From the MRF Motorcycle Only Checkpoints

[THoward]

Sign the Petition!
A White House petition to ban motorcycle only road side checkpoints has been created. The petition asks the White House to end the funding of the roadside checkpoints. You may be aware that President Obama began his "We The People" initiative back in September of 2011. The idea is that anyone can submit a petition to the White House and if that petition gets more than 25,000 signatures on the website within 30 days the White House will take an official look at the idea and give it an "official response".

Nothing more is promised than a response. Even if the petition gets 1,000,000 signers, it is still a non binding system. The "We The People" has been used for some serious items such as this, but has also been used to mock some ideas. One such petition asked the White House to build a "Death Star", Darth Vader's weapon of mass destruction in the Star Wars movies. The response from the White House on that one? Not gonna happen.

But this is a serious issue. So take a minute to voice your opinion on the checkpoints by signing this position. The deadline is February 7, 2013.

Sign The Petition
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...paign=shorturl

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Due to the Death Star incident, The Whitehouse.gov recently updated their signature requirement threshold.

AS OF JANUARY 15, 2013:

To cross the first threshold and be searchable within WhiteHouse.gov, a petition must reach 150 signatures within 30 days.

To cross the second threshold and require a response, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days.

The Terms of Participation were updated on January 15, 2013. View our Terms of Participation Archive page to see the previous version

[Grim2.0]

I signed, but i don't think we are going to meet the new minimum requirement for it to even be looked at.


Give the people a voice and eventually someone will make a joke of it and fuck it up for everyone else.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2487541.html

[FZjake719]

done, and done. IMHO the whole dealio is BS.

[FZRguy]

Plain and simple discrimination against motorcyclists. The AMA is fighting this and other issues like health insurance discrimination, sound issue, E15 gas, OHV land closures, etc.

The mission of the American Motorcyclist Association is to promote the motorcycling lifestyle and protect the future of motorcycling.

If you want to help the AMA help us, only $49 per year. I saved more than half that on a car rental and room booking for a Vegas trip using my AMA discounts. You can join here: http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/membership/join

[teamextreme]

So what are these motorcycle-only checkpoints they speak of? I've never heard of such a thing, are they in other parts of the country or something, and what is the point of them?

[FZRguy]

So what are these motorcycle-only checkpoints they speak of? I've never heard of such a thing, are they in other parts of the country or something, and what is the point of them?

http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/...eckpoints.aspx