And the White House administration will be forced to deliver an official response:
Petition to deport Bieber on White House website gets 100k signatures in 6 days
by adamah 7 Replies latest social entertainment
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Las Malvinas son Argentinas
They'll just punt it to the folks in immigration. He doesn't want to be known as the president who booted Justin Bieber.
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Band on the Run
Is this supposed to be a good thing? I saw Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. He was booted out of the country. John Lennon was under constant threat of removal b/c of minor marijuana offenses. It was Ringo's stash, too. Does anyone truly believe that the Nixon administration was worried about a minor marijuana offense?
The United States suffers when we remove artists. I don't consider Bieber in the same league as Chaplin or Lennon. He deserves to be foolish. What happens when other countries start kicking out American artists.
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Band on the Run
I did not read anything about an official response being required.
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Band on the Run
The admin promises a response. The responses sound as tho college interns wrote them. I could not believe the topics of some petitions. Not a shred of government responsibility. No action is possible on many items. I read that Bieber is facing assault charges. Maybe he will leave the US.
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adamah
BOTR said- The admin promises a response. The responses sound as tho college interns wrote them. I could not believe the topics of some petitions.
Point being, could it be that even a official government petition is largely fluff? Even one where Jay Carney (the White House spokesman) signs his name?
There was the petition to deport Piers Morgan after he pushed for gun control on his show, and the WH response (which explained 1st amendment rights):
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/when-discussing-second-amendment-keep-first-mind-too
And let's not forget the petition compelling the WH to start construction of a death star by 2016, which hit it's goal and elicited a witty WH response:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking
Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
- The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
- The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
- Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget
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adamah
The petition to deport Justin has 191k signatures as of this morning, but Bieber's fans have mounted a counter-petition a few days ago (and with only 3k signatures, they've got a long way to go to get to the 100k threshold before triggering an official response).
Pretty silly stuff, but a good demonstration of why justice isn't doled out based on popular opinion; instead, courts need actual evidence to convict someone of a crime worthy of deportation.
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kurtbethel
There's no need to deport him. SOP is to wait until he leaves, and then deny him entrance when he tries to return. That's routinely done for someone who has commited minor infractions. Problem solved.
http://www.independenttraveler.com/travel-tips/canada/canada-immigration-not-so-groovy