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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by joe_hoyle on Saturday June 22, 2013 @10:32AM (#5923689)
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.
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by kdkdkdkdkdkdk on Saturday June 22, 2013 @10:54AM (#5923777)
Go 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.

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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by jedberg on Saturday June 22, 2013 @01:49PM (#5924493)
A majority of Americans feel that he is guilty of treason:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/17/cnn-poll-maj...

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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by rantanplan on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:11AM (#5923844)
@SCAQTony Also the title of the ever more relevant mr. Noam Chomsky's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by SCAQTony on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:06AM (#5923832)
The NSA, CIA and FBI would game that petition. I think the phrase is "Manufactured Consent."
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by XorNot on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:16AM (#5923860)
And people who've already written their own narrative wouldn't care if it was real.
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by mpyne on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:58AM (#5924038)
That doesn't need a petition though, it's already the default position of the government.
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by rantanplan on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:05AM (#5923825)
Well what if... obama's signature counts as 100,000 signatures? :P
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Re:Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures by nano111 on Saturday June 22, 2013 @11:10AM (#5923839)
the government might use their database skills to fix that...
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