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Even in my position of just an average citizen, I've tried to do something: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/hold-accountable-those-who-were-charge-f

• fennecfoxen 10y ago
  wmccullough - you hang out on HN, you seem like you might be a smart person, let's all do a smart-person thing together to analyze this failure, instead of just blaming 'apathy' as the first thing that comes to mind and giving up (which would be a little ironic after all). We can brainstorm and write down a list of reasons, besides apathy, which could potentially explain to the lukewarm response to a petition like yours. A few to get started: - People might be concerned that a petition to charge unpopular people with a crime smacks of mob justice and kangaroo courts, the sort of thing you'd expect from an administration which rounds up and purges its political enemies (like, say, Turkey over the past few weeks). - People may not feel sufficiently informed about the facts of the case to accuse the named individuals of wire fraud, and as such do not wish to make such serious allegations. - Your particular petition (as an artifact of the website associated with your creation) may seem unlikely to succeed with only limited word-of-mouth marketing.