Good luck emailing the White House

The change to the process for sending an email to the White House (detailed below) is just one of the small ways that the current regime is taking our rights away, inch by inch. While there is no contitutional right to be able to email the White House, making folks jump through endless hoops is just the kind of distancing act that has become more and more alarming to me…r
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“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. r
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The White House says the new e-mail system, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/webmail, is an effort to be more responsive to the public and offer the administration “real time” access to citizen comments. r
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Completing a message to the president also requires choosing a subject from the provided list, then entering a full name, organization, address and e-mail address. Once the message is sent, the writer must wait for an automated response to the e-mail address listed, asking whether the addressee intended to send the message. The message is delivered to the White House only after the person using that e-mail address confirms it. ”