This obviously means that people are upset. What is not so clear is the motivation: what issues are the issues behind dissent? Or are they simply so many issues that each individual issue might not be sufficient to cause the people to demand change, but all together are sufficient to cause the people to seek change? Is this a philanthropic grassroots-driven request, or a republican-driven request for more power?
/via +L. Charles Burch
White House Forced to Confront State Petitions to Secede? (Updated)
Joe Wright Activist Post The White House website has been bombarded with petitions that have mushroomed to all 50 states moving to secede. The first petition came in from Louisiana the day after Obama…
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Oh, those conspiracy theories…! So, out of curiosity, what is your view on 8 years of Bush rule, and what historical figure you would you compare him with, +L. Charles Burch ?
+L. Charles Burch, 4th Reich? Sir, have you traveled abroad? It is still, if not the best, then one of the best countries to live in! One of us is out of touch with reality. And definitely too much Fox News for you!
mI constantly wonder where the 2 countries would be if South and North never joined. Looks like progress vs conservatism. Nice to have moderation of both but sometimes lack of reasoning by so called "more virtuous" side makes me wish they would split and eat up their trueth in practice and hopefully grow up. But again it would probably just be a bad and unhappy neighbor… with Rupert Murdoch as its head 😉
+Gurudatta Raut Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
Guess where we are today.
NIH +Sophie Wrobel Russia is and always will be the Holy See of Not Invented Here. They will do it the Russian way.
+L. Charles Burch the proxy war moved a little bit to the west two days ago. Hamas got its warning shot yesterday.
+Francois Demers I thought they were learning from other countries (like China and Iran) on how to avoid official declarations of war, and how to choose their battlefields?
Sophie, Russia is at war with the USA. The White House and the Pentagon have not been informed yet. Soon now…
+Francois Demers you forgot Russia: they have no reason to knock on the White House either!
For that one I'm logging in and signing.
For instance, this one has twice as many signatures as most of the secession petitions.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/force-all-states-pay-their-portion-national-debt-they-can-secede-union/St0y9qBM
They have to vote for you if you're going to win the Republican primaries. Unfortunately whatever you say to them to get that nomination makes you a liability in the general election. Rather a bit of a tough spot for the Republican party.
Honest question. Is this truly the core of the far right that Romney was courting?
"We lost the election. Fine, we'll secede from the union and start our own country."
How could any candidate expect to win the majority by courting these people?
I can assure you most of the petitions are quite amusing and, therefore, not very worrisome.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-city-atlanta-leave-withdraw-state-georgia-and-remain-part-united-states/Dldp5hKT
The EU could also petition the White House to secede peacefully +Sophie Wrobel that would be a step in the right direction for Europe. Of course, The UK would not sign.
Of course calling names and forgetting real issues deserves credibility…
+John Poteet is right these people are the same right wing crazies and racists that formed the tea party. They do not deserve credibility, when the reality is they are upset that a black man is still president.
Meaningless other than as an expression of outrage from the deepest sectors of the reality-denying right wing. The only concern is if some of them start shooting at stuff because the necessity of questioning suspects will spark more fictional tales of oppression.
Apparently this comes up every presidential election but it's just particularly loud this time around.
States haven't petitioned for anything. From what I've read these are White House petitions started by some American citizens. And I saw a few petitions asking for the people supporting the seceding petitions to have their citizenship revoked.
Idiots being idiots, nothing more