Online petition - Skimming through the General Voice of Humanity

We live in a constitutional democracy, one which springs with ease on the footboards of opinion-sharing. There are innumerable ways to make oneself heard, not as a low cough from a distant galaxy but as a powerful voice hanging in the air. Petition arguably is the best way to put on national display what was once strictly within the domains of personal feelings.

Since its inception, Petitions have caused a nationwide arrest of imagination. Few draw great signatures; others are only ably to mop-up moderate reading. Perhaps this is attributable partially to the content and partially to the advertising that goes into it. For the success of the petition it is imperative to have clear defined thoughts drafted clearly. People going through it generally have packed lives in today’s world, so they may not be able to go through the whole hog. It is important to arrive at the goal right at the outset of the petition. The petition should not have typo errors and should be duly proofread. Any such negligence invariably mars its cause. If one makes one’s mind on a petition, it becomes very important to propose it in a format which is appealing, or else it gathers dust with time. A petition should be networked to as many people as possible, one should take the pain to personally send it along to the maximum people and ask them in turn to do the needful. Grounded on the goals that such petitions wish to achieve, they might be confirmed to a social community or maneuvered through an online network. Similar minded people can reach out to same tracts of reasoning and goals by using places like Myspaces for forums and relevant discussions. People are generally full of mirth signing up for a program they believe in, and in that case they spread it with a genuine heart to as many people as they can. Sometimes this act can be really redemptive.

One can also pass a word through YouTube. If the advertising bit is taken care of with something akin to religious zeal, search engines can mop it all up in a very successful way. Search engines may look like going a little over budget at times but then few helps here and there and the cause keeps floating. One can also connect to the diverse online forums specializing in spreading the posting. The petition automatically gets a burst of life in many untouched corners. It breathes then in many hitherto unknown places.

By creating such great online means, we let our petitions enter a world of high networking. At the same time it is important to look out for as many offline avenues as possible. Propagating through Radio stations and painting the town with myriad posters rooting for your cause are just a few means to propel the endeavor further.

One must grasp the oft-laid virtues of politeness. It helps them make greater headway. Looking at a vast multitude of humanity, it is only natural to expect that there will be many people sharing our thoughts, the cause of our petitions; but they can immediately be put off if they see anything like rudeness in our approach towards them. It makes them beat the cause and move ahead in a different direction. People will sign on petitions if they feel our zeal is supplemented by our politeness. That way they feel the cause lies in the mind of a rational, composed person. Best petitions are those which do not ostracize other ideas and take them along as an addition to our independent enquiry into a cause. Moreover the petition must be well written and intelligently crafted. With the kind of instruments that we can succor from today, a petition can really be like embarking on the greatest journeys of our lives. If drafted properly, it might just reach out to the masses and later the higher echelons. The nation finally might come to a standstill and such a phenomenon is not unprecedented.

A petition is either a voice in protest or a throat-call in support of a thesis. It can be about a person, a place, a standpoint. But it is very important to abide to the various directives. Not just the formatting and content related ones that we talked about. It should also see eye to eye with the local jurisdictional authorities. The cause of the petition has to pass through the attestation procedures of the local council or some other judicial functionary in the hierarchy. The local government can also help us in tabulating the prerequisites. How much support we need for the petition to pass registers? How and what may be the best ways to procure them? Not getting through the minimum requisite signatures can doom the prospects of a petition in the budding stage.

What’s stopping us? The visions that we could stand up to at the dawn of our lives can’t fade in the dust of our mundane days and nights. There is a cause which sustains existence, a reason we can bind with, and seek redemption. The petitions help us throw our voice amidst a sea of voices. It has to have a composite, distinct frequency to rise from the bulk of other petition but this is possible and this has been done before. Nothing would give us more pleasure than to know that we are heard. That the world has resonated to the petition we drafted. Let us wake to the light of that cause.