Posted on 11/15/2012 7:33:33 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty
Don't Sign a Petition Email
With permission, I post this email circulated in a private company:
All, As some of you may have heard since the Presidential election there are currently 32 states that have a petition to Secede from the United States. There may be some of you who are considering signing the petitions but we FSO’s need to remind you that Allegiance to the United States is one of the 13 adjudicative guidelines that DISCO uses to grant you a security clearance and give you access to classified information. For that reason, we strongly suggest you do not sign any of these petitions or align yourself with any group that would place your allegiance to the country in question.
It is the belief of the Defense Security Service that signing the petition is a reportable event. However, we are waiting for a confirmation from local security representatives. In the meantime, please send me or your FSO notice if you have already signed the petition. Failure to report the action could possibly result in an issue with your eligibility when your reinvestigation for renewal becomes due.
I believe that distinction is lost on almost all of us.
Although,I get your point.
They have no sway or command over your personal time and business. If you don't sign it at work, on a company computer/server/whatever, then they have zero right to tell you to report yourself. What right to do they think they have to supress lawful activities of employees off the clock?
Screw them.
I agree, and I don’t see the big damn deal anyway. Everyone knows that these are not OFFICIAL petitions. These things are not legally significant. Aren’t they just written up by anybody who feels like it?
I saw one that must have been removed (it was in a list) and it was just a horrible babble of racist rant and nonsense “words” strung together, all in caps.
I view this stuff as an electronic “suggestion box”, meant to be purely symbolic. No one that signs thinks these are REAL and will produce real results.
Every body has their panties in a big wad over nothin’.
Now, if there were a REAL petition to separate NYC from the state of New York......millions would sign on to that in no time flat.
You get it. I get it. We can educate the rest as time allows...
FReegards
Screw them is right. Sign the petitions. Sign early and sign often.
Exactly. But... We have to start somewhere. May as well be here. Costs nothing and is already paying off. Look how many people across the Nation are talking about it...
“If you don’t already have a target on your back, you aren’t paying attention.”
Listen, if the commies start purges, they aren’t going to liquidate or re-educate half the country. They’ll do as they always do, target the leaders and the most stubborn malcontents first, and cow the rest into submission by that example. So, voting Republican or owning guns may put you on one list, but signing something like this puts you on a whole different kind of list. There’s no strategic benefit to be gained from that action.
If we were ready for open war, like the founders were when they signed the Declaration, it would be a different story, but we’re not. We’re sitting ducks, waiting for the midnight knocks on the door. You’re just making sure that they knock on your door early.
“And you are worried about the names our political enemies might call us?”
You’re the one who asserted that the petition was sending a message, like that was accomplishing something. I was just clarifying what that message was that you are sending.
I bet you that that petition was started by libs to trip "known and prominent" Conservatives in signing it!
BTTT with the RATs in charge for another four years, why take the chance?
The bleat of a coward...
I was just clarifying what that message was that you are sending.
No. You were trying to assuage that little voice in the back of your head that is telling you it's safer to be a mouse than a man. When the lion comes, it'll eat the man first before it ever gets hungry for mouse-meat...
Nabber ~:” The Defense Security Service only asks the question as to whether you have ever plotted the VIOLENT overthrow of the U.S. Government.
If you have plotted the non-violent overthrow, i.e., by peaceful political means (kind of like the current administration), that is permitted. “
Thank you for the clarification.
I wonder if the same test would be administered to the “Occupy” movement , its supporters , unions , and companies who encuraged the Occupy movement ?
I’ll be signing the one for Texas as will be encouraging everyone I know to sign theirs.
Petitioning to leave the country is not the same as petitioning for a redress of grievances.
If a liberal was looking to revoke their own citizenship, there wouldn’t be a single person here at FR who would argue that this would show allegiance to the country.
“The bleat of a coward...”
Hey, I’m not the one calling people foul names from behind the safety of my computer screen.
“No. You were trying to...”
Don’t tell me what I was trying to do. You’re not a mind reader, and such speculations are not welcome on FR.
You signed a petition that called for your state to secede from the United States?
You asked to be removed as a United States Citizen?
And you think that would make no difference in a process where your loyalty to the United States was being assessed?
You have every right to ask to have your citizenship revoked, which is what secession is, a group revocation of citizenship.
But actions have consequences, and asking to be treated as a foreigner might well cause you to be treated as if that is what you wanted.
If you actually want to renounce your citizenship, don’t be surprised if people take you seriously.
If you actually DON’T want to renounce your citizenship, and instead are trying to “send a message”, I suggest you find a way to do so that doesn’t call your loyalty to the country into question.
My guess is you don’t want to secede, you want to fix the country. But if so, don’t sign a petition saying you want to quit.
You say that as if it is of necessity a good thing.
I don't see how having America talking about how the conservatives all want to quit the country and make their own is helpful to the conservative cause.
Of course, if your goal IS to divide the nation and create smaller nation-states, then I guess having people talk about that is a good thing.
If your goal was to possibly save the country from the left, by winning elections, people talking about this will do nothing good.
Most people I hear talking about this, outside the echo chamber, are laughing about it, just like we always laughed at leftists talking about moving to another country.
If you think the election was a fraud, sign a petition calling for a nationwide investigation of voter fraud.
If you think Obamacare is the death of our society, sign a petition calling for it's repeal.
Yes. Actually, you are. I put my REAL name on a REAL petition. You would rather just hide...
You’re not a mind reader, and such speculations are not welcome on FR.
No. I'm not. I have only the substance of your statements to work with. And those sentiments clearly express cowardice...
As for what is welcome here, it's Jim's place... Not yours.
Some holier-than-thou writer over at the Breitbart site wrote an “article” saying that good people should mock and shame anyone who signs.
He said, “These people are not only cowards for giving up the fight; they also get in the way of the fight, because the media uses them to constantly put us on defense and define who we are.
Let the secessionists leave the Republican Party, or whatever the threat is this time. We have to immediately mock and marginalize these people, not coddle lunacy and sympathize with stupid. At least if they can’t be associated with the conservative movement, they’re somebody else’s problem.”
This pompous ass sez, “the media uses them to constantly put us on defense and define who we are.” THEN goes on to say, “ We have to immediately mock and marginalize these people, not coddle lunacy and sympathize with stupid.”
—Wait, so the communist main media will mock people who are making a peaceful statement - which is bad optics for our “side”, so lets us rush in there first and mock them so the communist lefties don’t pick on us or define us negatively.—
Let me know how that fricken works out.
Breitbarts Bigs is a sad joke nowadays. This guy is so worried about the lefties good opinion that he pisses himself.
No such things as "bad" press. Think I'm wrong? What was Clinton's approval rating in his second term after Impeachment?
Of course, if your goal IS to divide the nation and create smaller nation-states, then I guess having people talk about that is a good thing.
The goal is as it has always been, preserve freedom and our Rights as men. If our current government isn't up to that task, or is outright hostile to those Rights, then why should we sign on for National suicide?
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