Petition to pardon Snowden

[johnaa]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

I afra!d that if I s!gn it , the G3s+apo will collec+ the namez for later pick-up for ex+erm!na+ion c@mps.

[Craig's Brother]

This is weird, I went to this URL to sign the petition and it says...

You've already signed this petition

Thank you for participating. Find other petitions you're interested in or start your own.

I have NOT already signed this petition!

I must have been pre-selected for a trip to the death camps. 

[Craig's Brother]

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@Craig's Brother wrote:

This is weird, I went to this URL to sign the petition and it says...

You've already signed this petition

Thank you for participating. Find other petitions you're interested in or start your own.

I have NOT already signed this petition!

I must have been pre-selected for a trip to the death camps. 

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As a follow-up, I cleared my cookies and returned to the site -- same response.  I then cleared my cookies again and changed my proxy settings on my browser to use a private proxy server in Boston -- that time (with a Boston IP address) I was given an opportunity to sign the petition.  Apparently my IP address was pre-added as a signer of that petition by someone other than myself.  For those with well lubricated paranoia wheels, this would be a real wheel tweaker.    So what does this mean I wonder?  What can we expect to come of this?  I wish I could search their database and see what information was entered under the entry associated with my IP address.

[johnaa]

  Maybe I screwed up and sent the wrong link? 

[Craig's Brother]

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@johnaa wrote:

  Maybe I screwed up and sent the wrong link? 

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Early Saturday, a petition posted to Whitehouse.gov asking the president to pardon Edward Snowden reached 100,000 signatures, the threshold at which the administration-run website has agreed to respond to petitioners’ demands.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/22/as-nsa-leaker-snowden-is-charged-as-a-spy-petit...

Your link:       https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD
Forbes link:  https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

The forbes article is particularly important, as it points out that "The Obama Administration has been especially strict when it comes to those who allegedly violate secret clearances" regarding the number of prosecutions under the Espionage Act and that the Obama Justice Department has indicted "more than all other presidents in history combined."

The Obama administration has indicted more whistleblowers than all other presidents in history combined!

And to think, the liberals (who are generally soft on whistleblowers -- who themselves make up the majority of whistleblowers) are somehow okay with this.

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

The |ef+'s quest for +otal con+rol and power trumps everything else. All for the fasc!s+ s+ate. Everything else is small matters.

[bruce MN]

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/greenwald-snowden-charges-show-obamas-vindictive-mentali...

SNIP:

“I think it’s very surprising to accuse somebody of espionage who hasn’t worked for a foreign government, who didn’t covertly pass information to an adversary-enemy of the United States, who didn’t sell any top secret information, who simply went to newspapers, asked newspapers to very carefully vet the information to make sure that the only thing  being published are things that inform his fellow citizens but doesn’t harm national security," Greenwald said in a phone interview. "That is not espionage in any real sense of the word.”

[Craig's Brother]

It is worth realizing that this petition will be ignored, the same as these.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-americ...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/texas-secession-petition-ignored-by-white-house/

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-british-citizen-piers-morgan-attacking-2nd-amendmen...

http://www.infowars.com/white-house-set-to-ignore-piers-morgan-petition/

To demonstrate just what kind of "President" we have here, check this out.  A petition that did NOT garner the required number of signatures to warrant a response, received a response anyway!  Unsurprisingly, this petition was to DELETE from our Bill of Rights, rather than to strengthen it!  The response includes a rare video from the "President".

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/message-president-obama-about-your-petition-reducing-gun-v...

Here's one to enhance spying on Americans, it received a little over two thousand votes (just 2.2960% of the threshold) and IT unjustifiably received a response.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/digitizing-federal-public-records

As we have all clearly witnessed, the Whitehouse cherry picks only those petitions, regardless of their own threshold rules, with which to respond.

[Craig's Brother]

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@Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^) wrote:
The |ef+'s quest for +otal con+rol and power trumps everything else. All for the fasc!s+ s+ate. Everything else is small matters.

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Please stop writing like that.  I get that you are opposed to PRISM, we all are, even the liberals here -- but as a programmer, I know that it is quite simple to write an algorithm which punches right through this kind of subterfuge and index everything you say, anyway.  If you really want to avoid relational indexing -- post as John Doe or some such, while using an anonymous proxy server for your connectivity.