{"id":8953,"date":"2015-10-28T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:59:16","slug":"usa-today-the-freedom-foyer-fraud-on-our-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/usa-today-the-freedom-foyer-fraud-on-our-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"USA TODAY: The Freedom Foyer Fraud on Our Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA TODAY<\/strong>, October 28, 2015<\/p>\n

Freedom gets a foyer; Liberty gets the shaft<\/a><\/h2>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

The budget agreement<\/a> between President Obama and leaders of the House of Representatives is sparking a conservative firestorm across the land.\u00a0 Newt Gingrich predicts<\/a>\u00a0every Republican presidential candidate in tonight\u2019s debate will oppose the deal \u2014 which a New York Times headline aptly labels \u201ca victory for Obama<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the deal fulfilled one of\u00a0retiring House Speaker John Boehner\u2019s passionate aspirations<\/a>. Section 1201 of the bill decrees<\/a> that \u201c[t]he first floor of the area of the House of Representatives wing of the United States Capitol known as the small House rotunda is designated the \u2018Freedom Foyer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Renaming a few square yards in a government building is being lauded as if it were a grand finale in Boehner\u2019s legislative career. But like many of the purported budget cuts in the budget deal, this christening looks squirrely. Boehner actually designated that turf<\/a> as the \u201cFreedom Foyer\u201d in late 2013 and has touted it sporadically ever\u00a0since.<\/p>\n

Boehner and Republican allies hope that the Freedom Foyer gambit will tamp down conservative outrage<\/a> at their approval of sharply increased federal spending. But the two-year budget deal<\/a> also signals surrender on any broad-based attempt to curb abuses of federal executive agencies for the remainder of Obama\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

The Founding Fathers expected the entire Congress to be a \u201cfreedom foyer\u201d that jealously guarded the people\u2019s rights and liberties against oppression by the executive branch \u2014 the same way that Parliament had defended the English people against tyrannical kings.\u00a0But now citizens are supposed to be content with re-labeling a room as a substitute for Congress actually performing a vital task.<\/p>\n

Perhaps citizens who have been oppressed by the Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency, Transportation Security Administration\u00a0or other heavy-handed agencies can make sacrificial offerings in the Freedom Foyer in lieu of getting help from their member of Congress. Actually, the Capitol Police might descend and quickly handcuff any visitor who did anything more elaborate than curtsying to the busts of foreign dignitaries in that room.<\/p>\n

The Freedom Foyer christening may have been one key to securing enough congressional support to raise the debt limit<\/a> by over a trillion dollars. What will that cost the typical American taxpaying household over their lifetimes? Probably at least $10,000 \u2014 not counting the interest for servicing the debt.\u00a0 How many taxpayers would have voluntarily paid that price for that Capitol honorific? Probably less than 0.01%.<\/p>\n

Besides, designating a room in the Capitol as the Freedom Foyer may have no more lasting impact than renaming a dead-end street for a deceased city council member. After a few years, politicians or bureaucrats can reap another round of applause for re-titling that same street after some other recently-deceased dignitary. Likewise, if Bernie Sanders is elected president with a large Democratic majority in Congress, \u201cFreedom Foyer\u201d could be renamed \u201cEquality Place\u201d on his first week in office. Or Hillary could rename it the “Sacred Sisterhood Square.” Or Trump could label it the “Trump Mini-Plaza.”<\/p>\n

The Capitol room re-labeling ploy is typical of how politicians nowadays invoke freedom in lieu of leashing Leviathan. As a result, politicians prattle about freedom at the same time that tax exactions, prison populations\u00a0and regulatory decrees have soared.\u00a0Washington has been hollowing out the meaning of freedom for decades, using the term as a coat of varnish for any government program that seemed otherwise dubious. As a result, few people may realize the absurdity of the christening curtsy in a bill that unleashes federal spending.<\/p>\n

While some congressmen believe the Freedom Foyer\u00a0is a substantive achievement, far more Americans will be directly impacted by another small provision in the budget deal.\u00a0Congress is authorizing debt collectors<\/a> to begin making automated calls to cell phones to hound people about their alleged IRS debts.\u00a0Federal revenuers have a long history of wrongfully demanding payoffs<\/a> from innocent taxpayers, snaring billions of dollars that citizens do not owe. Congress rubber-stamped robocalls for tax collection despite the profusion of telemarketer scam artists<\/a> who are already falsely claiming to represent the IRS to frighten people out of their money.<\/p>\n

It would be naive to expect Congress to stand up for the rights of average Americans against a federal agency commandeering their assets.\u00a0But perhaps congressional leaders will offer us another Solomonic solution such as renaming the Internal Revenue Service the \u201cFreedom Finance Agency.\u201d And there might be some Republicans who would expect Americans to be grateful when Washington throws them that bone.<\/p>\n

James Bovard\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<\/em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a> and a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Twitter @jimbovard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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