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- johlorax, on 01/22/2008, -0/+2How is it that 'we the people' have allowed our government to be the watchdog of the citizenry? Don't we elect these bozos to serve us and our interests? Shouldn't we mandate surveillance on them to insure that they're toeing the line? Don't we have more reason to fear their misdeeds and mismanagement than they have to fear from us?
Vote this comment up if you think every person running for public office should take a total transparency oath and allow their every action and word to be recorded. Shouldn't they be the ones being held accountable for OUR safety? - h4ckler, on 01/22/2008, -0/+1The American public have allowed it because for some retarded reason they believe that our government is making us more safe...
Those who surrender a little liberty for a little security will forfeit both and gain neither. - panoptik, on 01/22/2008, -0/+0"Total transparency" -- no. Total transparency, aside from being potentially dangerous, would also probably mean the government would cease to function. Imagine what would happen if every stage of every decision was made totally public -- we'd seize up in spasms. Sometimes a little opacity works wonders.
But the current state of things is shameful. What we need is a government which understands the value of transparency and feels that it owes it to the people. What we do not need -- and what we currently have -- is a government who believes the people to be foolish and fool-able, and believes secrecy is a divine right given to it, and believes secrecy is the primary, if not only, solution to many of its problems.
I want a responsible government that believes it owes something to the people. Is that so much?
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