In a story posted yesterday at the New York Times, the writer points out that six of the sixty four petition issues at the White House “We the People page” is focused on legalizing Pot and that a total of 77,000 signed for this issue between all six petitions.
Nothing wrong if Pot was the only focus of the piece, but the report points out the following:
“A petition to stop animal homelessness has passed the 5,000-signature threshold and has 7,726 supporters… More than 8,000 people want to dissolve the electoral college… The protectors of shark fins have a little work to do. Only 2,136 people have so far petitioned for a ban on the sale, trade and possession of the fins… Haters of former President George W. Bush are having little luck with their petition to investigate him for war crimes. Only 318 have signed so far… But there are apparently plenty of people who don’t like waiting in lines at the airport. At least 21,124 people have signed a petition to abolish the Transportation Security Administration.”
The Rubashkin Petition that has 19,000 signatories and is the third most-signed off all issues is not mentioned in the report. One can argue that all those issues are monkey stuff and as such they made it to the report, but Rubashkin is too serious of an issue to be placed into the same report. OK, fair enough. But if the Times editors agree that this is no laughing matter, they should look into it and get to the bottom of the accusations leveled against the Government.
Last week, when Rubashkin was the second most-signed issue, The Hill publication, widely read in national political circles, also made no mention of the Rubashkin issue.
Yossi Gestetner is a New York-Based Writer and Marketing Consultant in the Orthodox Jewish/Hasidic Communities. His Firm “Gestetner & Co” Serves Political, Charitable and Corporate accounts. Yossi can be reached via [email protected]
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Quite frankly, were they to mention Rubashkin with this other nonsense you would have complained that they associate the severity of Rubashkin with other minor shtusim. So which ever way you slice it, you would have had an issue with the NYT
Well all other issues are for all nonjews. which goy should be intrested in a jew thats serving life in prison?.
I think that anyone in the world would find it quite interesting, at a minimum, that some person sitting in jail, managed to get 19,000 signatures in favor of him.We are reminded unfortunately time and time again, that we “are” in galus, even with all the freedom and connections that we have. (The question of course is, why is the NYT always the shliach to deliver this message to us???)
Actually, the whole effort to garner the signatures is admirable but may be a waste. I’m no defender of the NYT, but they’re probably just working off a White House press release, and the WH may not be paying attention to this petition. The point of the website is to petition the government to cosider general issues, not specific individual cases. That’s probably why they aren’t even paying attention to the 19,000 signatures. That’s also why there’s no petition to ask for clemency for Jonathan Pollard. I suppose if there was a petition to review the procedures of examining bias in court assignments, or to review sentencing procedures, or how certain investigations are created, conducted, etc. that might fit the description. Unfortunately (even though I myself signed and asked everyone I know to sign) I don’t think the petition will really get anywhere.
it would have fit in perfectly. Pot is illegal and so is everything rubashkin did