Dear Ciao Rights supporters,
Just letting those interested in Ciao Rights affairs, another petition was was sent to the Scottish parliament earlier this year via its special in-house 'e-petition' system. Several other petitions have been sent in previous years, went through the vigorous 'vetting' system before going before the Public Petitions Committee to be peremptorily rejected in under a minute or two. This time a new 'three strikes and you're out' rule has been invented to reject this year's petition on the basis that it was similar in content to three other petitions I have submitted. This new system makes it easy for the government to never make any legal changes it doesn't want to make, no matter how many people sign a petition or how persistent they are.
All I can do is revert to change.org petitions and ignore the Scottish Parliament's sham scheme.
Here is the CIAO Rights change.org petition to Scotland. I hope you sign it and share with others. Thanks to all of you who are helping to support human rights for CIAO people. Ciao! RM