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White House Petition Calls for…Deporting Piers Morgan Over Anti-Gun Views

Dec. 22, 2012 3:54pm Madeleine Morgenstern

White House Petition Calls for Deporting CNN Host Piers Morgan Over Anti Gun Views

A new online White House petition is calling for CNN’s Piers Morgan to be deported for “attacking the Second Amendment” following the Connecticut elementary school massacre.

“British Citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment,” the petition states. “We demand that Mr. Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens.”

Morgan has battled pro-gun advocates several times on “Piers Morgan Tonight” in the wake of the Newtown shooting, even calling one gun lobby director a “dangerous man” who brings “shame” on his country.

“How many more kids have to die before you guys say, ‘we want less guns, not more’?'” Morgan asked Gun Owners of America head Larry Pratt earlier this week.

White House Petition Calls for Deporting CNN Host Piers Morgan Over Anti Gun Views More than 7,000 people had signed the petition as of Saturday afternoon. It would require 25,000 signatures by Jan. 20 to garner an official White House response.

The petition was apparently created by Kurt Nimmo of the website infowars.com.

Morgan acknowledged the petition on Twitter Saturday, tweeting at one point: “6,600 Americans have currently signed the petition to deport me – meaning 311,993,400 clearly want me to stay. Thank you.”

In another tweet he said it was ironic that the petition-signers would have him deported for using the First Amendment to express his views.

“Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd Amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?” Morgan wrote.

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akbeckfan
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:02pm
Piers, you would have to be a U.S. citizen to have the 1st amendment right. i understand you are not so you don’t. that being said, then it would be safe to assume that you have no voice on our second amendment or any other rights here in the good old U.S. of A.

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- Kupo
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:07pm
  Wrong. The Constitution does not only apply to citizens.
  
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- Calv017
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:51pm
  @ Kupo, if the Constitution applied to All not just American Citezens that would mean foreigners could vote. Nice try but it doesn’t work that way.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:17am
  See my response to your nonsense below.
  
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Spitfire1938
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:59pm
Gosh… I do hope everyone using a “White House” set up and authorized ‘Petition’ site realizes that giving your name to them, attached to a particular cause, is kind of like asking the “WOLF” whom he’d like for dinner.

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- Spitfire1938
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:23pm
  Sorry I meant : ‘who’
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:57pm
Sounds like a good plan. But really, it would be much more fun to just make him want to leave. Willingly.

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Braintree64
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:55pm
Damned if I do still disdain the British. Third generation Irish and rarely ever mention that WE ESCAPED STARVATION, TYRANNY and HOPELESSNESS for America. And because they have no home left – the fools have let themselves be over run – they’re coming here with the same nonsense. We have our liberties and no BRIT – or Byonce celebrity is going to change that. I’m the Mom of a 5th grader-terrible crime. God bless all those people enduring tonight. Not ever to minimize – but we can not respond with such irrationality. Dreadful situation – no doubt. But no, we’re not going to give up our guns.

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pitboss711
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:54pm
“Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd Amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?” Morgan wrote.

No, your opinion is NOT protected by the 1st Amendment, Piers, because you’re not an American. But, guess what? We Americans have BOTH 1st and 2nd Amendment rights, and we don’t appreciate some whiny little British twit questioning them.

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- Kupo
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:10pm
  Absolutely incorrect. Everyone is guaranteed the right to free speech in this country, even if they don’t have a social security number.
  
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:51pm
While we are deporting people lets include Barry Hussein. Deport him to whatever country he has his allegiance with because it isn’t America.

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Thedadde
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:42pm
PM, another lib know-nothing, alien to boot. How does this make any news/sense? I forgot, Democrats. If he was black, I could be racist. Hoot. (darn it, din’t mean to give one)

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:42pm
Morgan has to be loving this. I’m sure this has improved his ratings noticeably. I hope you do realize that all of this is about his TV ratings. He’s manipulating this tragedy for ratings. That’s all.

