Posted by Ben @ July 14th, 2010 8:58 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Batshit Mental Rants,Clearly You've Thought This Through,Don't Worry About What THEY Want,Duplicate Petitions,Hanging's Too Good For 'Em!,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,Sexism,Stand Back! I'm Going To Try SCIENCE!,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,Unreasonable Demands,What A Dick,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?,You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: AndyCC, ngreer —
Abortion. Touchy subject. Touchy enough for at least two petitions on YourFreedom.
Someone decides to have sex, they should live with the concequences. Abortion should be banned for all social economic reasons.Life is a sacred thing, whether you believe it is from God or not, people these days think that you just pop-out of the womb on the day you are born, but it starts before that within the womb.
If people disagree with banning Abortion for social economic reasons, could they please explain why it is differnt to killing a 5 year old because they are not an Adult yet?
Abortion is just legalised mass murder, wrapped up to make everyone feel good about it.
Why the contribution is important
Why should an innocent unborn child be murdered simply because of a “bad” choice to have sex?Why should the taxpayer pay for this? And for the clumsy decisions of others not to use protection?
Why the contribution is important
The right to life is a fundamental human right. The unborn are human. At the moment of conception they become, by any reasonable definition, human. They are genetically members of the species homo sapiens, and between that moment and birth, there is no clear dividing line when a change occurs. If there is no clear dividing line, then no change occurs (if it is illegal to kill at some precise moment and not before, that must be because a significant change occurs at that moment).It follows that to kill the unborn is murder, and the clear denial of that unborn child’s right to life. We will not execute murderers and rapists because of this principle, but we will inflict a particularly brutal killing on defenceless, innocent children. This is unnacceptable in any society that aspires to be civilised.
let’s ignore all of the bollocks pseudo-science and half-arsed presumptions in these petitions and jump to the crux of the matter: making abortion illegal.
What about where protection is used? What about rape? What about incest rape? What about instances where the baby won’t survive childbirth? What about instances where the mother won’t survive childbirth? What about where the baby will be born without a brain? Or, rather simply, what if the woman simply isn’t ready to be a mother? It’s her body, her choice, and she shouldn’t be forced into motherhood against her will, be it because she was attacked in the park or because she just doesn’t want to have kids.
Even taking all of these variables out of the picture, making abortion illegal isn’t going to help. The women that want abortions are still going to find ways of getting them, being it going abroad to somewhere else in Europe where it’s still legal. Or, if that’s not an option, they’ll seek out a “back alley abortion” where statistics show they will, in fact, wind up dead.
So, long story short, it seems AndyCC and ngreer hate women, they don’t think a woman is entitled to ownership of her own uterus.
Posted by Ben @ April 22nd, 2010 3:05 am. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,Rejected Petitions,spelin an grammer,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British,Unintentional Irony,What Have Other People Ever Done For Me? — Tags: sandra john —
by sandra john (rejected)spend the money in britain and lower taxes thus increasing our stanard of living and helping the economy.
Why don’t people in the UK get foreign aid, eh Gordon? It’s discrimination is what it is.
Posted by Andrew @ April 10th, 2010 1:30 am. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,I Must Be Of Something,I Petition The Government To Your Name Here,Rejected Petitions,We The Undersigned Just Lost The Game. — Tags: Carl Roger Borresen of Nil, deanne, Mr John Smith, Mr Temptus Timus, Phillip Layton —
It’s getting to the point where I’m hoping these are serious because that they are separate attempts at humour is almost more depressing:
by Mr. Temptus Timus (rejected)As many of you know, there is a game circulating around the world that can only be stopped if the prime minister goes on live TV and announces the end of the game.
All this is asking is for the Prime Minister to go on TV and say the short phrase "The game is up"
It’s almost word-for-word identical to Philip Ford’s version, and I for one suspect that Timus is Ford, simply because nobody is called Mr. Temptus Timus.
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Posted by Ben @ March 21st, 2010 8:52 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Duplicate Petitions,Rejected Petitions,Solve My Imaginary Problems!,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?,Work Around My Delusions Dammit!,You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: Mrs Rachel Hutchinson —
by Mrs Rachel Hutchinson (rejected)We are against the sale of Ouija Boards as toys for children. We believe that they are a stepping stone to the occult for inquisitive children. The occult is highly dangerous and is not a game.
This petition was rejected not because it’s clearly batshit bonkers mad insane, but because “It was similar to and/or overlaps with an existing petition or petitions”. Like this one.
Posted by Andrew @ March 10th, 2010 10:01 pm. Filed under: Anything that passes the spellchecker must be what I meant,Gibberish,Oh Yeah? Let's See You Write A Better Petition!,Really Epic Duplicate Petitions,Rejected Petitions,spelin an grammer — Tags: Johanna Yohara Robby —
by Johanna Yohara Robby of Piano World (rejected)In Southwark and Lambeth constituecies we are questioning the rules and ownership of Grand / Upright Pianos in public spaces as churches, pubs schools and halls in Southwark and Lambeth that are not beign used at all in any activity specialy concerts, recitals, marathons, lessons, choir -song accompaiment.
