Good News!
Forget writing our concerns to our Members of Congress. It’s no longer necessary and besides it doesn’t work anyway. There is a better way.

I have, for about ten years now, advocated contacting the White House direct with our concerns. I’ve done it a few times via White House email but not often. After getting no responses, not even a meaningless boilerplate response, I gave up on White House email.

A better way for directly contacting the president is the method utilized by fictional president, John Rance Macray, as described on page 267 of the novel, In Your Ear, which I self-published nearly eight years ago.

Page 267
Macray also gave us electronic voting, called the M-vote. With the M-vote, Macray, along with each senator and each representative, felt our pulse because all M-votes went to each. From the comfort of our homes, we the people could vote on every issue.

Our votes bound no one. Congress still had to do its job but it usually gave us what we wanted. After more than two hundred years, the people finally had a high degree of influence thanks to the M-vote.

Well, Macray’s method only works with an “open” president - you know, the kind we thought we were getting. Macray’s method is a no-starter for Mr. Obama because he hasn’t made such a method available to us, the very people he promised to serve with transparency.

Mr. Obama’s method of choice
It makes no difference now because Mr. Obama and his henchpeople have come up with a better way. Not just a better way but a much better way because it is completely automatic. And, automatic means he will take care of the details. It will be all hands-off for us, his subjects.

Here’s how it works
It’s already working. That is all you need to know to understand just how automatic is Mr. Obama’s method. The administration is now collecting information from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users according to Audrey Hudson’s September 16, 2009 Washington Times article. Read

Ms. Hudson’s article quotes Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for National Archives and Records Administration, as saying the presidential records law applies to "social media" and to public comments "received by the president or immediate staff."

Still, I’m skeptical. The White House has the ability to hack into all of our online data. Accordingly, I will proceed with the belief this White House does.

I do not yet use Facebook or Twitter and I only view from YouTube. Hope that doesn’t mean the big guy is discriminating against me. I don’t really think he is. I really think he just hasn’t got around to nosing into plain old internet postings yet.

Win - Win for all
I’m so excited. Once the administration has full internet snooping up and running, it will be able to know exactly what each of us think of his policies. Depending upon the nature and intensity of our expressed thoughts, we might even get a personal visit. Not from Mr. Obama of course because he is quite busy taking care of the people’s business.

But, two or three of his henchpeople might just show at the front door and inquire further. All in the name of providing excellent customer service of course. That, I would like. Too, I would be pleased to go with them to the big city so they would not have to put up with the inconvenience of my humble dwelling.

Even without a personal visit, we will surely get a boilerplate email. I suppose that is better than a USPS delivered boilerplate for, after all, the Post Office might not get its $5 billion or so bailout in time for the big guy to get back to us.

Yes, good news but . . .
My question - actually my high concern - is how will his henchpeople know where I live in case I don’t want to disclose my name and address on postings? That’s important because if they want to honor me with a visit for an in-depth interview, I don’t want them wasting time looking for me. Time is money, you know.

Well . . . they probably have their ways.