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These gays, people like me, want to be treated like full
citizens
and it's all written down in plain sight.
Specifically, this little amendment right here: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens
of the United States."
And that's not just about me, that's about so many other Michiganders, U.S. citizens, who don't understand why what they are is so much more significant than who they are.
Instead, let me talk about a couple of modes of intervention that we can all help accomplish, because they are modes of intervention that will come about when legislators and policymakers, when taxpayers and citizens, agree that that's what we ought to be doing and that's how we ought to be spending our money.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is staffed by journalists and
citizens
where they are crowd-sourcing what dictators and terrorists are doing with public funds around the world, and, in a more dramatic case, we've seen in Mexico, a country that has been racked by 50,000 narcotics-related murders in the past six years.
So in Mexico, citizens, at great risk to themselves, are fighting back to build an effective solution.
My personal belief is that, rather than having a small, elite force of highly trained government agents here to protect us all, we're much better off having average and ordinary
citizens
approaching this problem as a group and seeing what we can do.
This is some of the most exciting stuff in development and democracy, where
citizens
on the edge of a network are helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague stuff up at the top really delivers for people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid.
Specifically, the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits state governments from abusing its citizens, does not require state governments to intervene when private parties abuse its
citizens.
It is because the state, theoretically, acts on behalf of all
citizens
collectively, not any one citizen individually.
The resulting constitutional flaw directly contradicts international law, which requires nation-states to intervene and protect
citizens
against gender violence by private parties as a human right.
And the state has the discretion to dismiss criminal charges, enter lax plea deals and otherwise remove a victim's voice from the process, because again, a state theoretically represents the interests of all
citizens
collectively and not any one citizen individually.
It's not only to defend the Chinese regime from overseas, from the universal values, but also to prevent China's own
citizens
to access the global free Internet, and even separate themselves into blocks, not united.
So he can't prevent it, his own
citizens
to post critical videos against his corruption.
Last year, Americans killed each other at a rate of 5.3 per hundred thousand, had seven percent of their
citizens
in poverty and emitted 21 million tons of particulate matter and four million tons of sulfur dioxide.
My green [unclear] 25,000 pounds of vegetables, I'm growing organic citizens, engaged kids.
Somebody put up a tool during the copyright debate last year in the Senate, saying, "It's strange that Hollywood has more access to Canadian legislators than Canadian
citizens
do.
No democracy anywhere in the world offers this feature to its
citizens
for either legislation or for budgets, even though those are the things done with our consent and with our money.
There's no democracy worth the name that doesn't have a transparency move, but transparency is openness in only one direction, and being given a dashboard without a steering wheel has never been the core promise a democracy makes to its
citizens.
It was the expectation of the
citizens
that she would not be censored.
According to the latest survey being done by the European Commission, 89 percent of the
citizens
of Europe believe that there is a growing gap between the opinion of the policy-makers and the opinion of the public.
These days it's very popular to believe that this push for transparency, this kind of a combination between active citizens, new technologies and much more transparency-friendly legislation can restore trust in politics.
The system needs to change, and change starts with us all sharing a new humanitarian vision, one where you, global
citizens
with skills, expertise and resources, stand together with the local responders; one where we are all humanitarians, putting the necessary resources in the hands of those who need them most and are best placed to use them effectively and efficiently.
Governments exist to channel the flow of two things, really, values and expertise to and from government and to and from
citizens
to the end of making decisions.
We might even call them citizens, because they've recently risen up to fight against legislative incursion, and the
citizens
of these networks work together to serve each other in great ways.
Powerful, practical, palpable model for handing power from government to
citizens.
Sberbank, the largest and oldest bank in Russia, largely owned by the Russian government, has started practicing crowdsourcing, engaging its employees and
citizens
in the public in developing innovations.
British Columbia, Canada, is publishing a catalogue of all the ways that its residents and
citizens
can engage with the state in the cocreation of governance.
Russia is using wikis to get
citizens
writing law together, as is Lithuania.
Governments in Africa have therefore been given an opportunity, by the international community, to avoid building productive arrangements with your own citizens, and therefore allowed to begin endless negotiations with the IMF and the World Bank, and then it is the IMF and the World Bank that tell them what its
citizens
need.
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