White House Petition To Pardon Edward Snowden Zooms Past 100,000 Signatures
from the that-didn't-take-long-at-all dept
A petition set up on the White House's "We the People" petition site asking the Obama administration to pardon Edward Snowden has already passed 100,000 signatures, and shows no signs of slowing down, with a few weeks still left to go. That means that, in theory, the White House is supposed to issue a response to the petition. Of course, that response could be "hell, no" but it seems more likely that it will be something about letting the DOJ investigation, indictment and charges go through their due course. Still, it is worth noting -- especially in comparison to other petitions -- just how quickly this one got to 100,000 signatures. There are an awful lot of Americans who think that Snowden did something brave and important in revealing how the NSA was spying on us all. Having politicians continue to refer to him as a "traitor" seems like a really short sighted position. A fairly large number of people clearly feel quite the opposite is true.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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1. You need an account, and people don't want to sign up.
2. People are concerned about being labeled as subversive if they sign it.
3. People know that the petition thing is bullshit, so they don't bother
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Masnicking: daily spurts of short and trivial traffic-generating items.
Meanwhile, the IRS story has been dropped by "mainstream media", as has the Benghazi caper, and the new "immigration" bill is on verge of passing with near complete anmesty besides "leglizing" a new flood. And Wall Street capers go on without a single person tossed into jail, the "too big to fail" banks continue with risky derivatives that could collapse the world economy. And they're gearing up for full scale invasion of Syria to help out the cannibalistic "rebels".
But ignoring all of importance, Monetizing Mike just re-writes a paragraph about a silly "petition".
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Article about mass copyright abuse: omfg! (More ad hom) this isn't important! Why you no talk about (something unrelated to tech or dirt.)!
Article about something of national import: 'what about all the other important topics, (ad homs)!'
Article about one of those other more important things: "rawr, Google is worse! Why you love Google so much?!"
How about we keep comments on the topic of the article for once.Then we ccan go comment about the other stuff on those Articles...
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Which means that Masnick is right on the money, and all out_of_the_ass can do is gnash his teeth.
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oh right. you would
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The response with be the same as Manning's
Thank you for signing the petition [Pardon Edward Snowden.] We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on WhiteHouse.gov.
The We the People Terms of Participation explain that "the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government." The [Justice Department/NSA/CIA] is charged with enforcing the [Espionage Act/etc.] Accordingly, the White House declines to comment on the specific case raised in this petition.
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Now "Need To Know" depends on your view-point with respect to the rights of a citizen. The standing rule at my commands was if I asked I had an automatic need to know. Shit, I wouldn't ask, otherwise. That crap was a distraction from my "special projects." Unfortunately, now, the right to petition for redress of grievances and the informed consent of the governed got lost somewhere in the gutting of the Constitution.
So, I have a few questions for my government. Anybody willing to step up and explain to me why you are doing what you are doing, realistically (not come media-grade BS). I've got a "real good" BS-detector here and it's edging towards 8.5 on a logarithmic scale. You really don't want to see a Yellowstone Caldera "event" happen.
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They already did:
http://blog.chembark.com/2013/04/04/radio-prank-dihydrogen-monoxide-in-the-water/
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To 'pardon' him would mean accepting the assertion that he committed a crime, which I don't believe he did. This type of action shouldn't NEED to be pardoned.
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Pardon is not the answer...
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100k ABOUT SNOWDEN
100,000 out of 300 million, what percentage of the population is that anyway ??? we'll it's about 1% of 10 million, 0.1% of 100 million so 0.03% of 300 million ?? correct me if I am wrong please.
Hmmm, does not seem all that significant to me !!!!
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Did you notice the quote at the Petitions.WhiteHouse.gov front page?
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AKA
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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen- ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire- assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb
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pardon edward snowden
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It's the truth.
As for me, I am staying neutral. So please leave me out of it.
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Snowden is the greatest
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