Ch-ch-ch-changes
(Wired)
Aw, man, it was just getting fun:
“Starting today, as we move into a second term, [We the People] petitions must receive 100,000 signatures in 30 days in order to receive an official response from the Obama Administration. This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist.”
No more petitions to secede? To build Death Stars? To deport unpopular Brits (I was strangely OK with that one)?
It’s tyranny! or Tranny because I cannot spell and I’m too lazy to look it up!
Petitions against trannies? So we’d have to say goodbye to Ann Coulter?
Seems to be a rather high threshold to elicit a response.
I agree, having one in three thousand Americans sign a petition sounds like we’re writing stuff into LAW or something!
Having read several of the petitions and scanned quite a few more, I doubt that there is any threshold high enough. Perhaps this seemed like a good idea in the abstract, but once inaugurated into the real world one discovers that said real world is populated with lunatics, God botherers, goof-offs, birthers, fetus fondlers, sexists, gun nuts, racists, dipshits, wingnuts, loons and wackos of every size, shape and persuasion. There may be a useful, rational idea in the site, but I never met it.
If nothing else, “We The People” might become useful as a scale for measuring just how deep the various drifts of lunacy go.