Yeah right!
Yesterday we had an interesting conversation that makes a joke out of the chief idiots supposed Openness Bill! Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. States, not the federal government, were charged with protecting individuals against criminal force and fraud. For the first time, a government was created solely to protect the rights, liberties, and property of its citizens. Any government coercion beyond that necessary to secure those rights was forbidden, both through the Bill of Rights and the doctrine of strictly enumerated powers. This reflected the founders’ belief that democratic government could be as tyrannical as any King. Few Americans understand that all government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes.
If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.
All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running roughshod over the Constitution, by a bought and paid for media that serves as propagandists for a regime of war criminals, and by a public who have forsaken their Founding Fathers. Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created by the hoax of "terrorism." It has turned out that headline terrorist events since 9/11 have been orchestrated by the US government.
For example, the alleged terrorist plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower was the brainchild of an FBI agent who searched out a few disaffected people to give lip service to the plot devised by the FBI agent. He arrested his victims, whose trial ended in acquittal and mistrial.Raising doubts among Americans about the government is not a strong point of the corporate media. Americans live in a world of propaganda designed to secure their acquiescence to war crimes, torture, searches and police state measures, military aggression, hegemony and oppression. This is all true and this ridiculous Bill will change nothing as Bush the Decider will continue to dictate what he feels you should know and what he says is only for his eyes.
Bush is supposedly restoring Government openness! that will never happen under Bush. This editorial says The terrorists lost one recently when the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that more forcefully makes it the official policy of the U.S. government that the information that belongs to the people will be available to them. what? Some might have been forgiven for thinking that such had long been official policy, specifically under the old Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Bush is supposedly restoring Government openness! that will never happen under Bush. This editorial says The terrorists lost one recently when the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that more forcefully makes it the official policy of the U.S. government that the information that belongs to the people will be available to them. what? Some might have been forgiven for thinking that such had long been official policy, specifically under the old Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
But after the attacks of 9/11, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft put out new FOIA rules that encouraged all government agencies to err on the side of secrecy if the release of any requested information might conceivably create a security risk. That crackdown on freedom was just the sort of thing that the terrorists were hoping would happen, a radical departure from our traditions of openness, made in fearful response to acts of terror. The new Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act, makes it clear that government information requested by the media, interest groups, concerned citizens, Cub Scouts or garden clubs is to be presumed open and available unless someone in government can make a compelling and specific case that its release could be a threat to national security.
The open information requirements apply to nonproprietary information in the possession of government contractors. The new law also sets up an office of FOIA ombudsman to make sure that requests for information are handled quickly and correctly. Of course, the current administration and those that follow will always be tempted to hide embarrassing information behind the national security cloak. But granting an exception for legitimate defense secrets need not be a license for secret government. And a free government worth defending will trust its own people with the truth. That's true but Bush is the decider and has to hide what he is really doing and this will change nothing as coercion prevails. restoring openness my eye
Bush signed the bill without comment in one of his final decisions of the year. The legislation is aimed at reversing an order by former Attorney General John Ashcroft after the 9/11 attacks in which he instructed agencies to lean against releasing information when there was uncertainty about how doing so would affect national security. The law also restores a presumption of a standard that orders government agencies to release information on request unless there is a finding that disclosure could do harm. Government transparency joke
This is just another facade. This will change nothing in this coercive mis-Administration. Bush only signed the bill because it is worthless! He is the sole Decider what he can hide from us so he can follow his hidden agenda. This is just another bad joke and will change nothing!
