The White House is making it more difficult for groups of citizens to petition the government.
Yesterday, they announced that they’re raising the signature threshold for responding to petitions from 25,000 to over 100,000 signatures within 30 days.
Apparently, too many complaints (petitions) are reaching the previous threshold too quickly for them to respond adequately.
The White House writes:
As we’ve seen overall use skyrocket, more petitions are crossing the threshold — and doing so much more quickly.
In the first 10 months of 2012, it took an average of 18 days for a new petition to cross the 25,000-signature threshold. In the last two months of the year, that average time was cut in half to just 9 days, and most petitions that crossed the threshold collected 25,000 signatures within five days of their creation. More than 60 percent of the petitions to cross threshold in all of 2012 did so in the last two months of the year.
The White House called the increase in participation a “good problem” to have.
Turns out that ‘good problem’ is only getting better, so we’re making another adjustment to ensure we’re able to continue to give the most popular ideas the time they deserve.
The White House included a nifty infographic to illustrate the announcement:
This is to avoid the release of the newly installed Sandy Hook Elementary security video, that would show Lanza did carry a rifle into the school building with him, and if he did it alone.. Please sign the petition.. His rifle was shown on camera being removed from the trunk of his car, yet he supposedly used it in the shootings? There were also multiple reports of more than one shooter, even by witnesses..
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-video-surveillance-footage-sandy-hook-elementary-school-during-shooting-massacre/Nq9zmSTc
OK I apologize, this is my fault. No, really it is. Because three days ago I started a petition, my first. Basically is was a petition to deny all petitions that suggest sedition against the US Constitution.
It can be seen here:
https: //petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-sandy-hook-hoax-websites-channels-and-videos/WkKmcGnG
Basically it says:
Any request for a petition whose intent is to curtail any American’s rights including the Bill of Rights is sedition and bordering on Treason. It is unconstitutional to even suggest restricting the right to free speech.
Any person considering such is either uneducated or anti-American.
So if you could please go and check it out. Weigh in if you feel it is appropriate to do so.
Oops that was the petition that made me write the one presented here:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/petition-request-deny-petitions-infringe-freedom-speech-even-remotely-suggest-such/7kZTd2FV
Weigh in on this one as well. Might as well be fair and balanced?
Oh how convienent too many people telling us we are wrong? Lets just make a new law.It never stops.So very corrupt these laws are