For over a year since the launch of the "We the People" petitioning system, the American people have been tormented by online "activists" pushing an endless series of White House petitions for the administration to do pointless, inane, irrelevant, wasteful, and occasionally illegal things.
The few petitions on serious topics, like drug legalization, that have garnered enough signatures to warrant a response from the White House have been met with dismissive, patronizing, shallow, and (above all) politically safe non-answer answers.
It is clear that this annoying and utterly useless website is designed to nothing more than channel political activism into a cul-de-sac, and therefore we request you stop this irritating sideshow and shut down petitions.whitehouse.gov.