Please sign this petition and condemn soft approach to fire-fighters' strike

Petition Online ^ | 13 November 2002 | Peter Cuthbertson

[Tomalak]

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To:  British Government

As the fire-fighters' strike begins, we condemn this Labour governments' decision to prevent the army from using the best fire-fighting equipment to save lives. Green Goddesses have a maximum speed of just 50 miles per hour and cannot be relied on to protect the safety of the public. We believe that a responsible government would allow the army to use modern fire engines during these strikes, rather than put the sanctity of the picket line before the safety of the public.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

[Tomalak]

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[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Good heavans! A fire fighters' strike? Is it still illegal to put cooking oil in diesel tanks out there? I just don't know what to say. Sad FReegards from Virginia.

[newgeezer]

Why should we think this or any petitiononline.com petition will get be delivered to anyone who can do anything about the cause du jour? How do we know it's not just a method of providing email addresses to spammers -- consentually or not (I see they've already reacted to the SirCam virus ;-) -- or, nothing more than your own method of advertising your Web site?

Nothing personal, mind you; I tend to greet all such online "causes" with a double dose of skepticism.

[Tomalak]

Email addresses are not made public when you sign the petition (and you could always enter "@" if you wanted). If I wanted to "advertise" my site, I could just post any article I found online. Why bother setting up a full petition?