Evidently we don't have an issue with excessive government secrecy

[noise]

Our media tells us the truth--the full truth. Our government wouldn't dream of abusing national security classification procedures. And there is no such thing as a hidden agenda.

[msongs]

1. and our war crimes stopped the minute bush was out of office nt

[noise]

2. Enough of that!

We've moved on from that unpleasantness.

[Newest Reality]

3. I would refer to it as "their" media, of course.

While most people could agree that some government information needs to be kept secret and is of a sensitive nature for security reasons, it is appropriate to question what information and how much.

So, rather than very generalized, black and white coverall, we could question the classifications and protest being kept in the dark as a people. We labor under the assumption that our government is ours and acts on our behalf, so challenging the "for your own good" and "national security" excuse to keep us uninformed has a legitimate basis.

Wikileaks has done more than release information publicly. The nature of secrecy and its purpose and intents has been brought into the forefront and justifiably so. We are now obligated to question the process and nature of government opacity and to what extent it represents a serious and detrimental threat to our freedom, rights and power.

This is a place of reckoning and, thanks to the gross negligence of power that those we entrust have obviously abused, Pandora's box, it seems, had to be opened.

[noise]

4. I wish you were right about the reckoning

but there appears to be no second guessing in D.C. The super patriots answer to nobody.

The media appears willing to go along with this garbage. A responsive media would be ashamed of their subservience to power.

[glinda]

5. Hard when they work for each other. Need a new media independent from it all.