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Originally Posted by Servina  They are accountable to us, as their electors. They work for us, not the other way around. This is why we've had civil wars and protests. Do you agree with torture? Do you think people who sanction it should be protected? I don't and I don't want any government that does. Nor do I want a government who allows business interest to influence policy at the expense of human rights. |
Open government does not mean every little thing that happens has to be made public.
In hindsight, I don't agree with all the decisions Winston Churchill made during World War 2. But, imagine if Wikileaks existed then and all our secrets were made known to the Nazis - knowledge about the activities of the French Resistance, etc. Imagine if the British people didn't back Churchill because some negative story about one of his decisions got out. Britain would now be a slave nation ruled by Fascism.
If you don't trust your elected representatives, don't elect them in the first place. If people are stupid enough to elect an idiot as their President, whose fault is that?
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Originally Posted by Servina The government are like parents.....nonsense. |
Well, you obviously missed my point, which was to illustrate that at all levels of human society, it is not necessarily desirable that everyone knows everything about everyone else, which seems to be the way this over-inquisitive, sensationalism-driven, media-dominated world is heading.