>>8816839
its whiney to ask for vindication? to want the world to know the truth? not just the new 'elite'?
how in the hell did this stop becoming about exposing the truth to the world? to EVERYONE in the world?! when in the fuck did we all just agree it was better to hide things from the public?
filter yourself pal since you seem to favor censorship. go back to reddit while your at it.
give THE PEOPLE DISCLOSURE! 100% not 60 40, not 70 30, not 80 20, GIVE THEM 100%!!!
"Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. - Jeremy Bentham, 1768"
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison, fourth American president"
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton"
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry, American colonial revolutionary"
"Bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure. - Darrell Evans, FIPA"
"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. - James Madison, 1832"
"I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society…. if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless. - Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher, 1982"
"The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry. - Gerard LaForest"
"Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety. -Woodrow Wilson"
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. -Jeremy Bentham"
"It amuses me to see the profound change in attitude about access to information which occurs when highly placed insiders suddenly find themselves on the outside. And vice versa! - John Reid, 1999"
"Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us. -Senator Patrick Moynihan,"
i understand that in warfare and strategy secrecy is paramount, but those matters have expirations, those informations need only remain secret for a period of time, after enough time, there should be nothing kept from the people of this country, does the power belong to the people or not? the information is the power..