Whereas one person could never read it all.
This has to frighten promulgators of a plethora of regulations which gain the weight of law unchallenged because no one knows they exist.
We (bloggers, FReepers, et.al.) are the serfs encroaching on their fiefdoms, complete with archaic lighting devices and rudimentary farm implements, and they are all scared for their jobs.
The MSM is more than willing to help them, just so they do not lose control of their one raison d'etre, namely: controlling what you and I think.
The two, media and bureaucrats, have had a cozy relationship until of late, where one creates the panic, the other the solution; sort of a co-dependant Munchausen's Syndrome.
If they weren't so Hell bent on eliminating God from the discussion, they'd be praying He forbid us from sentinent interaction. Perhaps if they spent more time praying, they would realize they are fighting a war they have already lost.
Bingo
Well said, Joe.