Reply #155: Transparancy about these two illegal wars needs to get out

[tavalon]

If anything fluffy like "so and so swears like a sailor" comes out with it, then I'm left to wonder why the fuck it was classified in the first place? I'm not an absolutest. I recognize that there are actually things a government would need to keep secret for national security but I believe that's a slippery slope and we're currently floundering in the mud at the bottom. Dumbass Dubya and Darth Cheney took secrecy to mean "hide anything, anywhere, anytime, because we can". This administration has followed along. Not even marginally okay in a supposed Democracy (and I'm taking liberties here - I know that we are supposedly a Representative Republic and are likely actually closer to a Corporatocracy. Funny, I seem to be blanking on what the term is for the merger of government with corporations.). The amount of stuff that this country deems secret would make sense in a Totalitarian government, but we don't have that, do we?

My grandmother, God rest her soul, use to tell me that if I was doing something that I would be ashamed to have God see, don't do it. I think the same should be followed by Governments. No, I don't want church and state merging, for any of you out there who don't parse nuance.

The Rumsfeld* Doctrine states that it isn't the act that is illegal, it's the recording of the act that's illegal. I don't support that point of view at all. In that case, I counter with, shine the light on all illegal acts perpetrated by our government, since they can't seem to follow my grandmother's edict.





*No link for this term because it's a term I coined, along with the definition, in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib atrocities.