• Journal: Your choice of PSA from the ones we watched in class – what struck you most?

It was Madison's because even believing that proposition eight should be passed they had a really good idea of showing people that marriage is all about love and not about the sex gender.

PSA'S

to check my group's PSA's about medical marijuana go to Daniel's blog at:

http://justice-hthi.blogspot.com/

• What is your party (based on the ideology quiz)?libe

The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the United States. Millions of Americans have voted for Libertarian Party candidates in past elections throughout the country, despite the fact that many state governments place every imaginable roadblock in our path in order to keep our candidates off the ballot and deprive voters of a real choice.

Libertarians believe the answer to America's political problems is the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: a free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders.

What began with a small group of activists in Colorado has become America's third largest political party. We are proud of our heritage and the progress we have made since 1971.

National Platform of the Libertarian Party

Adopted in Convention, May 2008, Denver, Colorado

Preamble

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.

In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles.

These specific policies are not our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set free in our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands. 

Statement of Principles

We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.

We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.

Governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to government the right to regulate the lives of individuals and seize the fruits of their labor without their consent.

We, on the contrary, deny the right of any government to do these things, and hold that where governments exist, they must not violate the rights of any individual: namely, (1) the right to life -- accordingly we support the prohibition of the initiation of physical force against others; (2) the right to liberty of speech and action -- accordingly we oppose all attempts by government to abridge the freedom of speech and press, as well as government censorship in any form; and (3) the right to property -- accordingly we oppose all government interference with private property, such as confiscation, nationalization, and eminent domain, and support the prohibition of robbery, trespass, fraud, and misrepresentation.

Since governments, when instituted, must not violate individual rights, we oppose all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. People should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and property for the benefit of others. They should be left free by government to deal with one another as free traders; and the resultant economic system, the only one compatible with the protection of individual rights, is the free market.

• Journal – if you could register for any party, what would it be? Why?

It would be the liberterian party, because I believe that people are responsible for their own acts since they do not hurt or get in the way of other people's freedom then the law should be applied. As rational humans I think we are capable to be aware what is right or wrong and we do not need a superior person or institution in this case the government to tell us what is right or wrong.

If you were 18, and could vote, would you? Why or why not?

Yes i would, I belive that there are still some people with good intentions who are trying to make the best for the country, in Brazil most of the candidates are only interested in the money of the people, the poverty being the biggest part of the brazilian population the candidates make propositions that may seem good and actually help them, but it is just to get their votes and be elected but if think not voting it is not the solution, we have to belive in change and fight for it and voting is the best way to do it.

Refugee Camp

They make the refugee camp look like it is those people's choices to be the there, I mean it is not their fault that they are there and they have to live in terribles conditions and the government is only supporting low quantity of food and water and the hygienic is terrible. The only thing that I have seen about it is the medical treatments, they do not have a specialized doctor or something but at least they have plenty drugs to treat their sickness.