6 more journalists arrested in Ferguson protests

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7. What do you expect? The Obama administration itself has attacked journalists including

Greenwald, Risen and Assange and their sources. If the US intelligence agencies and the military can prevent the press from obtaining information that the public needs to know in order to vote intelligently, why shouldn't the local police?

I don't know all the facts about what happened in Ferguson. The story is very confused because the police have been so secretive about what really happened. But I do know that secrecy at any level, even in the family, causes mistrust and dissension and ultimately division.

If we are to have a representative government that answers to the people, we cannot have government secrecy at any level other than what is absolutely essential and minimal for the protection of the country. Any secrecy beyond that minimum is incompatible with what we claim to be as a nation.

Goes for Ferguson. Goes for Washington, D.C. Goes for the world as far as American involvement is concerned. You work for the government. You get a steady paycheck, civil service rights and a pension -- you are honest and open with the American people. No secrets when it comes to public business. You are our employee whether you are a general, a CIA officer, a senator, a judge or the president. Same for sheriffs and mayors and the whole lot of them.

This sheriff seems to be a law unto himself. Who is in charge of him? To whom does he answer? He needs to do a better job answering to the public.