Wallawe: Do you think this on-line petition system is useful? Instead of going through a congressman, one could go through the White House?
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/how-why/terms-partic...
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/how-why/terms-partic...
The We The People petitions, I believe, are there to make the people believe they are making an impact in policy by signing one. Most, if not every, response from the White House has been a generic, basically meaningless response from an unknown staffer.
Case in point: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-v...
Notice how this petition has been signed by more people than most of the others...