http://www.petitiononline.com/no24orce/petition.html

Story: 2 married Saudi couples have been forceably divorced because relatives of those couples asked for it because of tribal reasons.

Couple 1: Man and woman get married with approval of bride's father. He gets old and dies. Power of attorney and guardianship passes on to his sons, who are the bride's half brothers. They never liked him, so they bring case to court, and court divorces couple. Couple has 2 children. Bride refuses to go home to her half brothers. So, she stays in jail (8 months now). Infant son with her in jail. (Ex-)husband quits job to come to stay in city where she is in jail. ~5 year old daughter with him. Daughter visits mother once a week for 1 hours. Husband can't visit wife because officially they have been divirced. He is also not allowed to call on phone.

Couple 2: Father abuses daughter and won't let her get married because she brings in a good salary as a doctor and father takes most of it. She elopes with a guy to Bahrain, gets married, and comes back (dumb move). Father takes case to court, court divorces couple, and sentences both to be lashed. Husband in jail. Wife under control of father.

Please sign it.

2/27/2007 7:29:58 PM

^ signed.

2/27/2007 7:30:40 PM

oh wait... do you want me to click the link?

2/27/2007 7:32:16 PM

duh dude

2/27/2007 7:33:19 PM

aw man, are you for reel?

do you think the tribal judges or the saudi courts are going to give two shits about someone's petition on Teh Intarweb?

2/27/2007 7:36:29 PM

for real, no.

but, it depends.

if there are 100,000 signatures on it, maybe.

and anyway, this petition is going to the king, and he is the most progressive king in the history of the country.

so maybe some good can come out of it.

remember, it takes drops, to make a bucket!

2/27/2007 7:38:39 PM

740

2/27/2007 7:40:49 PM

You are so going to get tortured for this.

2/27/2007 8:12:52 PM

haha i don't care.

but no, i won't.

BTW, if y'all can post the link (and my first post) to any message boards/mailing lists you belong to, that would be great. also, send it to your contacts in your email coount.

thanks.

[Edited on February 27, 2007 at 8:22 PM. Reason : ]

2/27/2007 8:15:58 PM

she shouldn't have gone against her fathers rule.

/thread

2/27/2007 10:54:12 PM

you believe that?

do you like dictators?

2/27/2007 11:13:22 PM

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"do you think the tribal judges or the saudi courts are going to give two shits about someone's petition on Teh Intarweb?"

most likely not.

2/27/2007 11:21:51 PM

This seems low on the list of retarded fascist crap Saudi Arabia has.

2/27/2007 11:26:37 PM

that sucks beyond measure, but it is saudi arabia - are you really surprised by something like this?

2/27/2007 11:48:50 PM

fuckin islam

2/28/2007 12:51:22 AM

Please sign my petition guys. It's to allow the Amish to wear buckles on their shoes.

2/28/2007 12:55:38 AM

^^ stfu you ignorant hateful bastard.

if you want to slam islam, slam it on things which it is slammable on.

this is not part of islam.

and that's the main reason even most saudis are shocked and against this, because the judges' ruling completely goes against islam.

^ as for you, you are always reasonable and pro-rights. i don't know why you are acting like this now. take what you said to gandhi... see what he says.

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 1:48 AM. Reason : ]

2/28/2007 1:46:20 AM

^It's a joke dude. Lighten up.

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"even most saudis are shocked and against this"

What are you worried about then.

2/28/2007 7:27:11 AM

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"you believe that? do you like dictators? "

yes and if they're good for the country, yes. I'd rather have 1 good man leading a country then 1000 corrupt, over paid senators destorying it. Not saying all dictators are good but there can be one rose among the thorns.

2/28/2007 8:18:39 AM

Not signed. You either live in a place that cares about individual rights or you don't. If you don't, that's the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed. I'm not going to pretend that the rule of kings or religions is legitimate or beg them to make their policies slightly less bad.

2/28/2007 10:16:14 AM

maybe if we get enough signatures on an online petition for insurgents in iraq to quit blowing shit up it will make a difference too...or not

ps: IBTL

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 10:18 AM. Reason : .]