Owners of public spaces with an Upright or Grand Piano will consequently find performers willing to perform and able to accept commissions and so they will be compelled to feature a proportion of standard repertoire.
The Owners may be inviting the audience to engage with Piano activities. Promoters / Publishers must be taken in association with the Piano owners and the Piano performers. We have established that the direct costs to a performer of preparing a new repertory is very considerable, in some cases astronomical, while performances of serious contemporary works are few in comparison to performances overall. Generally Piano Concert will have four categories of performances. Ones in whom they believe in absolutely for the quality of their work, even knowing that they will become commercially or contemplative
Posted here:
Posted by Ben @ February 4th, 2010 8:44 pm. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,Just Like That!,Young, Dumb, And Online — Tags: Calum of The Misbourne School —
by Calum of The Misbourne Schoolthe petition is calling to stop knife crime. it tears lives and families apart but most importantly it costs lives! Stop Knife crime! Fight against it!
Posted by Ben @ January 29th, 2010 10:35 pm. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,Hang on -- This Should've Been Rejected,The ePetition Team is a Confederacy of Dunces,These Kids Today With Their Modern Haircuts And Hippetty-Hop Music — Tags: Mrs Emma Casey —
The ePetition team show us their glowing incompetence by once again allowing a duplicate petition to slip through their hands.
by Mrs Emma CaseyI ask if possible that new laws make it so that parents are solely responsible and accountable for their child’s actions; I ask to bring about proper parental responsibilities. Where parents would be prosecuted along side there child if their child broke the law. Mother/Fathers have a “duty of care” to raise their children with morals, ethics and a decent ethos instilled in them, if they fail there parental responsibilities then the parents’, should be equally responsible for what their child has done or does. This is what our society is lacking.
Not only is this a patently ridiculous petition (“solely responsible”? What, so the kid gets away with it while their parents serve time?), but we had more or less this very idea suggested not three days ago. And it’s popped up several times over the last year, too. One has to wonder whether the ePetition Team are taking their admittedly rather pointless job seriously. I mean, you’ve gott have pride in your job, even if your job does entail thumbing through the public’s batshit insane ramblings on a daily basis and making the least-worst ones signable by other batshit insane people.
Posted by Ben @ January 26th, 2010 9:54 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,Duplicate Petitions,Hanging's Too Good For 'Em!,You and What Army? — Tags: Mr J Bradshaw —
by Mr J BradshawThere are too many crimes now which consist of murder,homicide, rapists by gangs and disturbing individuals.
Instead of sending them to prison with small sentences or life sentences I consider it would be better to see these people (from 16+) placed into army training grounds, trained and then placed on the front-line.
This might make them realise what they have done wrong and change them into something better!
Or it’ll be the British government putting weapons in the hands of convicted murderers and rapists. I can’t say I particularly approve of that.
Posted by Ben @ January 21st, 2010 11:30 pm. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,Hang on -- This Should've Been Rejected,There's Already A Solution But Don't Let That Stop You From Bothering The PM — Tags: Mr. C. Baker, Steven J. Grimwade —
You’ve seen this petition before. We all have. Once every month or so some bright spark gets it into their head that adding a “None of the above” option would be a brilliant idea. Unfortunately this month, we’ve got two of the buggers:
by Mr. C. BakerThe option to legitimately select No Suitable Candidate would be available for anyone eligible to vote in the United Kingdom. The object of voting No Suitable Candidate is to allow a true representation of public opinion whilst being constructive. Based on the principles of allowing the majority to make decisions effectively and efficiently, while ensuring fairness towards the minority, this voting option gives an individual the right to voice an opinion. In such a case where the No Suitable Candidate were to receive a majority of the vote cast a variety of formal procedures may be invoked which would include beginning the election process again with the original candidates excluded. The petition is made with No party agenda or political bias. Support is sought in the interest of treating the public fairly, especially by those that seek to govern us.
by Steven J. GrimwadeWe the undersigned put forward the proposition that in the forthcoming UK election, and for all future elections, a ‘Vote of no confidence’ box should be introduced to the ballot form/slip. This would allow people who wish to exercise their right to vote but see no clear distinction between the existing parties, or just wish to voice their discontent at the current state of politics in this country, to register their democratic opinion. In the past various parties have blamed low turn-out to the voting polls on ‘public apathy’. This may not be the case. We believe the ‘Vote of no confidence’ box would remove this ambiguity, allowing the government a clearer perspective of the public’s changing attitudes, while also granting the hitherto silent voice of those wishing to abstain from voting for a particular party, to be heard.
