WH E-Mailers Must Tell WH Whether They Support Bush

Solution: Say you do, then include a message in your e-mail: "I lied about supporting Bushist policies, but then Bush lies all the time."



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/technology/18MAIL.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

July 18, 2003
White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly
By JOHN MARKOFF


Do you want to send an e-mail message to the White House?

Good luck.

In the past, to tell President Bush — or at least those assigned to read his mail — what was on your mind it was necessary only to sit down at a personal computer connected to the Internet and dash off a note to president@whitehouse.gov.

But this week, Tom Matzzie, an online organizer with the A.F.L.-C.I.O., discovered that communicating with the White House had become a bit more daunting. When Mr. Matzzie sent an e-mail protest against a Bush administration policy, the message was bounced back with an automated reply, saying he had to send it again in a new way.

Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the first time last week, those who want to send a message to President Bush must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts by asking whether the message sender supports White House policy or differs with it.

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1) Obviously to discourage opposition.

2) To create a database of "potential troublemakers", which I'm sure will be turned over to Homeland Security. Names of supporters can be turned over to the RNC for entry into its computer system.

Can you imagine how Freepers would have shit in their pants had the Clinton Administration done this?

Fresh from the WH.