2/28/2007 10:17:53 AM

Really, reading this thread has shown me how apathetic some human beings are. It is sad.

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"yes and if they're good for the country, yes."

So the cases I have mentioned in the country... are they good for the country?

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"Not signed. You either live in a place that cares about individual rights or you don't. If you don't, that's the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed. "

Yeah as if it is under people's control where they are born, where they live, and if they can change the policies of their leaders or their country. This is not the US or Europe. The majority of the world is poor and oppressed and powerless.

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"maybe if we get enough signatures on an online petition for insurgents in iraq to quit blowing shit up it will make a difference too...or not ps: IBTL"

You are just a fucking immature troll.

2/28/2007 1:23:22 PM

I signed it, knowing that nothing positive is going to change in that country until someone introduces all of the poor people and foreign workers to Marx and the royal family gets the ol' "czar Nicholas." But then we'll just be mad because the commies won't give us oil and we'll bomb it and install a decadent puppet regime...wow, maybe positive change is out of the cards altogether.

I do hope the king does something, though.

2/28/2007 1:27:14 PM

Sorry I am a troll for realizing your ONLINE PETITION isnt going to do shit because its an ONLINE PETITION

Maybe if I was mature and wasn't a troll I would think an ONLINE PETITION would have any good use

2/28/2007 1:32:26 PM

i signed it

and to be honest, you are being a troll. sign it or dont, but there really isnt any reason at all to bitch about it

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 2:27 PM. Reason : spicey rock!]

2/28/2007 2:26:48 PM

except that this isnt really worthy of any soap box discussion unless someone questions the effect that online petitions have (or dont have)

2/28/2007 2:32:05 PM

no you're just being absurd and trying to fight just to fight

that's dumb, pick your battles

and you wonder why people dislike you in the soap box

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 2:38 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2007 2:38:34 PM

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"So the cases I have mentioned in the country... are they good for the country?"

what country are you talking about? Saudi does not have a dictator.

2/28/2007 4:01:44 PM

im not trying to fight just to fight...im pointing out how stupid online petitions are...sorry if you think they make a difference in anything

2/28/2007 4:15:28 PM

dictator, repressive monarchy. whatever.

2/28/2007 4:39:17 PM

Why don't you just blame bush for it and call it a day?

2/28/2007 5:00:32 PM

so does that mean i have liscence to question why we didnt go to war with saudi arabia or egypt or syria after 9/11 instead of iraq? or are you just gonna keep riding my nuts?

the internet is serious business

2/28/2007 5:23:21 PM

the United States and Saudi Arabia have always had (in recent memory at least) and interesting relationship...on the surface, we are allies...we do lots of business (mostly oil)...and then theres that little Usama bin Ladin thing and all the funding to terrorism from SA

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 5:28 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2007 5:28:06 PM

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"and then theres that little Usama bin Ladin thing and all the funding to terrorism from SA"

Osama has no ties with his Saudi families. He's excommunicated.

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"so does that mean i have liscence to question why we didnt go to war with saudi arabia or egypt or syria after 9/11 instead of iraq? or are you just gonna keep riding my nuts?"

because you are a fucking idiot if you think Egypt funds terrorists. Egypt has always been on the front lines on the war on terrorists way before the united states knew what a terrorist was. Just because one or two terrorists had a Egyptian passport doesn't mean the whole country is behind them. Thats like saying the United States sponsors terrorism because the unibomber was american

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 7:07 PM. Reason : fda]

2/28/2007 7:04:44 PM

Well we still have time to pull off an invasion before the end of 2008

2/28/2007 11:42:19 PM

This is pointless. Why don't we send a petition to Osama Bin Laden telling him to stop being a terrorist? I'm sure if 100,000 people sign, he'll lighten up a bit.

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 11:44 PM. Reason : ]

2/28/2007 11:43:53 PM

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"the United States sponsors terrorism because the unibomber was american because we enforce our global hegemony via financial and military aggression."

3/1/2007 11:47:02 PM