Wrong.
All meetings involving government officials can be made public, outside of national security issues, without the commercial media, or any MSM dialog being involved.
Rip the doors off their government offices and lets monitor their every move. Lets end the behind the scenes meetings with those insiders, lobbyist and those with special interest.
We now have all witnessed what government is capable of when they are afforded the element of secrecy.
You still have to decide WHO is going to do the overseeing. As I said, I agree government meetings should be open with the exception of national security issues.
It’s a great thought that we could rip off the doors and waltz in to any meeting we, as citizens, wished, but there are security issues to think about to (i.e. do you want someone like Bill Ayers in the Capitol building, or any of the other leftist hacks/terrorists?)...
As I said - WHO is going to oversee these meetings on behalf of the public? You said there is no need for the MSM, or commercial media being involved. However, there would need to be SOME kind of oversight here...
You couldn’t have just ANYONE waltz in to these meetings - nor would you really want just anyone to be there. After all, say you are having a meeting on health care, or economics... Without requisite education it may be very hard to understand what is really being discussed and how it would affect the nation, good or bad.
As I stated - I’m all for it - opening up these meetings. Ending the crap that goes on with lobbyists and such behind closed doors. I’m just having trouble seeing how we could actually implement these ideas. Someone, somewhere would have to decide WHO is going to be “in on” these meetings. Someone, somewhere would have to decide how the information would be released to the public.
I’m not saying it can’t be done, but there needs to be more thought put behind this if you want it to really happen, you know?
You also have to take into account that I’d bet a LOT of the lobbyists and Senators and such do NOT hold “big” meetings... I think a LOT of what they do is during “lunches” and “dinners”. The only way to stop these things would be to have someone IN the government that had the gravitas to STOP these lobbied bills on behalf of corporations, etc... Honestly, it sounds like Sarah Palin would be a good choice - or at least she represents the kind of person we would need in there to weed out some of these things...
I’ll think on this more myself, but as it stands I don’t see how we could implement your wishes right now, in reality...