Petition to build a ‘Death Star’ garners 17,000 signatures on White House website

[Ambrocious]

A petition on the White House website calling for the government to build a "Star Wars"-style "Death Star" by 2016 has garnered more than 17,000 signatures.

The authors of the strange appeal call on the Obama administration to recreate the giant planet-destroying spacecraft from George Lucas's 1977 film, citing a strengthened national defense and job creation as some of the benefits.

"By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority program and weapon system such as a Death Star," the petition reads, "the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense."

So far 17,139 have signed the online petition, hosted on the White House's "We The People" site, which allows anyone to flag an issue they think the government needs to address. If the petition gets 25,000 signatures by Dec. 14, it will be reviewed by White House staff.

But that doesn't mean Obama is going to weigh in. "Petition responses will come from a variety of Administration officials, including staff at the White House," according to the website. "From time to time President Obama may respond directly to petitions, but we expect most of responses to come from other Administration officials."

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Personal Note: This is insane! Are they REALLY trying to enforce a clad iron tyranny that NO ONE can resist? Granted, this is a ridiculous sounding petition...but which ruler of Earth would turn down such a...evil power grabbing idea like this? A Death Star by all defaults would take about 100 years to build (if you wanted to make it the same size as the movie) considering our inability to collect natural resources from off world to build the damned thing. We would need to travel to multiple other planets and harvest TONS AND TONS of material. This is unrealistic at best...but at least it shows the heart of what some stupid people want: to be dead. To wish death upon an entire planet is the ultimate form of self hatred.

[nIGHT]

Why not just they build free homes for the homeless, aged and for those who lost their homes from mortgages during america's economic downfall. :angry:

[anakin206]

'MURICAAAAA!!!!!!!11!!