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If you aren't familiar with We The People, it's a section of whitehouse.gov that allows Americans to file or sign a petition in an attempt to engage government on issues that matter to them. Well, naturally since just about anyone can create a petition, you're going to get some pretty ridiculous petitions mixed in with the genuine ones.
After the re-election of President Obama this month, petitions for a number of states to secede from the rest of the country started popping up. This one is for the state of Louisiana to withdraw from the USA and create its own new government. But keep clicking through this gallery, these petitions get a lot more interesting...
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This petition was taken off the website. We can't imagine why.
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Personally, I think we should get Herman Cain's signature up on that baby.
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This petition is so eloquent that it's no wonder it has already garnered a few hundred signatures in just a matter of days.
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Only 17 signatures on this petition? I guess people aren't as excited about Disney's acquisition of "Star Wars" and the announcement of a new movie as everyone thought.
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Although I do not approve of the grammar decisions in this petition, I do appreciate the attempt to get President Obama to have a beer with the founder of Fark.com.
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Look at those numbers, people. This one looks like it's actually going to receive a response. Better start packing.
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When your state within a country wants to secede from the country, but your city within the state doesn't agree with the rest of the state within the country, it simply requests to be moved to another state within the country. This is like the "Inception" of the petition world.
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I know very little about Duncan Trussell, but I'm on my way to being the 86th signature on this petition.