White House Petitions: Secession, Jones, and Death Stars.
A few years back, Obama had to respond to the number one question asked for a youtube forum — it was Marijuana Legalization. Â He gave one of those sort of giggling responses.
There’s a selection bias on this. Â And the “We the People” petitions which the White House has threshold of signatures that force them to respond. Â Passion is the key. Â See, for instance…
We Request Obama Be Impeached for the Following Reasons.
The White House staff set in charge of responding to such a thing can just sleep walk through the answer. Â I note that the answer on why signing “Obama Care” is not an impeachable offense is off — it wouldn’t be impeachable if the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional — but in a case of an un-serious petition, a bit of chest thumping is in order.
Here’s one of those petitions that received a bit of attention a month or two back…
We Request (name of State) be allowed to secede for the Union.
A good chance to quote Lincoln.
The two petitions that are receiving some attention right now… the freak Alex Jones — and if this reads right the petition was started by one Kurt Nimmo who anyone whose bounded about Alex Jones would know well enough  — and the “Deport Piers Morgan” thing.  CNN — why would they bring out a platform for Alex Jones in the first place?  — Glenn Beck calls Alex Jones a “Fascist” — and in this case we do have to say, Jones / Nimmo’s opinion expressed … is fascist.  Whether or not Alex Jones has “exposed him of being a shill of the new world order” is immaterial.
This is a no brainer answer for the White House … “The First Amendment is still valid“.
The other big petition — the Death Star Petition — one of those “too cute by half” items which are meaningless humor pieces —
gets this send-off.
And, okay, that makes even this bit of silliness all worth it afterall.