Americans Now Being Imprisoned If They Are Too Poor To Pay Tickets
Source: www.courthousenews.com | Original Post Date: October 30, 2015 –
AUSTIN, Texas (CN) – Austin, Texas is the latest city to face a federal class action accusing it of reinstituting debtors’ prisons by jailing people who are too poor to pay fines for traffic tickets and petty misdemeanors.
Such lawsuits have mushroomed in the past year, in the aftermath of the protests of the white-on-black police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson and several neighboring cities were accused of targeting black drivers for traffic stops, and jailing them, and “debtors’ prisons” lawsuits have sprouted all over the United States. They typically challenge the constitutionality of a local jurisdiction’s practice of jailing people who cannot afford to pay fines for petty offenses, and attribute it in part to racial discrimination.
Daily Message ~ Monday December 14, 2015
Dear Ones, do you know what brings you joy? What you are passionate about? What makes your heart sing? Sadly, many of you have been so consumed with duty and caring for others, that your own joyful activities have gone by the wayside.
If you do not know what brings you joy, it is your sacred mission, right now, to figure that out. An easy way to get some clarity is to go to a book store or library and browse up and down every aisle. Where you linger the longest is an indicator of where your interests lay. This is an excellent way of discovering what draws you without investing a large amount of money and time.
We encourage you to decide right now, before the start of a new year, to actively pursue pastimes that make your heart happy, allow you to feel fully present, and honour your own interests. If you understand that following your passions puts you into alignment with your soul and Source energy, there is no such thing as being too busy do so.
Don’t pressure yourself to find the perfect activity or to excel at it. Enjoyment is the indicator of success in this situation, so try many things and if you don’t like something, try something else! It is a embarking on grand voyage of self discovery and joyful expansion, that you simply cannot get wrong. ~Archangel Gabriel
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What Am I?
What do you think I am?
I am the quiet voice of encouragement when you need it most.
I am the feeling of love that comes over you when no one else is around.
I am the forgiveness you finally allow yourself.
I am the joy in the connection with others.
I am the laughter that comes from nowhere.
I am that moment of accomplishment during what you feel is your worst day.
Notice, embrace and know I am with you always. ~ Creator
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Harmonology – Vibration and the Laws of Universal Nature
By Stephen John O’Connor
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Not A ‘Normal’ Journey
I have been on a journey for most of my life. Not a normal journey, but one of the soul, the spirit – of the one behind the one who I thought I was. Something or someone has been propelling me through this lifetime as though I am a passenger on a fate-bound mystical train with no way to look forward and only a view of where I have been.
Since I was very young, I felt urged toward uncovering the occult secrets of the Masters from the past. I read and I discovered. First, came the Western Esoteric Tradition. It started with the College of Esoteric Studies out of Barbados. Then, The Rosicrucian Order A.M.O.R.C., where I became Master of the Lodge. Continuing my search, I read Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Wei Wu Wei, and Harold Percival. All pretty heady stuff. I felt like I was making progress, but to where?
God Spins Gold
God said:
Beloved Child of Mine, remind yourself that, when you feel low, even at your very lowest, you are in a good place, for you are like a pitcher in baseball who pulls his arm way back before he throws the ball. Or, you are like a runner, who gets down low, then sprints forward with great momentum. Or, you are like an archer pulling back on your bow. When you stop pulling back and let go, whatever you are sending goes faster and farther and on target.
When you feel low, you are going to spring forward with power. You are going to rise to new heights.
I ask you not to be discouraged. Discouraged means disheartened. Certainly, you are not to dishearten yourself.
You can only rise higher. You will get up from being down. You have done it before. And you will do it again. As you rise, so will others. You set the momentum. You break the barriers that were in your mind, and others will also.
All your battles are with yourself. When you feel depressed, you have depressed yourself. Others and other matters may press upon you, yet you set the tone. If you feel reviled, you are the one who reviles yourself.
And when you feel inspired, no matter how much others have inspired you, you are your own inspirer.
You are your own everything, your own detractor, hider, show-off, mover, story-teller, actor and star of the show, target, savior, dispenser, mistake-maker, affronter, disbeliever, believer, astounder, rebounder, derelict, beater, jailer, freer. You are the belle of the ball, and you are the wallflower.
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