I got this email......

I got this email today asking me to sign an online petition.

It's for a great cause.  I totally agree with what it is for.  I agree something should be done.  (I'll tell you more about it later)

However, just how effective are e-petitions?  Maybe not so much.  Go and read this:Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Internet Petitions), take your time I'll be here when you get back.

hmmm........

Back?  Ok.  First let me say that I have "signed" e-petitions in the past and I may do so in the future.  I am not knocking them.  I am NOT telling you to not sign one.

I'm going to give you MY opinion (along with that of the above article at snoopes.com).  I believe that we would get a better, a more positive response from writing/calling our elected officals.  Maybe even a real honest to goodness PAPER petition. 

Why?  It is easier to ignore or to explain away e-petitions.  How many times can one person sign endless names?  Depends on how many computers he/she has access to or how well the program is written to shut down such attempts.  I believe that is what the "officals" will say.  It would harder to ignore 1,000 signatures on a piece of paper or 1,000 letters. 

As much as we do online it may be hard to believe (and I could very well be wrong) but if you want someone's attention the best way to get it is with the pen and paper or the trusty telepone.

Here's a link you need to keep handy.  If you don't know who your elected offcials are you can find out here: Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting, you can also look for your state's web page.  I live in NC so I did a search: NC state offical web page, and a couple of choices popped up.  I saw the page I was looking for, brought it up and low and behold there is a link on that page for all the elected officals here in NC.

Whew......are you still with me?  The email I got, the cause it is for.....that's what prompted me to do this entry.  Here I am going to copy/paste the email.  I totally agree that this is wrong and this woman should not be put to death.  Sign the petition, but call your elected officals to.  It is a shame that Iran still values their women so little.

Please note that the email says that in 5 days the woman will be hanged.  But I don't see a date on the petition. So I don't know how long you have to sign it, so if you are intertested hurry.

Citizens of the world we don't have much time. In five days, a woman called Nazanin will be hanged for trying to honor her body as three men saw it fit, to take whatever they chose. Such men are called rapists but Iran, the man is protected and the woman is not. The man shines on his alter and the women are garbage.

 

Nazanin protected herself and was able to stab one of the rapists and infact, he did die. During the courts, she cried and said that she didn't mean to kill him where in America, a woman can say with confidence, I did mean to kill him. I meant to protect my life and my body with all of my being.

 

It's sad that a woman's body is garbage to some. We can pull together and sign a petition for her and in hopes of saving her and while stating, we honor her. Miracles can be hard to hope for but I will cry greatly if she dies in five days especially, when hope is just ten seconds of your time. Its' so utterly devastating to me.

 

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

 

Please signthe petition and send a message to Iran, that Nazanin is not garbage!

 

SAVE NAZANIN