
Rival petition wants Piers Morgan to stay in the U.S. because Brits don’t want him back
After a petition to deport Piers Morgan hit 74,000 signatures at the White House website—almost three times the amount needed to require the Obama administration to address it with a reply, a new petition launched on Christmas to keep Morgan in the U.S.—because the U.K. doesn’t want him back.
Though the petition doesn’t say explicitly that it was created by a Briton, it reads as though it was and the Guardian notes that the Obama administration’s rules don’t require that petitions be created by U.S. citizens in order to warrant response.
“We want to keep Piers Morgan in the USA. There are two very good reasons for this. Firstly, the first amendment. Second and the more important point. No one in the UK wants him back. Actually there is a third. It will be hilarious to see how loads of angry Americans react,” the petition reads.
The first petition to deport Morgan complained he was attacking the second amendment by speaking out against gun violence after the Newtown massacre but failed to note that he’s infuriatingly boring and a serial softball interviewer. The second petition to keep him out of England failed to note his possible involvement in the UK’s phone hacking scandal.
So, yeah—even if both petitions get past the 25,000 needed to force a White House comment, they probably both could have made stronger arguments.





December 27, 2012 at 2:09 pm, Roderick Gillis said:
Assault rifles like the one used at Sandy Hook are designed for one purpose, to kill people. They belong in the military, not in ordinary peoples homes. The right to bear arms is not being violated by not allowing people to have these weapons, they didn't exist when the constitution was drawn up. Placing armed guards in schools is not the answer (it didn't help at Columbine) and may only make them the first target of a shooter. If you place armed guards in schools, you might as well post them in churches, movie theaters, concert halls, shopping malls, arenas, etc. Radicals can't commit large scale massacres using guns if they don't have these types at their disposal.
December 27, 2012 at 8:13 pm, David Wilson said:
We have them to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. Our forefathers knew the government could possible turn sour again.
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February 08, 2013 at 10:25 pm, Tyler Krajewski said:
When the constitution was written, the first amendment did not include Facebook either…. Our founding fathers wanted us to be as well armed as the military, to protect us from a tyrannical government…