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Two requirements to (almost) eliminate false alarms
Peter Watry
1. Suggested new False Alarm fee schedule:
During the 12 months after first registering an alarm:
First 2, free
Third one, $50
Fourth on, $500.
During each succeeding 12 month period:
First one, free.
Each succeeding one, $500.
2. New requirement of alarm companies:
Require alarm companies to visually verify alarm legitimacy
before calling the police. Sometimes called "verified
response. "
The "Goddess of Justice" carries the torch at the Human Rights
Torch Relay kickoff in Athens, Greece, Aug. 9, 2007. (photo
credit: The Epoch Times)
The Global Human Rights Torch Relay: The Olympics and
Crimes Against Humanity Cannot Coexist in China!
The Human Rights Torch Relay is an international campaign that
seeks to raise awareness of and bring an end to human rights abuses
by the Chinese communist regime. During the run up to the 2008
Olympics, the HRTR will unite all concerned parties and sponsor
events in 37 countries on 6 continents to bring the message of hope.
The HRTR lit its sacred flame in Athens, Greece on August 9, 2007.
As of Feb. 1,2008, the HRTR has already visited more than 30 cities
in Europe, Oceania, Africa and part of the Asian continent. The
Torch will come to the US at the end of March. The HRTR was
initiated by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong (CIPFG, www.cipfg.org)
Why a Human Rights Torch Relay?
We ask the CCP to respect human rights and
release all prisoners of conscience before the
2008 Olympics.
China was granted the right to host the Olympics
after it pledged to adhere to the Olympic Charter
and improve its human rights record. Instead, its
human rights abuses have worsened:
_ The Olympics have been used thus far by the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a pretext to
further crack down on Christians, Catholics,
Tibetans, Uyghurs, dissidents, independent
journalists and rights advocates.
_ The CCP has intensified the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners which, according to
Amnesty International, constitute 66% of those
persecuted by the CCP in China today.
_ Falun Gong members and other prisoners of
conscience are murdered for their organs to
supply a thriving transplant industry.
( www.OrganHarvestInvestigation.net )
_ The above groups are among the II categories
and 43 types of people that are to be excluded
from the Beijing Olympics.
_ The CCP's continuing destruction of the
environment and land seizures to make way for
the Olympic "show" is undermining the quality
of life for the Chinese people.
_ Outside of China, the CCP supports other
totalitarian regimes in perpetrating slaughter
upon their citizens in Darfur, Burma, Zimbabwe,
and North Korea.
Previous Olympics have proven to be
propaganda bonanzas for their dictatorial hosts,
such as the Nazis in 1936 and the Soviets in
1980, which is opposite of the Olympic ideal.
HRTR participants -- government officials,
Olympic medalists, other individuals and
organizations -- will carry the torch, a symbol of
justice and human dignity to cities around the
world. We believe this effort can save lives, and
we invite all to join us.
Human rights groups greeted the Torch
on its arrival in Auckland, New
Zealand. 12/2007
(Photo: The Epoch Times)
rally and
us for
human rights in China
Global Human Rights Torch Relay
San Diego
Date: May 3, 2008, 12:00pm-4:00pm
Location: Balboa Park, Spreckels Organ
Pavilion, San Diego, CA 92101
Contact: Gisela Sommer, gisela3@cox.net
Your Action Makes a Difference!
Renowned human
rights attorney Mr.
Gao Zhisheng and
his family. Gao
was detained and
his family has
since been under
house arrest and
cut off from
contact with the
outside world.
"As we approach the Beijing Olympics,
I ask you to pay attention to the ongoing
human rights disaster in China [and]
seriously consider the extent to which
the values of morality, justice, and
humanity are undermined in China. "
- Gao Zhisheng, Sept. 20, 2007, from his
letter to the U.S. Congress.
Gao Zhisheng, a Christian, Nobel peace prize
nominee and recipient of the American
Board of Trial Advocacy's 2007 Courage
Award, was secretly detained by the CCP on
Sept. 23 following his open letter to the U.S.
Congress.
"We Want Human Rights,
Not the Olympics!
- Yang Chunlin,
human rights advocate of
Northern China.
Yang Chunlin initiated the "We Want
Human Rights, Not the Olympics"
movement inside China. In early 2007, he
walked from villages to villages in the cold
weather, visiting families after families in his
hometown and collected 11,035 signatures.
These signatures were brought overseas and
submitted to International Olympics
Committee. Yang Chunlin was detained by
the communist regime on July 6, 2007.
Voices from the West
Human Right Torch Relay-
An International Effort to Stop
Human Rights Abuses
by the Chinese Communist Party
"... it's simply impossible in my view to have
torture and killing going on in one part of
Beijing and the Games going on in another part
of Beijing.... It's totally incompatible with the
Olympic spirit and it must not and cannot go
on."
- Hon. David Kilgour,former
Canadian Secretarv of State for Asia Pacific
The City of San Jose Human Rights
Commission (November 7,2007) and the New
York State Senate (September 28, 2007) both
passed a resolution/proclamation to support the
aims and intentions of the global Human Rights
Torch Relay campaign.
www.HumanRighISTorCh.llrg
The Olympics and
Crimes Against
Humanity
Cannot Coexist
in China
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Co-sign the letter to International Committee
of Olympics at the HRTR website:
www.humanrightstorch.org.
Participate in "Millions of Signatures" anti-
persecution petition by the Coalition to
Investigate the Persecution ofFalun Gong
(CIPFG) at www.ciDfg.org.
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Your Action Makes a Difference!
www.HumanRightsTorch.org
The HRTR will enter China in the spring of
2008, to allow the Chinese people to participate
in this endeavor. For safety reasons, it will take
various formats such as wearing yellow T-shirts,
yellow ribbons, sending cell phone messages,
flyers, sending off balloons, etc.
May 3, 2008, San Diego
Balboa Park, Spreckels Organ Pavilion
Sample Proclamation
[Your Community]
The Office of [Official's Name], [Title]
Whereas, The Chinese communist regime has been granted the honor of hosting the 200k Beijing
Olympics with the provision that it improve its treatment of Chinese citizens;
Whereas, Human rights violations have increased since this honor was granted;
Whereas, The Chinese regime imprisons millions of Falun Gong practitioners, democracy advocates,
Christians, labor organizers and other innocent citizens in slave labor camps without trial;
Whereas, The Chinese regime illegally harvests organs for sale without consent from these prisoners
of conscience;
Whereas, The Chinese regime continues to occupy Tibet, and to attempts to erase the cultures of
Tibetans and Muslim Uighurs;
Whereas, The Chinese regime forces women to get abortions, even in the third trimester of pregnancy,
to enforce the "One Child per Family" rule;
Whereas, The Chinese regime is guilty of murdering more of its citizens than Hitler, Stalin, and Pol
Pot combined;
Whereas, The Olympic Charter calls for the Games to represent "respect for universal fundamental
ethical principles... the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society
concerned with the preservation of human dignity.. .Any form of discrimination with regard to a
country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with
belonging to the Olympic Movement"; And
Whereas, The CIPFG Human Torch Relay is dedicated to righting these wrongs, ending human rights
abuses in China, and preserving the Olympic spirit;
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Now, Therefore, I, [Official's Name], by the authority vested in me as [Titlel of the State of IState],
do hereby proclaim that [City] supports the aims and intentions of the
Human Rights Torch Relay
and invite all our citizens to join me in supporting this effort to improve society by ending human
rights violations in China.
In Whiteness Whereof; I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the official seal of the
(Your Community], [State], this XX'h day of [Month], A.D., 200X.
[Name, Title, Signature, Seal[