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What are your "pet" issues?

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What are your "pet" issues?

It's not uncommon to take many issues seriously, and that's good, but most people have one or two issues that are closer to their hearts than others. Which issues are those for you?

Mine are...

- Civil asset forfeiture. It seriously boggles my brain cells that anybody could rationalize this as being Constitutionally acceptable.
- Police abuse/corruption, especially as it contributes to wrongful convictions and usurping people's Constitutional protections.
 
Disability issues & special education.
 
What are your "pet" issues?

It's not uncommon to take many issues seriously, and that's good, but most people have one or two issues that are closer to their hearts than others. Which issues are those for you?

Mine are...

- Civil asset forfeiture. It seriously boggles my brain cells that anybody could rationalize this as being Constitutionally acceptable.
- Police abuse/corruption, especially as it contributes to wrongful convictions and usurping people's Constitutional protections.

Public Sector Unions

Nothing else even comes close.
 
Conservationism and fiscally responsible decision making
 
When I first started really getting into all if this political stuff, it was marriage equality when MA legalized it. I really don't have a big pet issue anymore, more of jack of all trades although I still like to step on the soapbox from time to time.
 
Liberty and justice for all American citizens.

Respecting the truth of reality, and telling those truths even if those truths are difficult for ideologues to take.

Fighting Multi-Cultural Internationalists' and Corporate Global Expansionists' powerful efforts to create a one-world government run by the U.N. and puppeted by international conglomerates that would come at the impoverishing experience of the vast majority of U.S. citizens.

Empowering the great majority that exists at the center of the political spectrum to take power from the extremists on the wings who are running America into the ground.
 
Limited central government, taxation, preservation of individual rights.
 
Restoration of the traditional family, restoration of the unique American culture and punishment for the total corruption that has become the American government.
 
Removing the government from citizens personal lives and decisions, governmental fiscal responsibility, corruption in government, economics in reality as pertains to this country.
 
Education and equality under the law.
 
What are your "pet" issues?

It's not uncommon to take many issues seriously, and that's good, but most people have one or two issues that are closer to their hearts than others. Which issues are those for you?

Mine are...

- Civil asset forfeiture. It seriously boggles my brain cells that anybody could rationalize this as being Constitutionally acceptable.
- Police abuse/corruption, especially as it contributes to wrongful convictions and usurping people's Constitutional protections.

My "pet" issue this past week has been some nasty spider or bug that bit my poor dog and caused her a severe allergic reaction and lots of pain. The only thing worse than the vet bills was listening to her cry all day and all night and not be able to do anything to comfort her.
 
What are your "pet" issues?

It's not uncommon to take many issues seriously, and that's good, but most people have one or two issues that are closer to their hearts than others. Which issues are those for you?

Mine are...

- Civil asset forfeiture. It seriously boggles my brain cells that anybody could rationalize this as being Constitutionally acceptable.
- Police abuse/corruption, especially as it contributes to wrongful convictions and usurping people's Constitutional protections.

My "pet" issue this past week has been some nasty spider or bug that bit my poor dog and caused her a severe allergic reaction and lots of pain. The only thing worse than the vet bills was listening to her cry all day and all night and not be able to do anything to comfort her.

Everything pisses me off...I think I've turned into a grumpy old Contrarian. LOL

Well, except for your poor doggie John...awww poor little thing. :(
 
Well, my "pet" issue is ------ pets.

How do all these people abandon their dogs and cats or drop them off at the pound to be slaughtered? Millions of them. To me, strong evidence of why we will have less and less "freedoms" and more and more government. What a bunch of assholes you humans are. Not just a few people, but so very many. If you can't be trusted to take care of these living, breathing, loving creatures who ask so little and give so much, how the hell can you be trusted to do anything except under narrow, supervised guidelines?

Saint Gertrude* wept.



*Gertrude of Nivelles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Civil rights, definitely civil rights. But probably the one that gets under my skin the most is attempts to pass religious laws, infringing on people's first amendment rights. That and concentration of power in the hands of small wealthy upper class.
 
Statism and religion. Or more specifically at this point in time: taxes, drugs, and separation of Church and state (given that I'm originally from the UK where no such separation exists). Statism is bad enough without it being based on religion.

Taxes are an issue for me because I don't like paying them, nor do I like how they are spent.
Drugs are an issue for me because I don't like going to prison for smoking them.
Statism is an issue for me because it is the root cause of my first two issues.
 
1. Reducing the power of the government (federal, state, and local) over the individual.
2. Reducing the power and influence of large corporations and other big money interests.
 
Sorry to hear. IS she doing better?

Maybe you should send her for a pet scan.
My "pet" issue this past week has been some nasty spider or bug that bit my poor dog and caused her a severe allergic reaction and lots of pain. The only thing worse than the vet bills was listening to her cry all day and all night and not be able to do anything to comfort her.
 
Incompetence, dishonesty and corruption in both mainstream and specialist media leading to ignorance and bias across the general population. I see it as a major contributing factor to most of the other pet issues mentioned in this thread.

Issues around healthcare and IT tend to catch my attention too, if only because it's where I work and what I do there respectively.
 
The most dangerous religion: statism. The belief that it is legitimate to initiate force against the person or property of others in order to achieve one's desired ends.
 
Sorry to hear. IS she doing better?

Maybe you should send her for a pet scan.

She's still not herself yet, but much better thanks - I think when the drugs run their course she'll be back to normal - THANKS for asking. She's an old gal, so I'm kind of prepared for these end of the run issues. Had dogs for over 50 years and it's never easy near the end.
 
Lying as a means to get ahead in politics while Americans sit back and do nothing.
 
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