No death star for US ;)

[flaith]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/respon ... re-looking

[Inf0Byt3]

The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

Best reason ever. Why destroy other planets when we can blow up our own. Much cheaper .

[idle]

[Zach]

Trying to reduce the deficit? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[American Ninja]

Ridiculous and immature that people even wastes the govt's time with such childish and absurb propositions.

[kenmo]

If you read a random selection of other petitions, you'll see the government wasting the people's time with childish and absurd responses

[BorisTheOld]

The US government is required by law to respond, but I don't believe the law has anything to say about the language used.

There's still hope for the USA if its goverment has the guts to make fun of those citizens who have only one oar in the water.

[DarkDragon]

I haven't thought this topic would be about star wars death stars when reading the caption. I thought it would be an award for killing people and buying weapons.

[SFSxOI]

The US government is required by law to respond, but I don't believe the law has anything to say about the language used.

There's still hope for the USA if its goverment has the guts to make fun of those citizens who have only one oar in the water.

Actually, the goverment is not required by law to respond to the petitions on the web site. The web site petition submission is not an official submission to the U.S. Government and is a submission to basically President Obama for a response from him or his administration. Most of the petitions there are personal or special interest in nature or small or fringe type special interest and not actual greivance. I find it amazing that goverment employees are spending time trying to tailor responses to the personal or special interest in nature or small or fringe type special interest in an effort to make them seem foolish publically. I expect my goverment to be doing things like, you know, governing and not trying to intentonally make fun of or ridicule its citizens including the more fringe elements. Granted, some of the petitions are ridiculous, but our government should not be making fun of, or ridiculing, its people because after all the constitution says "We the people..." and not "We the government.." so those government employees taking time to make fun of, or ridicule, those fringe element or ridiculous petitions, no matter what they think personally of them (which they display in their responses) are acting improperly. This is what you get when you have a president who thinks that entitlement is a right that can be freely supplemented at will by hubris and self interest, these ridiculing responses not only cheapen the value of having the government respond but also degenerate the usage of such value into the background noise and clutter.

The response to these web site petitions is not mandated by law, its a "promise" from Obama not a law and the responses are based upon a limit set by Obama (his administration people). When Obama took office in his first term he directed the set up of the "We the People" petition site and promised a White House response to any petition submitted on the web site that received 5000 signatures. The only petitions the government is required to officially take action on are those which address genuine actionable greivance which are properly submitted per law (the web site does not satisfy the requirements for petition submission under law). The White House got inundated with these frivilous web site petitions so the signature limit was raised to 25,000 signatures needed before the White House would respond. However, use of the petition site grew with frivilous petitions, so as of yesterday the limit for signatures will be getting raised soon to 100,000 signatures needed within 30 days of the petition being submitted before the White House will respond. Its important to note though, and its not noted on the web site, but any serious official petition with a genuine actionable greivance is required by law to be submitted in writing (in actual hard copy print) with actual original hand written verifible signatures before official government action can be taken so the web site is basically useless other than to bitch about something to Obama. The web site sounds like a good idea in theory and Obama took advantage of that to make people think they were really doing something by petitioning at the web site, like so many of Obamas promises and plans and programs its basically ineffective to really do anything and is just something to satisfy and provide an agnst outlet. The petition website is basically twitter for those who like to bitch about something to the White House and think they are really doing something, like twitter its useless for other than just gripping about something or saying something no one really pays attention to in the end.