On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 12:14 AM 6/20/97 -0400, Charles Platt wrote:
I'm not saying I _want_ an agency making decisions for us; only that it would be slightly less hideously exasperating than our present situation, where technoliterates are being ruled by technoilliterates.
I'm not sure anymore who wrote what, but I think the idea of having another three-letter agency involved with this is very dangerous. Lets take the almost unlimited abuses of the FDA, BATF, IRS etc. These agencies have been assigned law enforcement powers by proxy. The laws they enforce are administrative law. There is nothing to stop them from declaring administrative regs and then calling out the jack-booted nazi's to enforce them. Tell me this isn't true. Plenty of cases of the FDA and BATF doing just that. Have a better one, Jim Burnes