| Comment Number: | OL-10503114 |
| Received: | 3/4/2005 8:41:30 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
The NSPS initiative is a flagrant attempt to dismantle our Union protections and it is being wrapped up in our American flag to make it seem more acceptable. Despite the label and the rhetoric, NSPS has absolutely nothing to do with national security and everything to do with facilitating the potential to abuse workers in any way it suits the government, at any time and for whatever purposes it chooses. I can think of no system that would better nurture a good-ole-boy network; discriminations of every kind could thrive with no legal recourse or threat of recourse available to rein it in. Due process would be a thing of the past, as would the fear management has felt of it. Absolute authority? That is just about as un-American as you could possibly get. To believe that the same management who could instigate a problem for a federal employee could possibly provide that same employee with an impartial, managerial review panel (with absolute, final and unchallengeable authority) would be the epitome of naiveté. NSPS makes management the lawmaker, the law enforcer and the judge of their own laws. That is putting too much faith in the hands of the entity that has already proven itself to be untrustworthy and abusive in the past. We need our checks and balances and we need to be free from fears if we really want to achieve national security. Think about it; there can exist no more diabolically opposed words than mistrust and security. Mistrust is the mortal enemy of security.