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Originally Posted by Prince
I'm just used to the government (I am referring to how things were in my native country) being very proactive about civic responsibilities.
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That's what I don't understand. After all, it's a legal requirement that must be met or you face jail time or a huge fine. How much effort would it take for the US government to include something like that in information packets for visa applications?
The whole thing reminds me of this passage from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". The main character, Arthur Dent, has woken up to find that his house is to be demolished to make way for a bypass, and he wasn't informed:
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Originally Posted by Douglas Adams
Mr Prosser said, "You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time, you know."
"Appropriate time?" hooted Arthur. "Appropriate time? The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away, of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me."
"But, Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight around to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on a door saying Beware of the Leopard."
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