerer, G. Gibson, F. Greene, B. Greenwood, R. Grover, K. Hall, C. Handy, S. Hughes, G. Hutchings, E. Ipson, D. Ivory, K. Kennedy, M. Knotwell, J. Last, B. Layton, D. Lifferth, D. Lockhart, R. Mathis, J. McIff, K. Menlove, R. Noel, M. Oda, C. Perry, L. Peterson, J. Peterson, V. Ray, P. Redd, E. Roberts, M. Sagers, D. Sanpei, D. Snow, V. L. Stanard, J. Stratton, K. Webb, R. C. Westwood, J. Wilcox, R. Wilson, B.

Nays - 17
Arent, P. Briscoe, J. Chavez-Houck, R. Cosgrove, T. Duckworth, S. Fisher, Janice Hemingway, L. King, B. McCay, D. Moss, C. Pitcher, D. Poulson, M. Romero, A. Seelig, J. Tanner, E. Wheatley, M. Wiley, L.

Absent or not voting - 5
Barrus, R. McKell, M. Nelson, M. Nielson, J. Powell, K.

House Vote Record: http://le.utah.gov/DynaBill/svotes.jsp?voteid=801&house=H&sessionid=2013GS

HCR010 - - Passed 19 - 5 - 5, 3/14/2013 5:38 PM
Concurrent Resolution on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and State Health Care Reform
Ivory / Adams
2nd Reading Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules
Yeas 19 Nays 5 Abs 5

Yeas - 19
Adams, J. S. Bramble, C. Christensen, A. Dayton, M. Harper, W. Henderson, D. Hillyard, L. Hinkins, D. Jenkins, S. Knudson, P. Madsen, M. Okerlund, R. Osmond, A. Reid, S. Stephenson, H. Thatcher, D. Urquhart, S. Vickers, E. Weiler, T.

Nays - 5
Dabakis, J. Davis, G. Jones, P. Robles, L. Shiozawa, B.

Absent or not voting - 5
Mayne, K. Niederhauser, W. Stevenson, J. Valentine, J. Van Tassell, K.

Senate Voting Record:
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Governor Herbert signed this into law on 4/1/2013.

So after reviewing this bill it is my opinion that the Utah State Republican Chairman James Evans should communicate with all of the Utah Republican elected officials and boots on ground to tread carefully when attacking it's own. Although I agree on healthy debates and disagreements, I do ask for civility within our Republican leaders before speaking to the press.  I insist on this so that our great State of Utah doesn't look embarrassing and divided, on a off election season. We should always aspire to make our communities, the great State of Utah, and our beloved Nation look great to inspire hope for tomorrow. Does anyone else agree with me?

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Last Friday the President said at a campaign event in Virginia "If You've Got A Business - You Didn't Build That. Somebody Else Made That Happen" This speech alone by President Obama has summarized his purpose for a second term as President. I realize that Obama was defending public investments in infrastructure but the soul of America has always been placed on the backs of private businesses. I still am a firm believer in the American Dream. Shouldn't we have a President that understands where things really happen in America?  

Obama Speech Presented without commentary (highlights ours)

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together.  That’s how we funded the GI Bill.  That’s how we created the middle class.  That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam.  That’s how we invented the Internet.  That’s how we sent a man to the moon.  We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea.  You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.  (Applause.)

Source: White House

I am involved with politics because President Barack Obama has said "We’re better off now than we would have been."

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a fourth of its national income. Today, 40 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend 10 billion dollars a day more than the government takes in. The Senate hasn’t passed a budget for the last 3 years. We haveraised our National Debt 77 times out of the last 93 years. We have 445 billion dollars in gold in our treasury; we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are 4.5 trillion dollars. The largest portion of U.S. debt, 68 cents for every dollar or about $10 trillion, is owned by individual investors, corporations, state and local governments and, yes, even foreign governments such as China that hold Treasury bills, notes and bonds. And in 2008 Forbes said the real liability facing our government is $70 trillion, meaning that the optimistic view is that our federal obligations outpace the entire annual economic output of human civilization.

This 2012 election year  is about more than just replacing a President. This campaign is about saving the soul of America. If you have money please donate to campaigns. If you have talents, then please share them with campaigns. If you have some spare time then ask a campaign how you can assist them. I ask you all to please get involved in any way shape or form. 


Regards,

Keith Kuder
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