Too Much Secrecy?
Due to the length of the article I'm linking to, I'll keep my comments short. Read this article first.
Aftergood makes several good points. One is that there comes a point where the governement begins to protect its citizens from spooks and spectres. The fact is that some of the documents that have been reclassified were done so for good reason. I personally don't want a terrorist having access to the space shuttle's launch timetable. It scares me sometimes what has been released to the general public.
However, removing common data such as aeronautical maps, historical recods, and telephone directories, seems only to frustrate those citizens the governement claims to be protecting. This country seems to be reaching a state of paranoia unparalleled since Joe McCarty was conducting "interviews."
Do I think that everyone should have locational access to anything America has orbiting this planet? No. But I do believe that there is a point when we begin to hinder progress in the name of "safety and security."
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I'm in agreement. I actually had a conversation similar to this the other day, and one of the points brought up was that the government seems to be capable of getting more and more information on us, while we seem to be getting less and less information about them. I really can't claim to have a lot of knowledge on the subject, but it was an interesting statement. Just wondering what you guys think.
Well, its been always said that the the government monitors poeple, and upper government monitors the government,... However the qeustion is who monitors who? Will it be safe that the bounds of privacy are no longer known to exist at some part or all parts of this society? Would that be constitutional?
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