The United States must prepare to join World War 1. If we do
not step in the war could drag on much longer than needed thus killing many
more innocent lives. The United States has the power to stop this war. With our
military and naval power we can drastically cut the time needed to end the war.
We need to be prepared to help out our allies if the need comes. The United
States is a great and proud nation, and we need to provide help for all of
those who need it. If we do not help out who else will? Many of our United
States citizens have ancestral ties to the countries of Great Britain, France,
and Italy, and some still have family and friends in those countries. We need
to be ready to defend the land of our people’s ancestors, and the family, and
friends of our people that are in Europe. France and Great Britainare fighting
hard to protect all of their people and the people in their many colonies,
should we not help them keep their people safe? The Central Powers are being
attacking the magnificent culture of these lands. This war began because
Gavrilo Princep, a Serbian man in the terrorist group the Black Hand,
assassinated the Arch Duke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand. If they are
willing to kill the Arch-Duke of Austria-Hungary, why would they stop there?
They could take the lives of our allies, or our own people. The only way to
stop this is to join the war, we can put
an end to the war and bring peace.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Prisoner rights violated
Many phone calls from prisoners are being recorded. Many of
these phone calls are confidential calls between an attorney and the prisoner. These
recordings should not have been recorded because of the legally protected
client attorney confidentiality. This is known through the Securus leak/hack. Prisoners
rarely get any sort of privacy; they at least deserve to have private
conversations with their legal team and their families. This violates both the
prisoners few privacy rights and the rights of anyone who happened to call a
prisoner. What makes this worse is the
way they store the records. They had the recordings scattered across many
tables. There is no security in the storing of this information. If they must
record the phone calls they should at least have a safe and secure the
information. The main problem with this is that it goes against the 6th
amendment a right to competent and effective legal counsel. Anyone citizen
should have the rights to keep their amendments.
Article link-Not So Securs
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Frank Norris Muckraker.
Frank Norris |
Frank Norris was an author who wrote many books including The Octopus. This book, although
fictional, exposed that the railroads in California were monopolies. In the
next few years the U.S. broke up the railroads in the Northwest. The railroads needed to be broken because
they could set or raise a price at any time without competition. Farmers near
the railroads bought land for $2.50 an acre. The farmers fixed up the land not
knowing that the railroad later retained the title for the land. The railroad
company tried to sell the land for $25 to $35 dollars an acre. For those who
resisted there was a forced eviction that 7 died in. Many of the farmers got
their land back eventually. Frank Norris wrote the Octopus on this. William
Jennings Bryans also wrote his speech “Cross of Gold” over the railroad
monopoly crisis. The Octopus is often
associated with Upton Sinclair’s famous muckraking book The Jungle.
Basic information on a few muckrakers. Muckrakers
Basic information about the railroads.California Railroads
A summary for The Octopus can be found at the fallowing link. The Octopus
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