Ha. Well, the only thing they had correct was that "they" were "doing something". It's the cream of the crop in activism, when something important happens that's going to affect millions of lives, just "go do something". Anything. Something. Doesn't matter what it is. Something. One person told me "then you go write a better one and we'll vote on that too". It really makes me worry what would happen with crowds like that if something happened outside of the confines of their computer screens and how they'd behave that way during, oh, an actual natural disaster or something of the sort. Eek.
Another really great comment was that it didn't matter because it would "force a response" just like with the funny Death Star petition that the WH had to respond to. Uh, yes, but that was satire and in no way serious, so you get a response in kind. OK, great, everyone had some fun. What response would they expect out of this thing? If I were in charge or that response it would be a chapter on civics and a bunch of links to free resources where they could read up on how the government branches work. But if that's all they're after we can provide that response without having the WH involved.
What I worry about more than the person who wrote that "petition" is the people who voted on it. I wonder how many actually read it. And the ones that did and still voted, how they could even think it made sense.
