When those in power are able to decide what laws to enforce and upon whom they are to be enforced, the clearest, most unambiguous statutes aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Ain’t that right, Hillary?
That’s one of the flies in the ointment re the Covention of States. Yeah, we can have new amendments and regulations restricting the Government, that they ‘have to’ abide by.
But who’s going to enforce them if, make that WHEN, they’re broken?
To paraphrase: What form of government have you created? A BANANA republic, if you can keep it...
When those in power are able to decide what laws to enforce and upon whom they are to be enforced, the clearest, most unambiguous statutes aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Ain’t that right, Hillary?
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I got nothing back except an excuse letter from my last FOIA request ... to the SEC ... they simply don’t enforce the record-keeping requirements in various laws and therefore I was “SOL” in getting the data they were required to gather but failed to do so...
Could it be that we’re so used to being fed minimal information from our government, that we cannot imagine what true openness would be like?
Economic statistics, for example, are clouded in secrecy. And yet the IRS collects very detailed records on citizens that if thoroughly anonymized could point to many business opportunities or regional pockets of the country where business conditions are alarming.
Ideally, a lot of this statistically data should be put in a huge big data system.
Immigration, economic stats, employment records, health care stats, criminal justice data, there’s tons of data to be gathered and examined.
And yet what did the mainstream media complain about today? President-elect Trump is having a private dinner party with his family in New York, and the press they were not invited.
Time to open up the our government records so the Washington press corps has more serious “news” to write about.