Almost Free at last!

Part of The Alabama Civil War Memorial.

     Texas and a few other states have already reached their goal on the White House website "We The People".  The petitions are calling for secession from the U.S. following the re-election of Barack Obama.
     If enough people sign their petitions, they get...er...an official response from the White House!

     Alabama is a couple of thousand short right now, but I have no doubt the 25,000 goal will be reached soon. Then Alabama too will get...an official response from The White House.

     The response may be in the form of a short note:

Dear petitioner,

• We fought over this question in 1861.
• About 3% of the U.S. population died.
• anything else?

                                                                The White House

[UPDATE: the number passed 25,000 last night!]