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MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal
An anonymous reader writes "The petition on 'We the People' website petitioning the administration to investigate Chris Dodd for corruption has reached the required 25,000 votes in two days: now the government has to officially respond to the petition. The petition ... stemmed from Chris Dodd's statement that tried to portray campaign donations as quid-pro-quos for SOPA/PIPA votes."
We the People: This is bribery! We demand you investigate yourselves!
Gov'ment: We've investigated ourselves thoroughly, and we're guilty (sad-face)
...the White House quietly removes the We the People petition system.
Don't be silly. There is no "HAS TO" when the government is involved. And a one word response of "DENIED" is all you are likely to get, or the Washington equivalent, of a vague promise of having it looked into, followed by a chuckle-fest in the back room over brandy on the rocks.
The whole thing sort of reminds me of one of the typical flame fests here on Slashdot or Usenet. Lots of smelly wet wool. But nobody notices that you "won the internet".
WTF is wrong with you!?! I can't believe that you could say such a thing!!!
Everyone knows that you *never* serve brandy on the rocks. Geez!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
Yeah. It would be fun if a popular techie-friendly website such as Slashdot or Reddit would sponsor a wager contest: write the expected BS response, and the one closest to the actual BS response from govt gets a prize.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
You didn't really think they'd take the take these petitions seriously petition seriously, did you? Of course not. They're waiting for the inevitable take this take this petition seriously petition seriously petition. Then they'll reply. Maybe. And when they do, they'll take this take this take this petition seriously petition seriously petition seriously.
Seriously.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the White House has Dodd himself write a response. When the "End the TSA" petition got a response, it was written by the head of the TSA. Why not?
Former US House candidate, TN-5
Revolution, you say? Maybe tomorrow, American Idol is on tonight...
All the world's a CPU, and all the men and women merely AI agents
And there will be giggling at the little people thinking that the WH joke website will be taken into consideration. Until you vote libertarian you'll be continuing the slide into slavery.
There's no need for a petition, because the government and industry already knows what the people want.
At any rate, it has already been stated previously that bribing politicians is not against the law in the United States. It's all in the open. It's a part of the capitalism that great corporations are built upon.
Socialism for the common man is antithetical to the fundamentalist protestant individualism of America. Corporate socialism however, is good for the country. The corporation represents God in a financial sense of the idea. If you loose faith in corporate America (record companies and the movie studios), then we are committing a blasphemy, an Apostasy against everything that America stands for: the Right of the corporation, as a legal person, to guide us into salvation.
Would you rather have school children paying for songs through iTunes, or have the economy collapse to the point were the average child has to carry a hammer and sickle to school to toil the fields (because the economy has collapsed do to piracy)?
It is a choice between communism and capitalism, between Jesus and Stalin. You need to ask yourself what type of America you want to live in.
And don't forget, in November, vote for a successful capitalist and a Christian that has always fought to preserve family values: vote for Newt Gingrich (and not for the "food stamp president").
For I have spotted what appears to be a disk, a black flap, and a scorpion while scrutinizing this first post.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/petition/actually-take-these-petitions-seriously-instead-just-using-them-excuse-pretend-you-are-listening/grQ9mNkN
Why not? The Pepsi I mix it with tastes flat otherwise.
[ducks]