Iran

Imagine living in a world where a hostile country had control of Weapons of Mass destruction. Think about what would happen if a Nuclear Missile were to land in the City of Atlanta. First the bomb would expload vaporizeing everything within a 1-5 Km radius, causing temperatures to soar reaching 300 million degrees celsius. Even living in the Suburbs, like most of you do, it wouold not be safe because if you were not destroyed by the heat, the extreme pressure would more than likely pop your lungs. If you didn't die by these means, there are many more that are just as real, and just as dangerous. Millions of people you know, you would never see again, if you survived. Even though this information is only guestimates by the BBC about what might happen, nobody can be really sure; things could be better or worse. but one thing would be the same: the kind of fear you might be feeling right now, is the kind of fear the United States would live in if Iran built a Nuclear missile.
As many of have read or heard Iran has resumed it's development of Uranium in order to build a Nuclear Warhead or Bomb. As a matter of fact, the EU has declared talks with Iran "at a dead end". Of course the United States has backed Britain and the EU in going to the UN for sanctions, or " measures not involving the use of armed force in order to maintain or restore international peace and security", against Iran. However, Iran has shown that they could care less about any sanctions, they are going to keep building Nukes. According to BBC news, Iran broke the UN seals that were on 3 of their nuke facilities as well as beginning to pull all of their assets (about $50 Billion) out of Europe. With this kind of action, Iran is ensuring the fact that if they get sanctioned, they will not lose anything. However I am not sure if sanctions could go that far, since the U.K Observer is reporting that Iran is bribing India, China and Russia with economic incentives.
If Iran were able to build a Nuke; their agenda, as stated by their president, Mamoud Ahmadinejad, is a call for Israel to be "wiped off the map". Israel's existence would be threatened with a Nuclear Iran, not only because of the previous quotation, but because of the extreme hatred the Muslim community feels towards non Muslim nations. In other words, Israel is a Light in a dark place. This fact would also put a large, nuclear target on the United States back, as well as our troops, who are in easy range of a Shahab-3 missile, which can strike a target 1,300 miles away from launch. Another misfortune of having a Nuclear Iran would be that terrorist groups like Al-Quieda would have access to Nuclear weapons.
In light of what has been previously stated, Iran needs to be dealt with like a rebellious child; with a whipping. Whether that whipping is Physical or economical is up to Iran. Either way, we the people of the United States need to stand up, first for Freedom and Justice throughout the world and Second, not only for the protection of our troops in Iraq, but also for the Protection of the State of Israel and her people; Gods chosen people. Our Job as citizens and my charge to you, is to find out who your Federal Representative is and write him or her encouraging them to support Israel and Great Britain as well as action against Iran. If you do not know who your Representative is, you can find and email him or her by going to http://www.house.gov/.

The NSA "Scandal"?

I am sure all of you have heard about the so called (mostly by Liberals and Democrats) NSA "scandal". If you have not, there is bound to be a headline about it on the right side-bar of this page. Why would any major news organization run this story if they found out about this? Are they stupid enough to believe that just because they found out about it, that everyone has a right to now about it? I hope not. But then again, they might be. I personally am OK if George Bush himself is listening in on my phone conversations trying to look for terrorists, because I know I don't have anything to hide. I'm not a terrorist and I have no connections to terrorist organizations. Yes Americans have a right to privacy, but the President also has a power, granted to him by the United States Constitution, ratified in all 50 states by Representatives of We the People that gives him the power to "but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" (United States Constitution, Amendment IV.) We have probable cause that Terrorists are communicating with other terrorists outside this country. They are probably not doing so any more because they now know that their conversations are being tapped (which has to be a violation a terrorist's rights!). Even if the FISA courts would have been willing to give Pres. Bush a warrant, he did not need it! 

One of the most interesting things I have heard regarding this subject came from a caller on the Sean Hannity Radio Show who said something along the lines of "So far the democrats have told us how we can celebrate Christmas and what we can learn in schools and now all of the sudden they are worried about our rights?" They are not worried about our rights or morals. When I see Ted Kennedy grilling Sam Alito on morals in the Senate, I want to puke! This is the same guy that drove his girlfriend into a river and waited till he had a good cover storey to report it!  If that does not convince you, go listen to one of the Rev. Al Gore's sermons! He thinks the President has infringed upon the rights of Americans, when in reality the Clinton Administration (which Gore was Vice President of) was doing the wiretapping as well! My closing thought is this: Terrorists want to kill us, they do not care how they do it because (and you can read it in the Quaran) they believe that we are lower than Dogs. Intern, the President must do everything in his power to protect us.

Thanks,
Donovon Carter

Eminent Domain

Picture yourself waking up one morning in your family's home, the same home your family has lived in ever since you were born, to find your parents staring at an eviction notice telling them that your house is going to be taken by the government and used to build a new Target, a Costco, condominiums, a limousine parking lot. "But we have lived here for 14 years, they can't do that!" you might think, when in reality, worse cases can be found. A 70-year-old widow being shoved out of her home in New Jersey, where she could not afford to live without the house that she grew up in, that her and her husband spent their last years together, even if the government paid her what her house was worth. With over 10,000 cases of what the government calls "Eminent Domain" taking place between the years 1998 to 2002 in over a dozen states, American citizens need to take action against one of the greatest injustices that could be done to our Citizens and their rights; taking away the right to private property.

In the United States Constitution, Amendment 5 it states that "Nor [shall any citizen] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." having examined these cases myself, None of these cases have had any due process, nor have they been compensated, as a matter of fact, they are not even being used for the public. However, do you think that the public will use a limousine parking lot that is for customers of Donald Trump?

Aside from what has already been stated, the right to private property is important in another way. Without the right to private property, the government essentially owns everything. You don't own anything. Which means, what you do have the government can take away. This is communism. If the government has the right and power to take what you have, you don't have any rights at all, because you are dependent on the government for everything, and you can't do anything by yourself; you have to have the governments permission. That is wrong. And that is also what is going to happen if two things occur: 1) The government continues to take private property and diminish other rights in the act. 2) If the people who are supposed to run the government (the citizens of the united states) do continue to sit back and watch a group of politicians take over what we have enjoyed for nearly 250 years.

With that said, the fact that the state of Georgia is by far the toughest on the use of Eminent Domain and is even now working on legislation that will tighten those laws is no cause for relaxation. In nearby Stockbridge, longtime land owners are losing their so the government can given it to a private developer to build a new downtown that will generate more tax dollars for them. If you don't believe this is something that needs to be stopped,wait until some devolper comes along with a plan to boost the amount of money your local government makes that involves tearing down your property. So the reletive safty we feel now should not be an excuse for you to continue to take a back seat in this government. We need to work to get Federal legislation on the table, and nothing short of that should be the ultimate goal, and in order to achieve that goal the national eye needs to be turned on to this issue; before another person has to endure the hardship of governmental fraud.