CI Powerpoint

Monday

• People you need to know• Current situation with Syria

• KQ- Is it in America’s best interest to punish Syria?

• KQ2- Is Obama doing the right thing by going to Congress?

Barack Obama

• President• Former Democratic Senator from IL

Joe Biden

• Vice President (Democrat)• Former Senator from DE• From Scranton

John Kerry-Secretary of State

• Former Senator from MA• Former Pres. candidate

John Boehner

• Speaker of the House of Representatives• From Ohio

Harry Reid

• Senate Majority Leader• From Nevada

Bashar al Assad

• Military leader (dictator) of Syria• Has led since 2000• Took over for his dad who – Ruled for 30 years

Vladimir Putin

• President of Russia• Judo expert• Changes the rules to stay

The Situation with Syria

• Civil war between rebels (terrorists?) and the government

• Been going on for several years• Reached a boiling point when (apparently)

chemical weapons used

Why no UN?

• Russia has veto power• China is vetoing too• Russia and Syria are trading partners• Russia has repeatedly vetoed attempts of

using the UN

More Stuff

• China and Syria are also trading partners, and Iran is on Syria’s side

• Great Britain voted down involvement• The “rebels” may be working with some

groups that we would call terrorists.

US Options

• Congress approves tomahawk cruise missile strike, Obama authorizes

• Congress votes down cruise missile strike, Obama uses executive order

• Congress votes down missile strike, and the US doesn’t get involved.

• **Obama has said no troops on the ground. We really don’t want to remove Assad

Based off of what we’ve talked about, what’s being said here?

What is this saying? Which would kind of lead to which one being the “better” choice

To close…

• What should we do? Boils down to this. If people are being killed by a regime, is it our job to intervene or not?

• Discuss

Monday

• Gun Control: Recall in Colorado• Key Question: Should gun control be

increased?

Recall vote in Colorado

What is a recall?

• People get petitions signed• Election prior to the ending of someone’s term• It is a way of eliminating people from office for

egregious votes that are not illegal actions that would disqualify someone from service

State Senators’ John Morse and Angela Giron

What did they do?

• Voted in favor of universal background checks and limiting the size of magazine clips

• In response to the mass shooting in Aurora

• Similar things passed in Maryland, New York, and other states, but Colorado is different.

Answer…

• Do you agree with the recall?

• Do you agree with what the two voted for?

• You can say Yes to both, and No to both. Procedure versus Policy

Facts…surprises?

   Households With a Gun

 Adults Owning a Gun

 Adults Owning a Handgun

Percentage  40-45%  30-34%  17-19%

Number  47-53 million 70-80 million  40-45 million

More percentages…anything surprising?

Category  Percentage Owninga Firearm

Households  42%Individuals  30%Male  47%Female  13%White  33%Nonwhite  18%Republican  41%Independent  27%Democrat  23%

In the same poll, the reasons stated…

Protection Against Crime  67%Target Shooting  66%Hunting  58%

Sobering statistics…

• Based on survey data from the U.S. Department of Justice, roughly 5,340,000 violent crimes were committed in the United States during 2008.

• Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year

• At the current homicide rate, roughly one in every 240 Americans will be murdered.

• Right to personal protection (close to a million a year) or is it part of the problem?

Wednesday

• One interesting headline.• Political Cartoon Analysis• Please record the topics and thoughts

associated with each cartoon.

• Essential Skill-Analyze political cartoons for message, symbols, and context

Man guilty of “tricking” girlfriend into abortion

• Told her it was antibiotics• Charged under the Unborn Victim of Violence

Act, which would carry mandatory life sentence.

• Pled guilty so he could get 13 years instead of life.

• Too short, too long?• What if it was reversed?

Why?

• Taxation• Rules• Health Care mandate

• Agree/Disagree?

Stuff…

• Obama won Nobel Prize in 2009• Missiles aimed at Syria• Contradiction?

• People working multiple jobs• Irony…Labor Day was about the rights and

celebration of the Labor movement and workers

• A recovery where we have to work multiple jobs…is it a recovery?

What we talked about yesterday…

Ouch…

• Message: We are more concerned with salacious stuff than the plight of people in Syria

• No oversight on those spying on us.• 4th amendment- Right to be secure in your

possessions, papers, belongings from unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant

Ouch!

Pope Francis

• Argentinian• All about the poor• Called out Obama over Syria• Called out EVERYONE over refugees from Syria• Though conservative, has shown to be flexible

on gay issues.

A striking contrast… but misleading too.