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I made no warranty, implied or expressed, as to the quality of any government agency's execution of those regs that the agency is legally required to discharge. Those regs are not `hidden' they appear for anyone to persuse without leaving the desk:
http://www.archives.gov/ (just type CFR into the search - Code Of Federal Regulations) then drill down (most recently changed regs are available through the beta e-reg).
The 2002 Food Safety and Bioterrorism Act didn't raise much of a stink (Yeah, but consider the tenor of the times) but now, 10yrs after 9/11 everyone seems to forget what it was like (wahhabist widgets poisoning our milk! - Oh, My, SAVE US, UNCLE SAM!). So, our legislators acted and, the current bill S510 is nowhere near as onerous or `weasel' worded (the bill in question along with the changes, simply states that it conforms with the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act as amended by the 2002 bioterrorism Act).
Write your congressmen and tell them you want an area set aside for lobbyists. This area will have to have both audio and video recording devices. The only meetings that the member can have with lobbyists must occur in that area; all resulting recordings must be posted to youtube, etc. within 24hr. of the end of the mtg. Also, tell them you want a copy of every piece of legislation to appear with hyperlinks to all conforming/previous legislation and Help Files associated with the bill, etc. Hey, guys, it gets lonely out here.
Badly written law is sometimes a problem but it is the interpretation of the resulting reg and the direction/degree of action, by the agency charged with enforcement, and the subsequent law arising out of judicial action when challenges are mounted that result in some pretty odd results.
When it comes to enforcement it is individual State Laws that are often more `tight' and those agents are always there the `first with the most' Fed enforcement is more often than not subject to the whims of the political party in power. I'd suggest anyone who's interested in reading up on the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (only briefly enforced and both parties had their own reasons for letting it slide).
However, if it wasn't for the strength of the garden clubs/florists (lobby) in the 1940's, Opium Poppies would have been outlawed and, while driving through older, `genteel' neighborhoods of Columbia, Mo, in May, the profusion of flowers wouldn't make it look so much like Little Martha Stewart Afghanistan. Guess no one ever pays attention until they think their ox is going to be gored (or they want their ox to gore another's...).
Re: Lincoln. I'll ask you again: was the 3/5 compromise a government sop to a certain privileged class of businessmen? And, is the 13 Amendment legitimate? As to the 10th - good luck getting another amendment ratified to add the word "expressly" before the word `delegated'. Like some others, this is a lost cause. The Japanese internment? On the one hand, it was not so bright, on the other, it kept many of those folks from being killed by their neighbors.
Bolded: Not a bad idea. Heard about a Congressman - from Michigan, I believe - who posts his votes on Facebook and gives his reasons for voting that way.
The 13th is legit, the 14th is not.
As for the 3/5 clause, what in Heaven's name does that have to do with Lincoln's dictatorship? 10th Amendment? It says powers delegated, and that means DELEGATED, not "powers that by incredible leaps of mind-blowing semantic acrobatics can vaguely be construed to somehow magically belong to the government." It's not a lost cause. Even if it is, I won't give up the fight. It is the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights, and it must be respected!
Yes, dying in a government internment camp is much better than being murdered.
Also, last I checked, it wasn't typical for people to go around killing due to ethnicity in America. Did it happen occasionally? Yes, but not often. Prejudice would be an issue (remember Freedom Fries?), but murder? I don't think so. It's all hypothetical, though.
