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Open CRS: Free Government Research Reports
securitas writes "Ted Bridis of the Associated Press reports that more than 8000 Congressional Research Service reports produced exclusively for legislators are now available to the public for free. The Center for Democracy & Technology's Open CRS project is a Web-based central clearinghouse that features several collections of government reports. The research service has '... a staff of more than 700 and a nearly $100 million budget ...' but 'CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.' The Open CRS project wants your help in obtaining and adding reports to the database."
"People have the government they deserve..."
Well, I do have to object to that statement.
The 2000 national election was not decided by the
voters -- it was decided by shady politicians
that illegally disenfranchised tens of thousands
of voters, who used an illegal Florida state law
that violated due process by barring state-wide
ballot recounts, an apathetic US Senate that
refused to protest the election, and a US Supreme
Court. Don't blame THAT election on the voters.
The 2004 national elections were not much better.
The same method of illegally disenfranchising
voters was committed again. But this time, we
had $6 Billion USD worth of electronic voting
machines and electronic accumulators installed,
with untested software, very poor or nonexistent
security, and no paper trail for validating the
election results. If the tabulated votes came
close to matching politically motivated exit
polls, the vote count was deemed "close enough".
When this country gives up on the notion of instant
election returns, and switches back to hand counted
paper ballots, I can almost guarantee that the
election results will not favor the regime that
is currently in power.