Anti under radar???

BlueHeeler · Feb 17, 2013

A seemingly mundane post was made on the DC local dog list serve. The call was to sign a petition to stop the euthanasia of a service dog of a disabled veteran. The dog bit a woman who admittedly was abusing the dog with a metal pole.
Here is the interesting part. The petition site looks normal on a PC:

The website looks a bit different on a phone:

Everyone signing the petition is unknowingly supporting Mayors Against Illegal Guns. There is no way on PC to even see the check box. By default it is checked as, "Yes". They have close to 300,000 signatures for the dog and Bloomberg. Not that it would be unlikely for Mayors Against Illegal Guns to manipulate data, but this is downright fraudulent data collection. :mad54:

If NRA pulled this kind of bait and switch it would be national news.

ccarson · Feb 17, 2013

I understand that politicians fail to truly represent the people and often pursue their own personal agendas and that is egregious....I have no words to describe how much worse it is to fake support for their personal causes...well at least none I can share with kids in the room!

milldog · Feb 17, 2013

Looks like that option is auto-clicked for several petitions. Just did a random check of about 10 an it showed up on 3, including one asking the Islamists in Mali to not use child soldiers (the naivete of do-gooders astounds me). Looks like the site is openly allied with Bloomberg so maybe they offer the Mayors' box as an automatic option for folks starting a petition and the authors just go with the flow? Regardless, someone will add all those clicked codes up and say eleventy billion people agree with Bloomberg.

BlueHeeler · Feb 17, 2013

ccarson said:
I understand that politicians fail to truly represent the people and often pursue their own personal agendas and that is egregious....I have no words to describe how much worse it is to fake support for their personal causes...well at least none I can share with kids in the room!

Most people appreciate disabled veterans and their service dogs. To secretly attach any unrelated political cause is dirty pool. :tdown:

oldman12 · Feb 17, 2013

Anything to move their agenda forward.Typical Communist filth.

Schwabe · Feb 17, 2013

nothing is suprising anymore ....

Joseph87' · Feb 17, 2013

Wow that's ridiculous tactics. Smart but damn ridiculous.

Seagrave1963 · Feb 17, 2013

Information is power. When you control information, you are powerful.

BlueHeeler · Feb 17, 2013

Joseph87' said:
Wow that's ridiculous tactics. Smart but damn ridiculous.

FWIW I sent the links to CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, BBC, NBC, and NRA Cam and Company.

It is redonkulous.

oldman12 · Feb 17, 2013

Good idea

MDFF2008 · Feb 17, 2013

I can't find anything in the source code of the web based petition. Either they are hiding it very well, or it's something weird.

I see it on my phone though.

Javantalith · Feb 17, 2013

Just submitted a tip about it to breitbart.com. If the MSM does not care to report anything they will and call out the media for not doing so.

Safetech · Feb 17, 2013

I just put this on Facebook.

Hope others will, as well.

BlueHeeler · Feb 17, 2013

Safetech said:
I just put this on Facebook.

Hope others will, as well.

There is an official facebook. It is stunning how few people know what they are signing.

https://www.facebook.com/ASMDSS/posts/159858200831484

Deep Thought · Feb 17, 2013

At that rate, why even have a checkbox? If it's that blatantly fraudulent, they'd be better off just inventing stats. Would be just as deceitful, and easier!

bkuether · Feb 17, 2013

BlueHeeler said:
Most people appreciate disabled veterans and their service dogs. To secretly attach any unrelated political cause is dirty pool.

Liberals are not pulling any punches. Conservatives need to start doing the same.

HKB · Feb 17, 2013

I am sure the dems won the election in the same manor...

Clovis · Feb 18, 2013

Out of curiosity, went to the site on the PC. No sign of a check box for something else that you guys are finding on your phones. All I got is a dumb phone so I can't check there, but interestingly they list the folks who have signed this and it looks on the last page that fully more than three quarters are from overseas. I hope the other side does not think they can present polls taken world wide and get away with it. Oh and it looks like the dog won't get put down.

FrankZ · Feb 18, 2013

I sent a support ticket to them about this .

Deep Thought · Feb 18, 2013

FrankZ said:
I sent a support ticket to them about this .

I bet those count as votes in the poll also.

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