>It's funny you mention the food safety bill - just spent a few weeks researching that and whether or not it pertains to home-grown or small farms and supposedly (sneaky stuff going on so no guarantee or level of comfort with that) not. It's meant for resellers (again supposedly). You are correct that the number of laws being passed quietly with no fanfare or prior knowledge is astounding. For a govt that promised visibility it is amazingly cloaked. wouldn't want to broadcast it too loudly though (although I've posted a few here) - the current government is even less friendly about that than the previous one and here, you only get called an extreme rightist (if you disagree with anything) or a racist.

Under that previous government you'd get called unamerican, or unpatriotic, or soft on terrorism or something like that. Under Milošević, you'd get called traitor and/or foreign mercenary. Under communists, you'd get called an element (of... nobody seems to remember what, probably an "inserted foreign element"), or technoliberal, or statist, or stalinist, or whichever was the label of the day. The common line is this: you are out of the discussion, and not only there is no need for them to explain what they are doing, there's also no need for you to explain anything - your guilt is clear without any need to prove it.