The legal foundation says it was forced to file suit against EPA, the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and the Agriculture Department's Forest Service when the agencies did not respond to FOIA requests filed in October 2001.
Translation: Our taxpayer dollars are funding a representative republic in which the laws passed by our elected representatives are being arrogantly ignored by high-level federal agencies.
Conclusion: The federal government has become so corrupt, and has declared itself so immune to Constitutional rule, that it believes it may ignore its own laws at will (provided the ignoring is for a good leftist cause).
Solution: The American public needs to get out from in front of its televisions/video games/sports events/rock concerts and start paying attention to the fact that its hard-earned, easily-siphoned-by-Big-Brother money is being used (unconstitutionally) to fund insidious programs whose sole purpose is to bring our republic down.
Chance of solution coming to pass: About the same as the survival of a snowball in hell.
At press time, none of the three agencies had responded to the FOIA request, but one source at the LLF says EPA has been most willing to at least look at what information it could provide.
You don't suppose this source at the LLF expected that particular comment to mollify those of us who would like to hold the spenders of our taxpayer dollars accountable? That comment is tantamount to saying, 'Joanie's financial records have been subpoenaed in conjunction with the embezzlement case which has been filed against her, and she has been kind enough to at least peruse them and consider handing them over.'
The EPA has a history of fighting to prevent Mark Levin from obtaining documentation (Carol Browner's deleted files being probably the most overt....the remainder being marked by simple arrogant obfuscation). One of the standby excuses (usually accompanied by surprised hand-wringing) for leftists in government who risk getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar are claims of ignorance or incompetence. If the public is vigilant, and if they seek to be good stewards of their tax money, there comes a time when a mountain of ignorance and incompetence begins to look more like deliberate obstruction. And where there is deliberate obstruction there is something to hide. If the Clinton years taught us nothing else, it should have taught us that.
Yes, the corruption is entrenched. But we haven't yet reached the point in this country where a good dose of public outrage won't at least have the corruptors thinking twice before thumbing their noses at us as they spend our own dollars on programs that will kill us. Trouble is, the American public doesn't appear to be capable of summoning the energy for outrage against anything less heinous than 9/11. Our outrage threshold needs to be lowered significantly, or, when we finally do summon the energy, we may find that outrage is no longer allowed.
That wasn't too funny was it?
I just can't get a laugh out of this no matter how hard I try.