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OlefromMN
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:33pm
“…meaning 311,993,400 clearly want me to stay.”

Piers, do be so sure about that. Just because we hadn’t signed the petition (some of us don’t play in silly petitions) doesn’t mean that we want you to stay or imply that we feel your show is worth viewing. Your ratings will deport you long before our government does.

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Perspective
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:31pm
Actually Piers,you are not an American citizen therefore our rights do not apply to you. If you hate this country so much I suggest you take your opinion and go home. I recently taught my youngest son about opinions. You see,opinions are like a**h***s,everyone has one and quite a few of them stink.

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- Kupo
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:11pm
  Actually the bill of rights is still very much applicable to non-citizens. I suggest you learn what the F you’re talking about before opening your mouth in the future.
  
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- Calv017
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:54pm
  Once again Kupo the Constitution and bill of rights do not apply to non citizens. If it did that means that they could vote which would really F up our elections, Oh wait I forgot that was what happened here in this last election. Illegals voted in droves because state issued Photo ID’s were not required and they were promised citizenship.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:11am
  Nope, you’re totally wrong. The Constitution doesn’t grant the right to vote to anybody. Read it a little bit more carefully. It does in certain places say that certain people cannot be denied the right to vote, but it never, not one single time, grants the right to vote to anybody.
  
  You = schooled
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:15am
  From Consitution.net
  
  The Constitution contains many phrases, clauses, and amendments detailing ways people cannot be denied the right to vote. You cannot deny the right to vote because of race or gender. Citizens of Washington DC can vote for President; 18-year-olds can vote; you can vote even if you fail to pay a poll tax. The Constitution also requires that anyone who can vote for the “most numerous branch” of their state legislature can vote for House members and Senate members.
  
  Note that in all of this, though, the Constitution never explicitly ensures the right to vote, as it does the right to speech, for example. It does require that Representatives be chosen and Senators be elected by “the People,” and who comprises “the People” has been expanded by the aforementioned amendments several times. Aside from these requirements, though, the qualifications for voters are left to the states. And as long as the qualifications do not conflict with anything in the Constitution, that right can be withheld. For example, in Texas, persons declared mentally incompetent and felons currently in prison or on probation are denied the right to vote. It is interesting to note that though the 26th Amendment requires that 18-year-olds must be able to vote, states can allow persons younger than 18 to vote, if they chose to.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:44am
  Note that, according to your asinine argument, that since small children can’t vote they aren’t covered by the Constitution. Can you see how now how your argument is completely impotent?
  
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wordweaver
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:29pm
Let’s send this insufferable clown home, and open up a job in broadcasting for an American citizen.

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djeffcoat
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:20pm
Maybe Piers should take a long, late-night walk through an inner-city neighborhood. Maybe some gang-banger might bust a cap in his a$$. Bet that would give him a different opinion on gun ownership.

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Hickory
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:13pm
If things are so great in the UK, why did the limey leave there?

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mbean
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:12pm
This just gives him publicity and attention that his pathetic show on CNN would never get.

Ignore him and he will go away when CNN cancels his low rated show.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:11pm
Let’s see now, we currently have a Marxist, Anti-colonialist, black-nationalist, afrocentric,and racist President/ First Lady who years before generated FBI files for their “Un-American” activities, a Vice President suffering from (but clearly enjoying) his dementia, a Congress full of Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s, a Justice Department responsible for gun shipments to Mexican cartels and truncheon-carrying Black Panthers obstructing the vote, an EPA abusing the rights of Americans on a daily basis, a Secretary of State PERSONALLY responsible for the murders of four American patriots, and a media that doesn’t give a damn about any of it. Yet, we’re worried about an irrelevant, pipsqueak, liberal limey who no one listens to or cares about.

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breakobamanow
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:09pm
1 John 5:14-15 (KJV)
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Make your petitions to the LORD and let him here them. Before you do that…

John 9:31
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Call on the name of the LORD and ask for mercy, repent of your sins and learn the truth that is in Jesus Christ’s words.

