Voting on the unknown part two

Years ago I did a post on the government voting "blind" on bills. Bills so big that they could not possibly have read it. Even a Readers Digest condenced version would have been to big.

Now our representatives have admitted that they are voting on secret bills that they have not read, or even attempted to read.

Nearly all members of the House of Representatives opted out of a chance to read this year's classified intelligence bill, and then voted on secret provisions they knew almost nothing about.

The bill, which passed by 327 to 96 in April, authorized the Bush administration's plans for fighting the war on terrorism. Many members say they faced an untenable choice: Either consent to a review process so secretive that they could never mention anything about it in House debates, under the threat of prosecution, or vote on classified provisions they knew nothing about.

Most chose to know nothing.

The article said that only about 12 took the time to read the secret parts of the bill. Out of 423 that voted only 12 read the parts that you and I would go to jail if we tried to get a copy.

Voting blind is bad, voting ignorant is reason enough hang them.