Chomsky: Fight back against NSA spying or be 'complicit'

[Maedhros]

23. I don't think anyone is arguing that nothing should be secret.

What is alarming is that our country has drifted into a situation in which nearly everything the Government does is secret - Cheney's energy policy meetings, the TPP negotiations, the legal rationale for the drone wars - but the protections for the privacy of individuals are being systematically destroyed.

This has been the trend for decades, but since 2001 it has accelerated and it is currently at its most pronounced. The current Administration has classified far more documents than any had previously. The current Administration is attempting to criminalize adversarial journalism. The current Administration is pushing to fast-track the secretly-negotiated TPP. And there is no evidence to suggest that the next Administration, whether it is Democratic or Republican, will take any measures to reverse the trend.

There is room for an argument over what should and should not be kept secret by the Government, but the real problem is the big question: what is our Government becoming? What is it now?