Team Bravo

Carole Harvill, Candace Gallegos, Brian Wetjen, Michelle Majette, and Jesse Palmer

Act of kindness

• New York cop gives homeless man a pair of shoes and socks.

Pay it forward

• A kind man pays for a few peoples bill on the day before Thanksgiving.

• Personal experience – a total of 30 people paid for the persons order behind them in a Dunkin Donuts drive thru.

Clerks Fight Back

Clerks Go Vigilante

It was a rainy Monday morning in Miami when 22yr old Charles Bell shoved a pistol into the face of a manager behind the counter. He demanded cash and cigarettes, he then took customers to the back, when he returned the manager Valentin Fiallos pointed a .38 and squeezed the trigger.

Vigilante Justice

Unintended Death

Timothy Chandler had been arrested on child pornography charges, two of his neighbors decided to scare him out of the neighborhood by setting his house on fire. Chandler escaped from the flames but his wife Melisa did not. His two neighbors were arrested and charged with first degree murder and arson.

Holy Beat Down

“The Beat Down”

A California man is accused of tracking down a priest that allegedly molested him three decades ago. 43yr old William Lynch was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for the May 10th attack on 65yr old Rev. Jerold Lindner. Lynch harbored this anger for the priest who also allegedly also molested his little brother.

Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating the Law to Change the Law

• UC to pay damages in Davis pepper-spraying

• September 2012: The University of California will pay $30,000 to each of 21 students who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy rally on campus.

• Although the students were protesting peacefully, campus security took extreme measures to end the protest.

• School administration stated, “administrators are urged to use mediation instead of confrontation in most civil disobedience cases, although it said pepper spray might remain a necessary tool of last resort”

Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating the Law to Change the Law

• Smoking pot in Independence Park to make a historical point

• October 2, 2012, Chris Goldstein lit a joint in the middle of Independence park and got. . .stoned; not arrested.

• He stated, “this is how smoking marijuana should be. . .everyday there are thousands of people getting arrested for pot, and for this amount of pot. . .mostly young black men are getting arrested for this”.

• The act of civil disobedience was held in the 75th anniversary of the arrest of Samuel Caldwell and Moses Baba, who were arrested in 1937 are the passage of the federal Marijuana Act.

• Goldstein is calling for the repeal of marijuana laws which he feels disproportionately affects minorities.

Acts of Civil Disobedience: Violating the Law to Change the Law

• Veterans for Peace Among 33 Arrested Outside Drone Base in New York State– Members of Veterans for Peace were arrested

before being able to approach Hancock Air Field. They were trying to deliver a written statement

– The group was trying to exercise their 1st Amendment right to ‘petition our government for a redress of grievances’. They were attempting to serve an indictment to those committing war crimes with the use of drones.

July 2, 2008 Bogotá, ColumbiaA Columbian soldier wore a Red Cross bib during a military attempt to rescue hostages held by the Revolutionary Forces of Columbia (FARC).

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe acknowledged the use of the logo.

Misuse of the Red Cross logo is a war crime defined by the Geneva Conventions, which Columbia signed in 1949. This abuse of the Red Cross could jeopardize the validity of future Red Cross missions and the safety of the volunteers involved.

The rescue mission was successful. Former presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, three US contractors and 11 Colombian soldiers were removed from the captors. Is the act of a war crime absolved because hostages were rescued?

September 22, 2011 Moorfield Eye Hospital London, EnglandPatients in Britain with an incurable eye disease which causes blindness, are receiving embryonic stem cells.

Medical teams wish to halt, or at least slow, the progress of Stargardt’s macular dystrophy; a disease that attacks the retina causing irreparable damage.

Physicians are supposed to protect life and sustain life. Restoring sight to individuals is compliant with the Hippocratic oath.

Embryonic stem cells are obtained from a fetus; a non-living fetus.

Is the death of an embryonic human less important than restoring sight to the potentially blind human?

April 13, 1999 Oakland County, MichiganDr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder for committing physician-assisted-suicide.

Tom Youk suffered two years battling Lou Gehrig's disease. As per a 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, Kevorkian said, “Tom was terrified of choking.” Youk asked Dr. Kevorkian to relieve him of pain by helping him end his life. (Link to CBS video: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7368313n).

Dr. Kevorkian valued the quality of life endured by Mr. Youk. He wished to cease the pain and suffering of his patient. Death was the only cure.

Society in the form of the court system disallowed Mr. Youk the freedom to end his life as he wished.

Does society render a physician as criminal because he wishes to end the patient’s personal suffering?

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