US Government

Now I'm not one to go about sticking up for federal employees, as I worked on-site as a contractor at a federal facility, where some of the folks I worked with were what I termed "professional welfare recipients" due to their utter lack of work (not all of them, but close to 40% of the folks I knew). However, I will defend them against what I found from the Environmental Resource Center, and it's a doozy:

Federal climate, weather, and marine scientists will be subject to new restrictions as to what they can say to the media or in public, according to agency documents released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under rules posted last week, these federal scientists must obtain agency pre-approval to speak or write, whether on or off-duty, concerning any scientific topic deemed “of official interest.”

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Where There Is No Rule Of Law, There Is No Law And Order (Iraq in Chaos)
by Marshall Adame
January 18, 2007

The US plan for Iraq did not, until very recently, put any great emphasis on establishing, or reinstating the Rule of Law in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain, particularly in Baghdad, the capitol city of Iraq. For almost four years a sense of anarchy has reigned in Iraq. Bush administration policy, through Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provincial Authority in 2003, dissolved, without any forward planning, the very institutions in Iraq that could have represented a structural sense, or perception of Law and Order after the chaos initiated by the fall of Saddam.

The immediate aftermath of a government having been toppled is usually lawlessness, crime, mayhem and chaos. From the onset of the occupation of Iraq it was evident that little or no planning had been done regarding, post Saddam, civil order or civil welfare actions for the Iraqi citizens.