As much as I find most forms of public protest to be ineffective as policy-making or policy analysis tools, the public should be trusted to make such decisions.
House Passes Bill That Will Make Protesting Illegal at Secret Service Covered Events: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/02/houses-passes-new-bill-that-would-make.html
Although the text was public and listed on the usual open democracy and open government sites (e.g., http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h347/text), none of the usual civil liberties organizations appears to have said a thing about it (not that it's their fault for lacking adequate operational or theoretical tools to have intervened here).
The growing erosion of liberties concurrent with the growing number and scale of computer-based democratic movements in the last three decades suggests that we're not going to simply code, publish, or 'open', our way out of this problem.
Could we at least admit that the current approaches to rebuffing a broken system are themselves ineffective, so that such approaches might be more open to criticism and refinement?
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