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The petition is not evidence of the public being against what the administration is doing, as it only represents the people who want Edward Snowden pardoned, no
by joe_hoyle 13y ago
The petition is not evidence of the public being against what the administration is doing, as it only represents the people who want Edward Snowden pardoned, not the "opposite" view, if such a view exists.
- kdkdkdkdkdkdk 13y agoGo 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.
- moderators 13y agoThere is no need to petition for the inevitable.
- rantanplan 13y agoWell what if... obama's signature counts as 100,000 signatures? :P
- SCAQTony 13y agoThe NSA, CIA and FBI would game that petition. I think the phrase is "Manufactured Consent."
- XorNot 13y agoAnd people who've already written their own narrative wouldn't care if it was real.
- nano111 13y agothe government might use their database skills to fix that...
- rantanplan 13y ago@SCAQTony Also the title of the ever more relevant mr. Noam Chomsky's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
- mpyne 13y agoThat doesn't need a petition though, it's already the default position of the government.
- jedberg 13y agoA majority of Americans feel that he is guilty of treason: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/17/cnn-poll-majority-give-snowden-thumbs-down/ http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/17/cnn-poll-maj...