Originally Posted by 2lazytothinkofname
You're absolutely right.
No regulations should ever be secret. The TSA should publish everything they do, exactly how they do it, when they do it, why they do it. While we're at it the FBI should be required to publicize every time they start an investigation, can't keep that stuff secret for the citizens. The DEA should be required to disclose who their undercover agents are, again can;t have those goons keeping secrets. The militray should publish all their R&D at once. After all a government agency keeping secrets? Tsk tsk tsk!!!
And while we're at it what's with this security clearance business to work for defence contractors? How dare the government require its citizens to undergo security checks? Fingerprinting simply to get a job? Why that is an outrage and is the first step towards a totalitarian regime,
There's that trademark right-wing hyperbole again.
Of course we want clandestine operations, we simply don't want secret laws. Regulations have the effect of law, you can go to jail for violating a regulation, you can have your property siezed. Regulations should be published and public. Period.
As a self-proclaimed expert on when free citizens have the right to complain, will you please detail for us at what point in the constriction of rights are we permitted to complain? Before or after its too late?