fancyred wrote:
AZKC wrote:
fancyred wrote:
AZKC wrote:
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.

If American people could keep their fingers off the keyboard of a computer or/and keep their mouths shut, I would agree they have a right to know what is happening in our government but since we have that freedom of speech thingy going in the U.S. we have to have some secretcy in our government, unfortunately.   Otherwise we are eventually going to be overrun by another form of government whether it be VIA the interenet or some other form.  Yes, I know, we have the best military in the world and they would be able to protect our borders, but there are other means to take down our government that a physical fight.
  
Okay then, I will mark you down as someone who is fine with the government lying to its citizens, no matter what the subject as long as the folks running the government believe it should be kept a secret.

Although I have a niggling suspicion your belief changes with the folks running the government have an "R" after their names.

OK, then I will mark you down as someone who is fine with all our secrets going to terrorist so they can do more harm in the U.S.


There are things we need to know but then there are other things we shouldn't know.   

  


How the IRS figures the tax exempt status of one of these groups isn't really a secret, and if it were it sure wouldn't give terrorists an in. What the IRS did was abuse their authority, it's wrong, period. If they were deliberate in trying to keep this woman from her exemption, then they fucked up, they ended up giving her a huge platform. Now she's a political folk hero. Had they given her exemption, no one know who the hell she is or care.