Border agents plead for 'Christmas pardon'

Mr. President,

Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were sentenced to 12 years and 11 years, respectively, in October by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas.

These are two brave Border Patrol agents who were trying to enforce border policy and ended up being sent to prison, while an illegal alien drug smuggler is given immunity and walks free.

We ask that a full investigation of this case be ordered immediately. We are confident that during such an investigation you will find that these Border Patrol agents were acting within the scope of their duty and were unjustly prosecuted.

Also, we ask that you use your power of presidential pardon, as granted by the United States Constitution in Article II, Section 2, to pardon these two Border Patrol agents. We understand these requests usually are for those that have already completed their sentences; however, we feel in this case it would be a miscarriage of justice to send these two Border Patrol agents to prison for protecting our nation's borders from an illegal drug smuggler.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53448

CBS: Stop mocking Christ, Christmas and Christians.

RE: CBS and actor Charlie Sheen have used the Christmas season to ridicule and mock Christ, Christmas and Christians.

I deeply resent your network mocking Christ and Christmas. I ask you that offer a public apology for this insult. Failing to do so shows that you continue to approve Mr. Sheen's comments even after their coming to your attention.

Without an apology from CBS, my viewing of CBS in the future will be extremely limited.


https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=228

Cable Choice to go up for FCC vote 20 Dec

Dear FCC,

On December 20, please vote yes on Chairman Martin's cable franchise reform proposal. Competition is good for consumers, and it's the only thing that will control cable TV prices. We can't afford the status quo. Please help us by encouraging competition.

Sears Supports Homosexual TV Network With Advertising

Dear Mr. Lewis,

I am both shocked and disappointed that Sears would help the homosexual network LOGO with its advertising.

I ask that you immediately cease advertising on LOGO.

Your decision will definitely help me in making a decision on whether or not I should continue to support Sears with my purchases. If Wal-Mart can stay neutral in the culture war, surely Sears can do the same.

I await your decision.


http://www.afa.net/Petitions/Issuedetail.asp?id=226

Victoria's Secret Porn Show

Sent to McDonald's, Circuit City, Dell, Unilever, Dyson, Mucinex, 20th Cent Fox, Colombia, Paramount, Netflix, Universal, Visa, Warner Bros, and Zales

I am very disappointed at your company's decision to sponsor and show advertising during the Victoria's Secret "Fashion" Show on CBS.

I find it deplorable that your company on the one hand attempts to market to families while on the other supports such immoral programming.

Last night (Dec 5th) CBS aired the Victoria's Secret "Fashion" Show. Once again pornography has been mainstreamed across our airwaves and family living rooms were turned into strip clubs. Victoria's Secret television specials and advertisements are images with the purpose of eliciting a sexual response - the very definition of pornography.

Victoria's Secret certainly understands that. An hour of nearly naked women strutting
across the stage, degrading themselves for the pleasure of men. Every erotic movement and gyration was what you would expect to see in a strip club. The women used their bodies to lure and entice while the camera focused in on barely covered crotches and breasts, mostly bare bottoms, and cleavage. And while the women seductively paraded across stage, men's reactions were shown from the audience.

Your company needs to be aware of the content of the programming it supports and associates
itself with when it chooses to spend advertising dollars. Please support family values by not advertising and sponsoring such programming in the future.

more info: http://americandecency.org/email_updates/email12.05a.06.htm

Gap, Old Navy censor 'Christmas,' replaces it with 'Holiday'

To: Don Fisher, Chairman Gap, Inc. (don_fisher@gap.com)

Dear Chairman Fisher:

I am disappointed that Gap censors the word Christmas in your in-store, online and printed advertising. Since we observe Christmas and you censor it, your actions make it difficult to purchase Christmas gifts in your stores.

I will evaluate your response to this issue. If you continue to censor Christmas, I will take your decision into consideration when I shop for products sold by Gap, Inc. stores in the future.

FX: Sponsors of 'Rescue Me'

Sent to Coca-Cola and Toyota

I am writing today to express my concern about your recent sponsorship of an extremely graphic episode of Rescue Me on the FX cable network.

I know that you have been contacted before about your sponsorship of graphic content on other programs and I am extremely disappointed that a well-respected corporation like yours would choose to pretend it has done nothing wrong in placing its ads on such a graphic, sexually explicit program. Although you may want to take the position that your company is not involved in network programming decisions, that simply isn’t true. Without the advertising dollars of companies like yours, programs like Rescue Me could not exist. As long as companies are willing to underwrite this kind of content, it will continue to be produced.

The advertising industry is premised on the assumption that viewers will be influenced by what they see on television. That influence does not end once the commercial break is over.

It is my sincere hope that you will not further jeopardize your hard-earned corporate image and brand name by further association with the sort of content that appeared on the June 20 episode of Rescue Me.

On the June 20 episode of "Rescue Me" there were over 42 profanities, as well as vivid portrayal and normalization of homosexuality, rape, and extramarital sex.

H.R. 6099: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act

Please vote YES for H.R. 6099: Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act

The act recognizes that unborn children are subjected to trauma through abortion that causes them excruciating pain, which would be illegal if inflicted on animals in commerce or research.
Several studies have shown that preborn babies as early as 20 weeks after fertilization experience severe pain during the abortion procedure.

Federal laws regulating animal welfare require that animals destined for slaughter experience a pain-free death, but that law does not protect preborn children from the remarkable pain they undergo in an abortion.

Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a researcher at the University of Arkansas Medical Center and a leading expert on fetal pain, said he has no doubt that babies have the capacity to feel intense pain by the second trimester. In the third trimester of pregnancy, he said, the internal systems for feeling pain are completely developed.

"This is based on multiple lines of evidence," Anand said. "Not just the lack of descending inhibitory fibers, but also the number of receptors in the skin, the level of expression of various chemicals, neurotransmitters, receptors, and things like that."

The act would require abortion providers to tell women who are aborting 20 weeks or more after fertlilization about the severe pain their preborn children will feel during the procedure. It would also require that the woman be allowed to decide whether her preborn could receive anesthesia, if it is more than 20-weeks-old.