Odd how that works
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Ever notice how lots of nonsense becomes law. And no one notices while it’s happening? It’s a definite trend.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:29 am
“Openness and Transparency” goes under the bus….
July 29th, 2010 at 10:37 am
No bill should consist of more than 100 double-spaced pages – if it needs more than that, someone is burying something they don’t want noticed in there…I’m just sayin’. Sigh.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Like Nancy Pelosi likes to remind everyone, you’ll find out what’s in the piece of legislation AFTER they pass it. Our government has been taken over by folks who hate the republican form of government which works withing the restraints of our constitution.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Transparency you can believe in!
July 30th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Can’t say I’m terribly surprised. What else did people expect when they trusted a bunch of arrogant elites to radically reorganize a large part of society by making laws they would have no real power to contest, and that none of the drafters had even read?
July 30th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Has anyone on our side of the ‘Sphere posted a “Dictatorship Clock”? You know, like the “doomsday clock” the anti-nuke people used to maintain before blogs and blogging?
It’s what we need. Something to list each of these incremental steps towards dictatorship. I’d host it as a subsidiary of Rivrdog Blog except I SUCK at doing blog design, and would need a graphics coder to get it running.