I still think that current developments show that Warren Young was correct. Reason usually does not work with bureaucrats with an agenda; they have to be clubbed into submission. As part of government, they are tentacles of a coercive order anyway--and they know it.
So, the question becomes: Is there a politician or a bureaucrat above the bureaucrats in question who can be gotten to, and who will force them to change their decision? If not, the game is lost.
Sam Bostaph