As you may have learned from news reports, some secessionist petitions posted at whitehouse.gov have passed the 25,000 signature mark in less than 30 days, which is the criterion that's supposed to trigger a response to the petition by the White House.
But the rightwing crazies aren't the only ones petitioning the White House post election. We on the left are doing it, too, and based on real policy issues, not never-gonna-happen rightwing fantasies.
Posted just today (11/12/2012) was this petition regarding the federal response to marijuana legalization in the states, and already (at the time of this writing) its at 21,296 signatures, just 3,704 signatures short of reaching the "response" threshold.
I thought you guys here might want to know about it so that if you haven't signed yet, you can help push it over the top. The secessionists were yesterday's news. We can make this tomorrow's, and make it about real issues that actually matter, rather than civil war nostalgia.
The text of the petition, in full:
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Support a law protecting states' rights to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol.
Citizens in Colorado and Washington overwhelmingly voted to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in similar fashion as the more hazardous substance, alcohol, is already legalized, regulated and taxed. We request the president support a federal law requiring the federal government to protect - rather than undermine or overturn - these state laws and similar laws that other states pass in the future. Specifically, we request the president to support a pending congressional proposal that would amend the federal pre-emption section of the Controlled Substances Act (section 903) to exempt from the act any state provisions "relating to marijuana."