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Petition to Send the National Guard into New York City and elsewhere
  • PoorRichard October 2011 +1 -1
    Sign Here at WhiteHouse.gov http://wh.gov/2XZ

    Please sign this and repost everywhere. National Guard involvement probably wouldn't be without negative incident, but I think the symbolic gesture of using the Guard to defend the people and our civil liberties against other elements of the government would be positive. The embarrassment to the NYC and NYPD authorities would be priceless.

    We petition the Obama Administration to:

    Send the National Guard into New York City and elsewhere to protect the right of We the People peaceably to assemble.

    The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are being beaten, bloodied, pepper-sprayed, photographed, arrested, finger-printed and harassed by police and by counterintelligence agents.

    The First Amendment guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The kinds of harassment and counterintelligence mentioned above abridge that right.

    Local restrictions on assembly intended to keep good order in normal times should also be suspended in this instance.

    Therefore, we petition our government to send the National Guard into New York City and anywhere else where police, agents of government, or thugs may abuse and abridge the civil rights of Occupy Wall Street and affiliated demonstrators.

    Created: Oct 09, 2011
    Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties, Human Rights

    Signatures needed by November 08, 2011 to reach goal of 25,000: 24,999

    Sign Here at WhiteHouse.gov http://wh.gov/2XZ
  • %5BDeleted+User%5D[Deleted User] October 2011 +1 -1
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  • johniewaddelljohniewaddell October 2011 +1 -1
    just remember that in one swoop of the pen that armed force turns on you
  • PoorRichard October 2011 +1 -1
    The Guard was used off federal property in the civil rights movement.

    But the petition was just a gesture--a way of sending a message to the WH. I don't think the OWS peeps would really want the guard around.
  • TheSheepLookUp October 2011 +1 -1
    http://wh.gov/2TT Tell President Obama to enforce the right of the people to peaceably assemble. The federal government has many options for doing this short of calling out the national guard. Personally I would like to see some local politicians arrested for violating the citizens civil rights.
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