[Ariadna: Every time I see an online petition for a good cause addressed to “your Congress representative” or to the White House I have no problem suppressing the urge to sign it because I never have the temptation to do it. Instead I feel the urge to visit every single signatory, grab him by the shoulders and shake him hard, hoping to cause the delusion responsible for signing the petition to dislodge and fall down into the muddy detritus at the bottom of his brain.
It is not likely that every single signatory is a deliberate deceiver trying to distract our attention and/or exhaust us in meaningless gestures based on the absurd notion that the US is even a simulacrum of participatory democracy. Some are. Most of them, however, must be just unable to fully comprehend the world in which they live. Was there ever a war stopped by petition? Was Netanyahu arrested upon arrival in London as a result of the petition signed by more than 100,000 Brits demanding his arrest as a war criminal?
The only nugatory consolation I am able to muster is the hope that maybe, just maybe, the facts stated in the petition may give those freshly arrived from Mars the idea that USrael’s drive to effect”regime change” in Syria is wrong.]
Petition website URLs Short URL: http://wh.gov/iUyF0
Save and Share this URL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/end-illegal-and-immoral-regime-change-operation-syria
For the facts surrounding the illegal and unauthorized nature of this ongoing regime change operation in Syria, please consult this article written earlier this morning. We have no business in Syria. We have not been asked to assist the Syrian people’s fight against the terrorists that are attempting to destabilize their country. Now that Russia is involved, the risk of an accidental military confrontation far outweighs any geopolitical goals envisioned by the CIA in their nation building efforts in the region. We must, for the sake of the Syrian people, others in the region and the for the sake of US military personnel who could be drawn into a larger conflict with Russia, withdraw all of our conventional and non-conventional military personnel and assets immediately.
I admit to signing petitions (including the American ones I get ) in the vain hope that they will maybe achieve something good many are local help for injustice and others like the one here petitioning the government in the hope they will listen . I do though get the uneasy feeling (intuition ) that some are just a sop to giving you an outlet for your anger against the way the country/world is being run. Maybe I still after all these years have some faith in human nature and that could be classed as delusion-able especially when I look at the figures on the link provided 27 signed it in the US even a local one in the UK gets many 1000,s of signatures so maybe there are still some prepared to at least acknowledge something isnt right in this world .
I feel the same way, Duncan. The last petition I signed was one to prevent Ariel Sharon from coming to the US.
Nice illustration–thanks, editors. This one is good too, the Danaides of Greek mythology, forever trying to fill a bottomless vessel:
I admit to signing petitions (including the American ones I get ) in the vain hope that they will maybe achieve something good many are local help for injustice and others like the one here petitioning the government in the hope they will listen . I do though get the uneasy feeling (intuition ) that some are just a sop to giving you an outlet for your anger against the way the country/world is being run. Maybe I still after all these years have some faith in human nature and that could be classed as delusion-able especially when I look at the figures on the link provided 27 signed it in the US even a local one in the UK gets many 1000,s of signatures so maybe there are still some prepared to at least acknowledge something isnt right in this world .
I feel the same way, Duncan. The last petition I signed was one to prevent Ariel Sharon from coming to the US.
Nice illustration–thanks, editors. This one is good too, the Danaides of Greek mythology, forever trying to fill a bottomless vessel:
http://www.wateryfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Danaides-John-Singer-Sargent.jpg