Members of Congress and their staffs lying to the American public?

The entire nation is abuzz regarding the Intelligence Reform bill currently before the Congress.  A number of media organizations have pushed the legislation on the American people everyday and night without ceasing for the last several weeks.  The President spoke over the weekends making remarks that he wanted Congress to pass the legislation before Christmas while still others are fighting the bill as nothing but the creation of a giant bureaucracy that will actually hinder intelligence gathering at best and destroy constitutional liberties at worst.

With all of the rancor over a bill that justifiably should be questioned due to it’s proposed far reaching powers many have phoned their respective elected officials and have been told the Congressman or Senator has carefully reviewed the bill.  However IRN News has just learned that copies of the bill only arrived at Congressional offices late Tuesday afternoon.  This immediately begs the question as to just why would elected officials tell their own constituents they have read or reviewed a the bill when obviously they have not even seen a copy of the legislation?

With proposals such as a national ID card, the complete change of the way a nation collects intelligence both foreign and domestic, as well as provisions that could adversely effect a citizen’s employment, one would expect their representatives to read the bill before they hurriedly pass such legislation.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the bill stating, “This is America, not Soviet Russia.  The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do so.”

Some historians would equate this to the greased skids of he Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that passed at a Congressional Christmas break with few officials noticing and fewer actually voting on the measure.  No one can argue that the Federal Reserve Act changed American lives forever.

Congressman Paul also noted, “Those who are willing allow the government to establish a Soviet-style internal passport system because they think will make us safer are terribly mistaken.”