Posted on 11/03/2001 7:03:54 AM PST by liberallarry
Do you think they alert Clinton by letter or just a phone call that they need him to "tee the ball" as it were in cases like this?
Why would Clinton care about release of possibly upsetting GOP-era archives?
No. I saw it in the American press awhile ago, and it may already have been posted.
The question of how much of the inner workings of our government, the motives and actions of our leaders, should be known to us is a legitimate and fundamental question. It has a lot to do with what separates us from tyranny.
GW is protecting Poppa. Those documents would include Iran-Contra.
Sounds more like the Mob to me.
Bush has given every indication that he takes his job of providing national security very very seriously. And I think this is the basis of the order.
On the other hand, the mainstream media has shown NO concern for our survival. Naturally, they'll stick their thumbs in their mouths and cry "But that material is OURS!"
Grow up!
Did you approve of building the heroin trade in order to prosecuting a failing war in Laos? Did it work? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to have made the sale to the American people by communicating with them forthrightly instead of financing it with crime, drug abuse, single parentage, or a dependent class of destroyed lives? Did you approve prosecution of a temporarily successful effort to rid Nicaragua of Daniel Ortega by flooding America with cheap cocaine? Have you noticed who is running Panama, or that Ortega is making a comeback? Wouldn't it have been cheaper than filling our jails?
Bush has given every indication that he takes his job of providing national security very very seriously. And I think this is the basis of the order.
Really? Has he closed the Mexican border? Has he taken immediate action to corral Arab illegals that are still crossing it in droves? No? The Federal Government is not the source of our national security. Citizens are. Citizens were the only force that prevented one of those highjeckings from achieving its goal. It sure as hell wasn't Andrews Air Force Base across the street from the Pentagon. They couldn't even find two guys with Stingers with over an hour and a half of advance notice! What has Bush done to empower citizens? Instead Ashcroft grabs a bunch of unconstitutional provisions off the shelf where Reno left it and jams them through the Senate!
Wake up.
I believe this is a serious mistake and so would John Adams:
"They have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust is insidiously betrayed or wantonly trifled away, the people have have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed.""
A self-governing people cannot agree to let rulers keep governmental actions secret, even if they believe they can "trust" them. And I do not mean by this the temporary withholding of information about defense activities or wartime negotiations. Human nature is such that we can be assured the power of governmental secrecy will be abused. A people gives up its ability to hold its government accountable if it consents to such secrecy and by so doing it gives in to despotism.
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