{"id":11028,"date":"2013-01-13T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11028"},"modified":"2013-01-13T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:37:06","slug":"white-house-petitions-secession-jones-and-death-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/01\/13\/white-house-petitions-secession-jones-and-death-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Petitions: Secession, Jones, and Death Stars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Obama had to respond to the number one question asked for a youtube forum &#8212; it was Marijuana Legalization. \u00c2\u00a0He gave one of those sort of giggling responses.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a selection bias on this. \u00c2\u00a0And the &#8220;We the People&#8221; petitions which the White House has threshold of signatures that force them to respond. \u00c2\u00a0Passion is the key. \u00c2\u00a0See, for instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/we-request-obama-be-impeached-following-reasons\/cpk4V6zK\">We Request Obama Be Impeached for the Following Reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The White House staff set in charge of responding to such a thing can just sleep walk through the answer. \u00c2\u00a0I note that the answer on why signing &#8220;Obama Care&#8221; is not an impeachable offense is off &#8212; it wouldn&#8217;t be impeachable if the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional &#8212; but in a case of an un-serious petition, a bit of chest thumping is in order.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of those petitions that received a bit of attention a month or two back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/response\/our-states-remain-united\">We Request (name of State) be allowed to secede for the Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A good chance to quote Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>The two petitions that are receiving some attention right now&#8230; the freak Alex Jones &#8212; and if this reads right the petition was started by one Kurt Nimmo who anyone whose bounded about Alex Jones would know well enough \u00c2\u00a0&#8212; and the &#8220;Deport Piers Morgan&#8221; thing. \u00c2\u00a0CNN &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2013\/01\/car-crash-tv-piers-morgan-versus-alex-jones\/\">why would they bring out a platform for Alex Jones in the first place<\/a>? \u00c2\u00a0&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/glenn-beck-i-believe-alex-jones-is-a-fascist.html\">Glenn Beck calls Alex Jones a &#8220;Fascist&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; and in this case we do have to say, Jones \/ Nimmo&#8217;s opinion expressed &#8230; is fascist. \u00c2\u00a0Whether or not Alex Jones has &#8220;exposed him of being a shill of the new world order&#8221; is immaterial.<\/p>\n<p>This is a no brainer answer for the White House &#8230; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/response\/when-discussing-second-amendment-keep-first-mind-too\">The First Amendment is still valid<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The other big petition &#8212; the Death Star Petition &#8212; one of those &#8220;too cute by half&#8221; items which are meaningless humor pieces &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>g<a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/response\/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking\">ets this send-o<\/a>ff.<\/p>\n<p>And, okay, that makes even this bit of silliness all worth it afterall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Obama had to respond to the number one question asked for a youtube forum &#8212; it was Marijuana Legalization. \u00c2\u00a0He gave one of those sort of giggling responses. There&#8217;s a selection bias on this. \u00c2\u00a0And the &#8220;We the People&#8221; petitions which the White House has threshold of signatures that force them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}