Why does a republic need to hide its actions from its constituency? Why does free speech become treason punishable by death when you're sharing "national secrets" with the enemy? How do we know our "national secrets" aren't the beach houses of appointed federal officials? If the enemy will represent your interests while your representative government lies to you and manuevers themselves into better individual economic and social positions by way of the power you entrust them with, who is really your enemy? One can only be held accountable for deeds that are known, and government without accountability quickly degrades into tyranny.

/rant

2/13/2006 11:24:30 AM

AND THANKS FOR PLAYING METAL GEARL SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY!!!!!!

2/13/2006 11:25:58 AM

?

2/13/2006 11:29:58 AM

state do you have any specific examples to go along with your broad description?

2/13/2006 11:48:11 AM

How quickly are we talking about, because we've been doing pretty good for a while. Besides, why would we want the enemy to know strategic things about our government that are top secret? Should we just go out and share our intelligence and technology with every country that wants to know?

2/13/2006 11:48:12 AM

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"AND THANKS FOR PLAYING METAL GEARL SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY!!!!!!"

aha

2/13/2006 11:50:16 AM

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"state do you have any specific examples to go along with your broad description?"

What don't you understand about top secret?

2/13/2006 11:50:42 AM

arent there generally oversight committies that have the clearance to review these things? are you really advocating its ok to share national secrets with the enemy, or are you just trolling?

2/13/2006 11:52:35 AM

if i had access to the information and did not have to worry about getting executed i would totally sell all of our secrets

[Edited on February 13, 2006 at 11:56 AM. Reason : open source bitch]

2/13/2006 11:56:14 AM

I don't even know if I should address this considering that there are numerous cases where some bureaucrat's loose lips directly lead to someone's death.

2/14/2006 10:16:10 AM

Woodfoot wins.

2/15/2006 1:44:51 AM

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"Why does a republic need to hide its actions from its constituency?"

Haven't you heard? It's because they got the aliums.

2/15/2006 3:37:03 AM