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White House Pulls Down TSA Petition

Posted by timothy on from the change-your-hope dept.

Jeremiah Cornelius writes with a note that on Thursday of this week "The Electronic Privacy Information Center posted a brief and detailed notice about the removal of a petition regarding security screenings by the TSA at US airports and other locations. 'At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House 'We the People' website. About 22,500 of the 25,000 signatures necessary for a response from the Administration were obtained when the White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition. The site also went down for 'maintenance' following an article in Wired that sought support for the campaign."

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  1. The People Have a Voice! by ZosX · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh wait.....

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  2. Re:no big conspiracy...just normal maintenance by guttentag · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here is the reddit thread.

    Are you allowed to do that here?

    Absolutely not. All content posted on Slashdot must be entirely the original work of the poster, unless the linked content is unimportant, not insightful, related to business intelligence or involves videos of remote-control flying taxidermied cats. I would link to the relevant regulations, but then I'd be in violation.

  3. Re:Not much info by Hatta · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know. Why can't we ever get people to flip the fuck out over the right shit? There's plenty of smart shit to flip the fuck out over.

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  4. Re:Two can play at this game by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.

    In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

    -- Harry Lime

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  5. Obligatory by cultiv8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A remote-control flying taxidermied cat

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  6. Re:Two can play at this game by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 4, Funny

    500 years of democracy and peace.

    All right, all right - But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?!

    Brought peace!

    Oh SHUT UP!