{"id":631,"date":"2012-03-10T19:52:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2012-03-10T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T00:53:46","slug":"freedom-of-information-act-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-such-a-democratic-idea-that-our-government-has-transformed-it-into-an-unworkable-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Information Act \u2013 it\u2019s such a democratic idea that our government has transformed it into an unworkable sham."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will my application under the Freedom of Information Act reveal any records for Paul Sheldon?\u00a0 Pointless \u2013 if records existed, they would likely be classified as \u201cblackballed\u201d (exempt).<!--more--> Folks I know who clearly would be expected to be on file hear back that nothing was found. \u00a0The explanation given for nothing on file for Occupy is that this is not a \u201clie\u201d, but there may be information that is in an unsearchable file and so it is \u201ctrue\u201d that nothing was found. What an Orwellian double-speak fraud. Nacht und Nabel &#8212; the infamous Nazi Night and Fog response to informational requests. You are told that no records exist, and simply making a request can get you listed, then and now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/revealed-fbis-secretive-practice-blackballing-files\/1326811421\">http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/revealed-fbis-secretive-practice-blackballing-files\/1326811421<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will my application under the Freedom of Information Act reveal any records for Paul Sheldon?\u00a0 Pointless \u2013 if records existed, they would likely be classified as \u201cblackballed\u201d (exempt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}