Despise not those that oppress you but pray for them always. I don’t know Mr. Morgan, I do not watch CNN, rarely turn that godless talking box on. I give the glory to God for my ability to abstain from the filth on it.

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M40-A1
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:01pm
Mr. Morgan, only U.S. citizens have Constitutional Rights. Nice try hiding behind OUR 1st. Amend. FYI- you Limey B@st@ard, OUR Rights are not a convenience to be picked over to forward your marxist ideology. You have no issue with the 1st. and even admittedly utilize it to condemn the 2nd. That’s now how it works idiot. Now leave, or perhaps you can stay and we’ll stretch your neck.

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- Ron Staiger
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Unfortunately, you are incorrect, Sir. Illegal low-lifes squatting on American soil, resident aliens, and rambling, undesirable lower-caste rif-raf like Morgan do have the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
  
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Kolbie
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:01pm
Piers, although few Great Brittan subjects admit it, you lost your Empire (a long long time ago). In fact, you lost to USA not once but twice. You failed to destroy us when you burned the White House and Washington. Face it, you are the “Biggest Loser.” So please go home now. I believe there are many stables full of crap back home in jolly-ole-england waiting for you to personally clean them out.

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jordy2010
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:54pm
Does the US Constituion protect the speech of non-citizen who uses his job in the US to attack one of the most fundamental rights of this country?? Deport the bum!!!!!!

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tbeachhead
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:51pm
Dear Mr. Morgan: I understand you are not a citizen…Please feel free to use your rights as a Brit to say whatever you wish to say…on British soil…as long as you do not get arrested for doing so. Here you have all the rights of a guest, and you are not welcome to use the rights of an American Citizen to abuse the privilege of your guest residence. Period…or should I say, “Full Stop.” It is not in the purview of a guest to seek to bring down the pillars of his host’s house, those pillars that have long been rejected in the guest’s own home, and whose absence are the harbinger of the loss of all freedom in your own homeland.

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Chrison
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:51pm
And, by the way, IMHO anyone who’s willing to sign a petition on whitehouse.gov ought to have their head examined. This is a PERFECT way to get on Obama’s “enemies list” and maybe someday getting yourself hauled off to the “re-education camps.”

But, who am I to tell YOU what to do?!? Go ahead… give the leftist folks at whitehouse.gov your contact information. Be my guest!

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- breakobamanow
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:34pm
  Do you have a job and file taxes? They already know where we all are. Do you have a cell phone?: if so they can and are tracking many across this country. Do you use a debit card when you purchase food or other Items? Even your bank knows where you go, what day you went, and how much you spent. They know where you bought gas and can easily calculate how much you purchased by the PPG, Look up at every intersection and smile your being recorded when you go through with a date and time stamp so the next camera you pass later they can actually trace your route.
  Are you afraid of them? I’m not, because I belong to Jesus. If you know things in this world are not right, then don’t you think it is time for you to get right?.If you are already then why are you so worried? Read the bible and find some peace and rest. I don’t know you but I love you enough to tell you the truth. God bless you.
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:51pm
Limie in a box.
Is that not the proper way to ship limes??

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rEt_fiELdoP
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:50pm
Inspite of what he thinks of himself, he is a “non-starter” in my books. I’ve watched him over the years and he has shown himself to be less on talent and more on opinion.

Perhaps many saw this when he was a judge on the boobtube for a reality show. All mouth….

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concealled9mms
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:49pm
morgans show is really down in the ratings game, so what happens this stupid azz site gives him a ratings boost, and makes him relevant [ somewhat]

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Patriot Z
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:47pm
“6,600 Americans have currently signed the petition to deport me – meaning 311,993,400 clearly want me to stay. Thank you.”

No Mr. Morgan that means 6600 Americans are giving you the choice to shut up about things you dont know or get out. The 312 million are locking and loading to stage the revolutionary war 2.0. and like brittan didn before..brother you picked the WRONG DAMN SIDE!

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