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We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000
New submitter schneidafunk writes with news that the White House is raising the signature requirement for petitions from 25,000 to 100,000. From the source: "When we first raised the threshold — from 5,000 to 25,000 — we called it '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. ... 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."
Crap, broken link. This one should work.
Check your facts, the USA is a democratic republic . It is not a pure, mob rule democracy. And that is a good thing.
In a democracy
This isn't a democracy - it's a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation. Worlds of difference.
While I might not agree with the Death Star petition, nor the Sharia for USA petition, it doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the chance to put anything to their fellow citizens and have the White House consider them without raising the threshold to un-democratically restrictive levels.
Caveat - I completely agree.
However, you don't need democracy for that - the Constitution guarantees your right, as an individual, to petition the government for redress of grievances. Group participation is not a requirement.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Especially the one about the TSA. They didn't even try to make it seem as if they actually care in that case.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!