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Sunday, October 7, 2007


Well I want to ask you a question then.  The Freedom of Information Act; it sounds so good in theory.  After X amount of years documents become declassified because your government has nothing to hide.  Well you need to learn the difference between theory and reality!  The fact is that to request something through the Freedom of Information Act you first have to know of its existence!  Let me recap so you will absorb this, you have to know of the existence of a classified document, like this will not make you popular with Homeland Security (and affiliated agencies) to begin with.  Then you have to file the appropriate paperwork, wait years to get a decision as to whether or not your request is going to be honored.  Very rarely you will get a copy of the pristine document.  What is pristine?  Well you are more likely to get what is called a sanitized copy of said document.   Sanitized being someone went crazy with a black magic marker covering up anything they do not want to become public.  There is always a chance you will get rejected for any sort of reasons that I am sure there is a very large list of or even you will be told that such a document does not exist.

Now if we were talking about stuff that is going on in Iraq right now, if (JUST IF) the government was doing right, I can understand the argument that lives must be protected.  However the usa government is still refusing to release some documents involving World War I !!!    Now if I remember correctly, the last World War I veteran died a few years ago, so who in the fuck are they protecting?

Let me throw out a theory.  If people were able to see the amount of corruption and lack of respect for the citizenry that not only exists today, but has always existed by those in power, a popular front would rise that would make demands of real change upon the government!

To quote Thomas Paine, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

Just a little something I had to throw out as I prepare for finals next week...


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