On-Line Petition to White House

An Obama appointee cooked Tom's goose. I highly doubt Barry would help the guy who snubbed him on the WH visit. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if he had a brief phone call with his boy Chin about the decision before the fact.

Sad to say but I wouldn't doubt that a tiny bit

I could be wrong, but somehow I don't think this is high on the President's radar.

It was high enough on his radar for both him and his minion to take shots at us about it.

I see you have prostate0sphinctoid's character assessed perfectly. Well described.

Not sure it means much, but it's good to see a few politicians actually commenting on how corrupt this ordeal has been. Also, it's pretty clear the tide is turning among the initial haters who smelled blood in the water. As this crap has dragged along, more and more people (including NFL owners) are starting to comment that the whole thing is a farce. Better than nothing I guess

This is why I'm not as eager as many of you to condemn Kraft. There seems to be a bit of a civil war raging among the NFL owners and Bob may well be willing to appear to lose a battle in order to win the war, eventually. He is a Krafty guy.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/white-house-petitions-works_n_4848866.html

7 petitions that got favorable results.

rough draft:

Petition for Executive order to stay employee suspension in the matter of “NFL vs. Brady”:

Dear Mr. President,

As you are aware, the National Football league (“the NFL”) is a trade organization with enormous power and is currently involved with various lawsuits clogging up the Federal Courts as a result of a clause in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (“the CBA”) which is not consistent with the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (“the Constitution”). The exercise of this unconstitutional clause has been compounded by actions if performed by Governmental authorities would be violations of the 4th Amendment as well as the 5th Amendment. We ask that you stay all current awards against Thomas Brady that have been ordered by the Commissioner and remanded by an independent Arbitrator that would not violate Federal Labor Law and abide by the Constitution. Background information is as follows:

Article 46 of the CBA allows the NFL Commissioner (currently Roger Goodell) to serve as an arbitrator to appeals of disciplinarian awards. This ,in and of itself, is not illegal, but the Commissioner ruling on the process which he oversees (game day equipment management) himself is a conflict which is at odds with the work of an arbitrator and a violation of federal labor law guaranteeing an arbitrator that is not evidently partial. The intention of the NFL Commissioner serving as arbitrator was obviously for off-field behavior, primarily domestic violence, narcotics abuse and other potentially criminal behavior, activity which he does not oversee (as far as we are currently aware).

The 14th Amendment of the Constitution Section 1 guarantees “due process” to all citizens. The CBA filed with the US Department of Labor currently includes a clause that gives the Commissioner the ability to discipline covered employees for “conduct detrimental to the league”. As a result of a lack of clarification, this vague clause deprives covered employees of their due process to defend themselves in federal court against the award. This clearly makes at least this section of the CBA an invalid contract and unenforceable.

In addition to the actual violation of the Constitution, the Commissioner has engaged in behavior of depriving collectively bargained employees from their right to avoid self-incrimination (5th Amendment of the Constitution) and their right to be secure in their persons and effects (4th Amendment) by demanding a undefined level of “co-operation” and requiring them to surrender their personal communication device with no probable cause or warrant. Probably Cause most likely could have been established with tampered equipment but ,as we have seen, EVERY single objective analysis of the data publicly available has demonstrated that no probable cause exists. In addition, the Commissioner publicly stated that an “Independent” investigator would be issuing a report (commonly known as “The Wells Report”) and subsequently invoked attorney-client privilege and utilized the “Independent” Investigator to examine witnesses on behalf of the NFL during arbitration.
The sum total of these actions is that an employee has been illegally deprived of his right to work, 2 of 4 Federal judges agree with that and the only way to resolve this is for either an en banc hearing of the 2nd Circuit or a Supreme Court decision, both of which would be an incredible waste of Federal judges time for an incident which so clearly violates labor laws, the Constitution and the spirit of the agreement itself.

thanks, there is a couple of new things (to me) here in Harvard's 100 questions, 46 is a doozy:


cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/247/2016/03/Deflategate-Deflategate-100-Questions-1-16-final.pdf

I'd support a public execution of Goodell.