Comment by briffle
2 years ago
Would you prefer elected bureacrats with guns? That scares me more.
Perhaps we just go with rock solid transparency laws...
2 years ago
Would you prefer elected bureacrats with guns? That scares me more.
Perhaps we just go with rock solid transparency laws...
It's a sad day when HN is defending the Patriot Act.
It's more that your parent comment was disingenuous.
At least elected bureaucrats are theoretically accountable to the electorate. The gripe comes from things like the unelected bureaucrats at the US Department of Justice deciding that as part of implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act, there are only two limited and inadequate questions you can ask of someone with an apparently bogus service dog or else. That rule didn't come from the people who wrote the law.
In practice that shouldn’t matter, as the law states that any service animal can be turned away so long as the business provides accommodation to the human (which is the point of the limited questions).
The fact this rarely happens is more due to people not actually knowing the law and typically wanting to avoid potential conflict.
"people not knowing the law" can be a symptom of bureaucracy though. How many pages of law do you think exist to open a bagel shop or add a room to your house in SFO?
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Those unelected bureaucrats play by the rules set by elected bureaucrats, though.
> That rule didn't come from the people who wrote the law.
But lawmakers can write a law to address that.