fancyred wrote:
AZKC wrote:
If only we could get our federal government to "open up" their documents, at least the ones they haven't claimed they lost in 7 simultaneous hard drive crashes.

Do we really want the rest of the world to know what goes on in our government?
  
Don't we really want the American people to know what goes on in their government?

Once information gets into the hands of American's then it goes viral.  
Liberty is messy, democracy an uproar.  
Isn't there already one young man who has put a lot of things out there which could have caused a lot of problems for our young people in Afghanistan?
Does anyone else in the world really care about how the IRS determines whether an American group deserves a 501(c)4 exemption?

Does anyone else in the world really care about how well the PPACA is working by seeing the statistics about who has signed up by age and previous insured status and who has actually paid their first months premiums?

This kind of stuff isn't new with the Obama administration, but it has taken it to new levels.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson