Posted on Oct 15, 2015
Should the Government protect citizens or should it sucumb to lobbiest pressure?
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Purpose for this post is two-fold:
1. To raise awareness of an issue that affects us all.
2. To get your opinion/feed back on a recent event where the FBI pulls an alert because of political pressure from bankers.
The FBI posted an online advisory about vulnerabilities with new chip-enabled credit cards, but then removed the message on Friday, less than a day later, following concerns from U.S. bankers that back chip cards.
1. To raise awareness of an issue that affects us all.
2. To get your opinion/feed back on a recent event where the FBI pulls an alert because of political pressure from bankers.
The FBI posted an online advisory about vulnerabilities with new chip-enabled credit cards, but then removed the message on Friday, less than a day later, following concerns from U.S. bankers that back chip cards.
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The government at all levels should do what a reasonable job of protecting its citizens LTC (Join to see).
Police and other emergency personnel should not be forced to succumb to lobbyist, political or other special interest group pressure which would interfere with them doing their duties.
Police and other emergency personnel should not be forced to succumb to lobbyist, political or other special interest group pressure which would interfere with them doing their duties.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC Stephen F. Military has safeguards in place for Medical and Law Enforcement personnel who have to deal with higher ranking personnel on a professional level. Sad that the government doesn't have the same safeguards.
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LTC (Join to see) The government doesn't protect us anyway. It doesn't surprise me that a government entity would cave under pressure from an industry.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill guess I am the perpetual optimist, I expect people to do what's right because its the right thing to do and the government entities should be setting the standard.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC (Join to see) - It SHOULD work just like that. I find that I am more saddened by the state of our government than I am angry.
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That is the underlying problem. Lobbyists. Amazing that in a democracy a special interest group that can be as small as 1.6 percent of the population has a larger voice in congress than an overwhelming majority of the rest of the 300,000,000 voices crying foul? These politicians are crooks they are corrupt they aren't in it anymore for the love of their country only to line their pockets. Whatever happened to the good old days when one could hurl heads of cabbage and rotten tomatoes at the offenders head??
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CSM Charles Hayden
PV2 Scott Goodpasture Which talking head refers to lobbyists as 4th branch of government?
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