The 1966 Freedom of Information Act is often used to cover up NONFEASANT, MISFEASANT, AND MALFEASANT government behavior. A functional system is needed.
The FOIA system should provide taxpayers a convenient means of communication with government officials for obtaining information regarding government activities. Instead, FOIA helps rogue government officials obscure information and hide less than acceptable activity from citizen view. This denial of accountability is wrong. American citizens are the sovereign owners of their republic. Government records are proprietary to legal citizens. Government records are not proprietary to officials or employees paid to work for taxpayers. Taxpayers are the boss. Abuse of power by government officials MUST stop now.
Sadly, no longer taught in our schools, the United States Constitution is historically unique. All powers temporarily lent to the U.S. government by the people are Constitutionally authorized through consent of the governed. Powers lent to government by the people can be expanded or taken away by the people via the Article 5 amendment process. The bicameral houses of the U.S. legislature for example, are limited to eighteen powers specified in Article 1, Section 8. Those limited powers can only be removed or added to by amending the Constitution per Article 5.
Somewhere on the order of 75% to 90% of all federal U.S. legislation IS NOT AUTHORIZED by the U.S. Constitution. Unauthorized legislation is illegal. Rogue elements in government withholding information from taxpayers and even from Congress to obscure such illegality is nothing new. Long before 2018’s FASAB 56 streamlined concealment of government financial shenanigans from public scrutiny, the Freedom of Information Act streamlined concealment of all government records from taxpayer scrutiny—in claimed defense of our right-to-know, of course. For more on FASAB 56, see Solari Report_FASAB 56 .
I get that an appropriate procedure for requesting information is necessary. If FOIA information requests were responded to in a reasonably precise or timely fashion, I wouldn’t criticize the system. BUT that is not the case, is it. Hence, my FOIA complaint is couched as an accusation against UniParty corruption protection for elites, corporatist shot callers, and government pawns.
The idea behind FOIA is simple. Bad optics arise when privileged government pawns tell taxpayers to buzz off when questions are asked. In the extreme case, rusty Main Street pitchforks could be shined up. Therefore, instead of foolishly risking revolt by just saying, “take a hike little person”; rogue elements play the long con by creating a FOIA program claiming to protect the Little People’s right-to-know. Then the little Main Street suckers can spend the next century uselessly filling out FOIA forms to beg for information legal taxpayers already own.
Yea, it’s stupid is as stupid does, (H/T to 1994’s Forrest Gump), but by clever intent, the long con ensures dumbed-down education, compound interest shackles, regulatory burdens, endless wars, and unconstitutional taxation keep hard working people too busy and too anxious to notice. How about an example showing how smoothly, and with a UniParty smirk, the well-oiled FOIA machine obscures information from the brainwashed public.
President, John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Whatever the reason, we the American people are not happy about President Kennedy’s murder or its coverup. More than sixty in-our-face-dubious years later, lies and incoherency still cloud that brazen coup d’état. Main Street doesn’t know what happened that day, but we do know the pathetic, lone gunman story conjured up by parasites hiding inside and outside U.S. government is a poorly crafted fabrication. How handy is it, that as questions multiplied after November 1963, how expediently the corruption nurturing BS we call FOIA WAS ENACTED in July 1966, less than three-years later; then signed into law by Lyndon Baines Johnson on July 5, 1967 “to protect and nurture the people’s right to know” we are told?
I don’t claim ASSASSINATION–FOIA Dots connect but do find it curious why some jerk or jerks in government woke up one hungover morning thinking information should be hidden from taxpayers. Do we imagine this absurdity evolved from thin air and coincidence? Maybe space aliens demanded FOIA be enacted? What should we think here, or is it better for taxpayers not to think at all as elite power mongers and criminals in government prefer?
FOIA is deceitfully abused as a powerful weapon launched against the owners of the U.S. government, i.e., we the people who by our consent ordained our American republic. Seditious and even treasonous parasites are now burrowed deep into the layered guts of our bloated government. Accountability is AWOL. Privileged parasitic pawns working for powerful dynastic financial interests deeply embedded behind the scenes since Lincoln’s War and its twelve years of Reconstruction, have deceptively removed constitutional checks and balances from day-to-day operations. This subversion destroyed the Rule of Law, thereby morphing representative republican government into a malicious Administrative Dictatorship feared by the entire world. All of this harm has been done by abusing the good faith and credit of hard-working Americans.
Taxpayers like me have been pleading ignorance and innocence since 1877 and more so since 1913 but can deny the obvious no longer. The American middle-class MUST with God’s grace stand up to This Globalist Beast created in our good name. We MUST stop these atrocities for ourselves, and for future generations. Kids around the world MUST not grow up as fearful cyborg serfs confined by tyrannical digital chains and psychopathic nanotechnology while being poisoned by fake medicine, industrial farm garbage, and toxic food processing.
The financial dynastic family cabal functions as a Global Syndicate by syndicating evil around the globe “doing as they wilt whenever and however, they wilt” in service to agendas concocted by their Dark Lord—agendas focused on wealth confiscation, power, and destruction of all creation. Along those lines among too many crimes to list, four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln (1865); James Garfield (1881); William McKinley (1901); and John F. Kennedy (1963). These four in-our-face assassinations expose just the tiny tip of a wide-ranging, very dark historic iceberg. New World Order psychopaths are busy, so there’s never a shortage of black activities running around the American Titanic requiring protective cover. Asking legitimate questions is not evidence of conspiracy theory.
Note: “Conspiracy Theory” is not a term coined by rogue CIA assets, but the now unabashedly treasonous CIA and their complicit Mockingbird Media parrots sure did popularize the term. BAD PEOPLE holding influential power use big unaccountable governments to do BAD THINGS. Hiding this harmful government activity requires garbage like FOIA and FASAB 56 to limit exposure of crimes from the sight of prying eyes. This is best accomplished via deceitful programs claiming benefits for the little people while delivering harm. Here is a link to the amended 2016 FOIA language, 5 U.S.C. § 552. https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-552
FOIA sounds like a swell idea, until we read the language and examine its exemptions and exclusions. There are nine FOIA exemptions and three FOIA law enforcement record exclusions. FOIA is a con job perpetrated by Bad People who do Bad Things.
Here’s a link to the nine exemptions and three exclusions:
https://www.fincen.gov/foia-exemptions-and-exclusions
If you read these carefully worded exemptions and exclusions, you’ll notice that nearly anything any rogue government or media pawn is told to cover-up can be tied to a FOIA exemption or exclusion. The system hides information beautifully because who dares question the paucity of requested information provided? Certainly not White House pawns or members of our captured bicameral Congress. Certainly not heavily compensated Mockingbird Media parrots. No hard questions are asked by those we are indoctrinated to trust as reliable institutions.
Only the little people stunned by the stupidity of official narrative will ask questions. Commoners frequently wonder how we are getting screwed this time – so FOIA protocols force cannon fodder commoners to BEG government liars paid for and working for the commoners in the first place, for information commoners already own. In six months, six years, or never, the persistent FOIA request might be answered in part—the rest of course MUST remain hidden. It’s national security, you know.
It’s far past time for American taxpayers to regain critical thinking skills, abandon the treasonous UniParty, then take appropriate action enforcing self-governance. The American people cannot govern themselves or their government employees and contractors without useful information. We use our Constitution to enforce our unalienable rights as human beings, or American liberty dies a miserable nanotechnology death. If American freedom dies, world freedom is lost along with it. This is not acceptable. How about we work together and help each other choose abundant life for everyone.