More helmet petition fun

Remember the petition "Compulsary [sic] Cycle Helmets For Children", at
http://www.petitiononline.com/p4hpet/petition.html
?

I see that the names and comments of certain ;-) of the contributors
have been removed, and replaced with the words "line voided"; but their
signatures still count towards the petition.

--
Mark, UK
"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

I see that the names and comments of certain ;-) of the contributors
have been removed, and replaced with the words "line voided"; but their
signatures still count towards the petition.

"Signatures for this petition must be reviewed and approved by the
petition author or PetitionOnline Staff before they appear on this site."

Bum.

Mark Thompson wrote on 19/12/2006 18:18 +0100:
I see that the names and comments of certain ;-) of the contributors
have been removed, and replaced with the words "line voided"; but their
signatures still count towards the petition.

"Signatures for this petition must be reviewed and approved by the
petition author or PetitionOnline Staff before they appear on this site."


Well it says it's a Compulsory Petition so everyone should sign up - a
petition full of voided signatures is rather more effective for the anti
cause than one with all valid names - IMO


--
Tony

"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least
wildly inaccurate..."
Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Tony Raven wrote:
Well it says it's a Compulsory Petition so everyone should sign up - a
petition full of voided signatures is rather more effective for the anti
cause than one with all valid names - IMO

I've just signed up as "Line voided", my previous "Wile E Coyote" having
been voided. Line voided is currently pending approval.

--
Danny Colyer URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Danny Colyer wrote on 19/12/2006 19:28 +0100:

I've just signed up as "Line voided", my previous "Wile E Coyote" having
been voided. Line voided is currently pending approval.


It didn't avoid the line then? ;-)

--
Tony

"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least
wildly inaccurate..."
Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:28:18 +0000, Danny Colyer
wrote:

Tony Raven wrote:
Well it says it's a Compulsory Petition so everyone should sign up - a
petition full of voided signatures is rather more effective for the anti
cause than one with all valid names - IMO

I've just signed up as "Line voided", my previous "Wile E Coyote" having
been voided. Line voided is currently pending approval.

I've just signed up as, "Pending Approval" and received this rather
contradictory sentence in the confirmation email:

"Please contribute $1.00 or more to PetitionOnline and help maintain
this premiere free speech forum."

How can it be described as "this premiere free speech forum" when it
allows petition authors to edit messages contrary to their views?

Tom Crispin wrote:

I've just signed up as, "Pending Approval" and received this rather
contradictory sentence in the confirmation email:

"Please contribute $1.00 or more to PetitionOnline and help maintain
this premiere free speech forum."

How can it be described as "this premiere free speech forum" when it
allows petition authors to edit messages contrary to their views?

This petition has not really caught the public imagination, has it?
:-)

--
Dave...

Response to Tom Crispin:


How can it be described as "this premiere free speech forum" when it
allows petition authors to edit messages contrary to their views?

Of course it's their bat and ball, and they can do what they like on
their website; but the free speech thing should rather stick in their
throats. Still, one can certainly see the funny side of a petition with
45 signatures, thirty-odd of which are presumably iffy.

I'll be interested[1] if my own contribution, under my own name, makes
the cut.

[1] s/interested/bloody amazed

--
Mark, UK
"Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be believed."

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:12:11 -0000, Mark McNeill
wrote:

Remember the petition "Compulsary [sic] Cycle Helmets For Children", at
http://www.petitiononline.com/p4hpet/petition.html
?

I see that the names and comments of certain ;-) of the contributors
have been removed, and replaced with the words "line voided"; but their
signatures still count towards the petition.

Check # 47.

wrote:

Check # 47.

How? All I get is a page saying that there are 47 entries, but it will
not list any. Do you need to have signed it in order to see other entries?

--
Don Whybrow

Sequi Bonum Non Time

"I fought the Dharma, and the Dharma won." (Allen Ginsberg)