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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
White House Forced to Confront State Petitions to Secede? (Updated)
Joe Wright
Activist Post
The White House website has
been bombarded with petitions that have mushroomed to 34 states moving
to secede. The first petition came in from Louisiana the day after
Obama's re-election, and since then a chorus of others have issued their
grievances.
Now, under White House rules stated in its "We the People" program, if
25,000 people sign on by December 7th, a response must be issued. Just a
few days after submitting, that number has been reached by the
petitions from Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia -- with Texas closing in on
90,000.
Here is the current list of state totals:
Will the White House respond, or ignore the will of the people as it
routinely does on the issues that matter most? One Florida resident is
making national news; former Navy serviceman, Philip Hoezel, who turned his flag upside down in protest on Veterans Day.
While his neighbors berated him for the blasphemy, and for "hurting a
lot of people's feelings;" as a Navy man he would know that the
traditional significance of the upside-down flag is to indicate a ship
in its final moments of severe distress before it sinks -- a ship of
state, for instance. It is a form of peaceful protest that is increasing in numbers and is a statement as symbolic as these petitions.
Read other articles by Joe Wright Here
Thanks to: http://www.activistpost.com
White House Forced to Confront State Petitions to Secede? (Updated)
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Activist Post
The White House website has
been bombarded with petitions that have mushroomed to 34 states moving
to secede. The first petition came in from Louisiana the day after
Obama's re-election, and since then a chorus of others have issued their
grievances.
Now, under White House rules stated in its "We the People" program, if
25,000 people sign on by December 7th, a response must be issued. Just a
few days after submitting, that number has been reached by the
petitions from Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia -- with Texas closing in on
90,000.
Here is the current list of state totals:
- Alaska (5,306)
- Alabama (24,721)
- Arizona (16,016)
- Arkansas (17,667)
- California (8,772)
- Colorado (16,879)
- Delaware (5,896)
- Florida (21,129)
- Georgia (25,578)
- Indiana (15,807)
- Kansas (5,396)
- Kentucky (14,596)
- Louisiana (31.544)
- Michigan (15,241)
- Mississippi (14,432)
- Missouri (15,036)
- Montana (10,856)
- Nebraska (4,469)
- Nevada (7,677)
- New Jersey (11,299)
- New York (6,110)
- North Carolina (23,715)
- North Dakota (9,626)
- Ohio (5,187)
- Oklahoma 6,559)
- Oregon (11,819)
- Pennsylvania (5,499)
- South Carolina (18,416)
- South Dakota (4,046)
- Tennessee (24,270)
- Texas (88,913)
- Utah (3,844)
- West Virginia (4,660)
- Wyoming (6,225)
Will the White House respond, or ignore the will of the people as it
routinely does on the issues that matter most? One Florida resident is
making national news; former Navy serviceman, Philip Hoezel, who turned his flag upside down in protest on Veterans Day.
While his neighbors berated him for the blasphemy, and for "hurting a
lot of people's feelings;" as a Navy man he would know that the
traditional significance of the upside-down flag is to indicate a ship
in its final moments of severe distress before it sinks -- a ship of
state, for instance. It is a form of peaceful protest that is increasing in numbers and is a statement as symbolic as these petitions.
Read other articles by Joe Wright Here
Thanks to: http://www.activistpost.com