Fucking Hell, people. Let me explain this to you so you can go back to watching Jeremy Kyle: Elections are not opinion polls. You are not being asked which of the candidates you like more than the others. You’re being asked to pick the candidate that you believe would be the least-worst at running the country. If you truly don’t want to vote for any of the candidates, you can simply stay home when the polls are open. That way you get to throw away your vote and stay in and watch Doctors.
And to the government’s ePetition admin team: What the bloody Hell are you doing? Your job is to make sure shit like this doesn’t happen. It’s bad enough you approve a petition like this once a month every month like clockwork, but to approve two near-identical petitions on the same day? What the fuck are the government paying you for? Do you know what your job is supposed to be? Does anybody know?
What a bunch of fucking rocket surgeons.
Posted by Ben @ January 12th, 2010 9:46 pm. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,The Nasty Television Upset Me!,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?,You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: Kevin Chapple —
Kevin Chapple feels very strongly about porn being available on freeview.
by Kevin ChappleAs Freeview is a service that is beamed into more or less everyone’s home now I ask the Government to shut down the Adult channels that run late at night until 5.30am. The channels are not only a money making scam but by what is shown corrupts minds. I am especially concerned about children in their rooms up in the early hours watching this. Writing to Ofcom they tell me 3 of the channels are licensed by the Nederlands and 2 regulated by Ofcom. It is about time action was taken against these channels now before we end up with dozens of them.
So strongly, in fact, that he submitted two petitions about it.
by Kevin ChappleFreeview tv is hosting adult porn channels which automatically tune in to everybodies home from midnight to 5.30am There are now about 6 of them running with models hardly leaving anything to the imagination. I am concerned it can corrupt kids in their bedrooms up late as well as adults. I ask that these money making scams be taken off public Freeview tv
I think the real loser here is the government’s ePetition administrators. Well done, team!
Posted by Ben @ January 12th, 2010 7:24 am. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,Invading The Animal Kingdom,My Other Car Is Another Car,Really Epic Duplicate Petitions — Tags: Tobias Haynes —
Can you tell the difference between this petition…:
by Tobias HaynesThis is a petition to limit cars to 70 MPH; Why are cars made capable to do high speeds reaching 120MPH etc when our laws clearly state 70MPH is the Maximum possible throughout the country?
Lorries and other vehicles are limited and forced to obey limits… Long gone are the days where nothing could be done…Technology makes limiting cars possible. A nut and bolt is all it takes. A minimum cost saving countless lives, freeing up our hospitals from constant RTA’s and a mass reduction in motorway Road Rage, tailgating and “Motorway Bullying”. People are afraid to use our motorways. Cars are constantly dangerously driving on our motorways being continuous hazards and nothing is being done! In 2008 49% of Cars exceeded the 70MPH speed limit-15% travelling above 80MPH! This is unacceptable! Our government must take account of this and something must be done! It is a simple matter simply resolved!
Car insurance costs would decrease, “boy racers” and speeders would decline (if not disappear!), new statutory offences could be created making offences for attempting to remove limiters or driving without a limiter etc.
Please sign and make a difference- Make our roads safer!
Thank You
…and this petition:
by Tobias HaynesThis is a petition to limit cars to 70 MPH; Why are cars made capable to do high speeds reaching 120MPH etc when our laws clearly state 70MPH is the Maximum possible throughout the country?
Lorries and other vehicles are limited and forced to obey limits… Long gone are the days where nothing could be done…Technology makes limiting cars possible. A nut and bolt is all it takes. A minimum cost saving countless lives, freeing up our hospitals from constant RTA’s and a mass reduction in motorway Road Rage, tailgating and “Motorway Bullying”. People are afraid to use our motorways. Cars are constantly dangerously driving on our motorways being continuous hazards and nothing is being done! In 2008 49% of Cars exceeded the 70MPH speed limit-15% travelling above 80MPH! This is unacceptable! Our government must take account of this and something must be done! It is a simple matter simply resolved!
Car insurance costs would decrease, “boy racers” and speeders would decline (if not disappear!), new statutory offences could be created making offences for attempting to remove limiters or driving without a limiter etc.
Please sign and make a difference- Make our roads safer!
Thank You
Posted by Ben @ December 23rd, 2009 7:41 pm. Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again",Are You Kidding? We Can't Afford That!,Duplicate Petitions,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me.,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,What A Dick,Xenophobia — Tags: Barbara Steffensen —
This is a beautifully moronic petition. I love it. It’s like a snapshot of every racist, xenophobic, “Put Broken Britain First” petition I’ve read over the last year.
by Barbara SteffensenPeople of this country are already taxed to the hilt. They do not need to pay more tax so that Britain can be seen to be a leader in world events. Charity begins at home. We need to take care of our own British people first before looking at other nations, especially considering the debt we’re already in.
