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And don't forget stupid.


>>you can bet these people are still 4 steps ahead, planning and plotting their next move.

Who? The government? That is like believing that super advanced weapons have been developed by the government that no other scientist/engineers could hope to replicate because the Science and technology are so ahead of their time (i.e. 50 or 100 years).


Clearly you are a sock puppet account.


>> It also would’ve blocked registrations of new vehicles bought out of state.

Doesn't this sound insane to anybody? With that kind of a clause in the law all credibility is lost for whomever is sponsoring this bill.


Which is not a bad thing. We increase it to a couple of million and it might as well be noise.


Go ahead and create another petition that asks for Edward Snowden not to be pardoned and to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and I bet that it hardly gets any signatures.

Edit: This is a response to several of the replies. I'm assuming of course that nobody within the government would game the petition system. If we've gotten to the point were they would impersonate people in a petition to the white house then I guess we are pretty much doomed.


@SCAQTony Also the title of the ever more relevant mr. Noam Chomsky's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...


A majority of Americans feel that he is guilty of treason:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/17/cnn-poll-maj...


The NSA, CIA and FBI would game that petition. I think the phrase is "Manufactured Consent."


And people who've already written their own narrative wouldn't care if it was real.


That doesn't need a petition though, it's already the default position of the government.


Well what if... obama's signature counts as 100,000 signatures? :P


the government might use their database skills to fix that...


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