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Getting Your Government Files Via the FOIA
An anonymous reader writes "The Bad Guys blog is marking America's third annual Sunshine Week: 'a national effort to cast light onto the growing recesses of government secrecy'. US News is offering up the latest information on the Freedom of Information Act, with links to filing FOI requests to US states, the federal government, and 67 other countries. 'Often the records can be obtained by simply asking for them, but since 9/11, federal agencies have grown increasingly stubborn about what they release. A just-released survey by the National Security Archive found that only 1 in 5 federal agencies meets congressionally mandated requirements for online information access. There's hope, though: A new bill is making its way through the House of Representatives, with bipartisan backing, that would strengthen the FOIA, one of a host of open government measures being looked at by the new Congress.'"
That's one of the many reasons I own a gun.
It's one of the reasons that I try to be civil and friendly to the cops. If they feel like they are part of the same community as me, they're more likely to voluntarily 'do a bit more than they have to' to help me.
Too basd you have to, in effect, bribe them in order to get the protection your taxes pay for.
Too bad that demanding that they do their jobs will only cause them to provoke you into an escalation where they can really fuck you over.
Too bad that you have to knuckle under to the fucking nazis to avoid their wrath.
Never forget: To a cop, there are only three kinds of people in the world -- cops, cops' families and suspects.