Dear Friends,
It seems to me, absolutely everything government does must be open to the public, else corruption can only result, and it has. By this I mean every office, every hallway, every conference room, phone, and even the bathrooms would have microphones, with all of them immediately available to the public via the Internet, and recorded for later reference. I should think this idea would be common among us commoners, yet we appear to prefer the elite monitor us in our bathrooms, rather than we know of their nefarious conniving, in our name, on their behalf. Obviously the elite are totally and vehemently against a policy of openness. Nevertheless, if everything government does is immediately available, and recorded, today’s astounding level of government corruption will be reduced.
The elite will immediately go to the national security argument, we must protect methods and resources, that is far more important than low crime, prosperity or corruption free government! I have to wonder though… with the United States still ostensibly having the Second Amendment, what nation in their right mind would invade it? That would be sending an army into a meat grinder. They would have to get past our navy first, the most powerful on the planet. “What about terrorism though,” the elite would say. Because the history of the FBI and CIA are so wonderful in stopping terrorist attacks, like 911, San Bernadino, the Florida night club attack, and now BLM and ANTIFA… well, now that I think of it, their record is pretty abysmal, isn’t it? Making the national security argument spurious.
The bureaucracy has used secrecy as the default position, to use the laws passed to protect the citizen from terrorists, to terrorize the very citizens they are supposed to protect. The FISA courts clearly have been abused to spy on politically disfavored groups instead of stopping terrorism. Secrecy makes the Bureaucracy utterly unaccountable, as proven by Crossfire Hurricane, the Hillary email scandal, the Russian collusion hoax, the Special Prosecutor and the total corruption of the FBI, CIA and DOJ to progressive political ends. All of which show unambiguously that the apparatus of government has become utterly corrupted by the secrecy. That secrecy has done nothing to keep us safe, but has empowered the most villainous of people, to amass unconstitutional power at cost to us.
The default should be total government openness with no exceptions. The national security argument is a red herring, designed to trick us into agreeing to become slaves. If everything government does, talks about and debates is open and available to the people, government must go to impossible lengths to hide it’s corruption. There was a recent controversy about a secret meeting given to senators about the coming Corona virus outbreak. Several sold stocks as a result, the republicans were chastised while Nancy Pelosi was not. An oversight I am sure. Regardless, there is no compelling reason that meeting should have been hidden from the public, unless insider trading was the point. That corruption would have been avoided, had that, and every other meeting, been open to the public via the internet.
They are our employees, and we pay dearly for their services. In what universe does it makes sense for the employee to order the boss? What firm would stay in business if the employees actions were hidden from the owner? What about employees that could do anything they want yet punish the manager for annoying them? Everyone can see that would be an absurdity, but we have been conditioned to accept just that from our government employees… their actions should be hidden from us as as the default, that they should order us around, and that they be above the laws they foist on us. That is the state of affairs the secret state has created… and we have allowed. Isn’t it time to at least consider the idea that government should be open as the default? Or is corrupt state oppression too scary to challenge?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
