Fed Court: Just changed interpretation of Espionage Act to cover leaks that are NOT Harmful To USA

[JDPriestly]

48. Good points.

And later in this thread, I mention the damage secrecy and the Espionage, Patriot and similar acts do to the balance of powers.

These acts silence our members of Congress as well as our conscientious public servants. They are repressive and anti-democratic. We don't need them, and we shouldn't have them.

National security, protecting national security. What do those slogans mean?

What is the nation?

Is it we the people?

Or is it the elite who pay for our election campaigns and tell us whom we can vote for?

Security? For what or whom?

For the defense industry or for the American people.

More and more, our defense sector is a bunch of computers and sophisticated equipment, and the system seems more interested in protecting the security of those computers and that equipment than in the things we really need for our national security, that is the security of the people, like clean water, safe streets and bridges, good schools, jobs including industrial jobs, clean air, low energy costs, etc.