Resist Africom!

        Africom was created in 2007 by then president Bush, vice-president dick Cheney, and secretary of state Donald Rumsfield.  Upon learning that Ghana stroke oil previously in 2007 along with dick Cheney's company, Halliburton Africom was created and accepted by congress with a budget in 2008 with little media attention. According to ResistAfricom's website, a NGO in Washington, DC, one of Africom's primary functions will be to train and equip African militarises to "legitimize" and "professionalize" soldiers. The history of U.S. train and equip programs has resulted in devastation and violence as a result of the infusion of weapons and training into unstable areas of Africa. During the Cold War, the U.S. provided weapons and training to governments which were willing to help fight the ideological war against communism, regardless of their human rights or good governance standards. The U.S. continues such programs today under the mantra of...

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        The Petition Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of the people "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The right to petition has been held to include the right to file lawsuits against the government.   Other types of petitions have included those which sought to free Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment by the former apartheid government of South Africa. The petitions had no legal effect, but the signatures of millions of people on the petitions represented a moral force which may have helped to free Mandela and to end apartheid. Non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International often use petitions in an attempt to exert moral authority in support of various causes.   Internet petition is a new form of a petition which is becoming commonplace in the 21st century. The petition for saving the Copenhagen climate change treaty in 2009, by the TckTckTck campaign, is...

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