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Topic: White House ‘secede’ petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation |
White House ‘secede’ petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation
Daily Caller, by David Martosko
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Posted By:Drive, 11/14/2012 8:36:53 AM
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| Less than a week after a New Orleans suburbanite petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede from the United States, petitions from seven states have collected enough signatures to trigger a promised review from the Obama administration. By 6:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states, according to a Daily Caller analysis of requests lodged with the White House’s “We the People” online petition system.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/14/2012 8:40:01 AM (No. 9013285)
Denied
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 11/14/2012 8:40:53 AM (No. 9013286)
Complete feel-good silliness.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
The Architect, 11/14/2012 8:44:56 AM (No. 9013296)
If that many people are that desperate, how many have just given up hope? You can label me a conspiracy theorist, but I don´t believe that Zippy won the election legally. I think there was voter fraud on a scale never seen before. 59 districts in Philly and not a single person voted for Romney out of hundreds of thousands?! I don´t buy it. Allen West gets a partial re-count and discovers 500 fraudulent votes and now they won´t give him a total re-count? There is something really bad going on here. I think we have had a Communist coup and we don´t even know it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 11/14/2012 8:45:31 AM (No. 9013299)
Session did not work last time. So, this time let´s just kick some states out!
Let´s start with California and Illinois.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 11/14/2012 8:54:18 AM (No. 9013325)
And how many will sign after Taxmageddon hits? Or full implementation of Obambicare?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Srhea, 11/14/2012 8:55:39 AM (No. 9013327)
Maybe this is the only way out of this mess!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 11/14/2012 9:03:31 AM (No. 9013351)
Agree 100% with #3. Wouldn´t it be a hoot if everyone, in every state, who voted for R&R signed the petition. How much would you want to be we found all those missing conservative voters? Of course, many would be afraid to sign in fear of retribution.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 11/14/2012 9:05:00 AM (No. 9013356)
Generally, I don´t sign petitions. This one is potentially dangerous because obama, holder et al. are mad men. Beware of administration enemies lists. obama already took out GOP owned Chrysler dealers. Sure, it´s understood that car dealers are likely GOP. But obama has no deniability that he singled out Republican dealers for elimination in that there were few if any exceptions. Crony capitalism is a hallmark of obama. Political persecution is to be feared.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
country boy, 11/14/2012 9:06:57 AM (No. 9013360)
If Romney had won, we would see nothing like this. The food stamp crowd would just roll over in bed, get up an hour later.
Juxtapose this against the vote count. Strongly indicates massive election fraud.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pondguy, 11/14/2012 9:11:04 AM (No. 9013379)
Obama- "The Great Unifier"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Laureen1, 11/14/2012 9:20:59 AM (No. 9013413)
Also agree 100% with #3! I also agree about the retribution factor of signing such petitions. However, we have to stop being afraid of our own gov´t - even if it is Obama. This is the same type of thing that gets mocked like the "birthers". I still, to this day, do not get what is wrong with demanding to see a presidential candidate´s birth certificate since the Founding Fathers did see fit to put the "natural born citizen" requirement in.
Seems to me once the left deems something stupid everybody latches on to it as as conspiracy theory. Just like the demonization of the tea party. But try to deamonize any of the millions of freaks on the left and you´re the freak.
Cannot believe I am living in this time and my 19 year old has to begin his future in this mess.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 11/14/2012 9:36:44 AM (No. 9013466)
Perry still wants to run for potus. I can understand his response, but he is on record as having flirted with the idea in the past, so I think I know his true feelings.
Those who think this is due to Obama´s re-eection are only partly correct. This election was the last straw for many of us who feel we are past the point of no return. Its not about Obama, its about the monsters that have been bred by the socialist movement that has been under way since the 1920s.
Some are ok with it and even prefer this approach, but why should we all suffer? Split this union uo and allow some states to return to founding principles, if they so choose.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Susannah, 11/14/2012 10:01:24 AM (No. 9013526)
The person in Louisiana who started this may have been serious, or semi-serious, but it should be obvious that whole thing has become a gag. Fifty little independent nations? It´s the Balkans Redux!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
voxlapidis, 11/14/2012 10:15:25 AM (No. 9013571)
If all 50 States want secession, then secession isn´t necessary. Just a mutual agreement to dissolve.
Does that mean 50 votes in the U.N.?
Actually more than 50 because all those territories automatically become independent.
A nice mental exercise. Hopefully not a reality.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dogbreath, 11/14/2012 10:23:12 AM (No. 9013605)
This is a bad idea, one of the worst.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 11/14/2012 11:05:00 AM (No. 9013750)
I think its telling that the people who support Obama want to punish those of us who want freedom from his tyranny (see some of the counter petitions on the site for more info). The worst thing for statists is to allow their prey to have freedom. Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, East Germany... are all good examples of what I mean. The last thing the socialists/statists want is for people to be able to escape their grasp.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
KTWO, 11/14/2012 12:06:34 PM (No. 9013925)
ditto #2. People express their frustration and may feel good for a moment. But it is a dead end.
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