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Interesting article and overview of government abusing it's right to secrecy and skirting the FOIA pretty much from day one.
Over the years there have been many heinous exposures, some due to the FOIA, others from whistle blowers who are usually discredited by (what appears to be) a corrupt media.
Anyone with some life experience, some common sense and smidgen of logic knows that things aren't always what they appear to be.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/government-secrecy-secrets_n_3512665.html
Excerpt:
"There may be a reason for that. There is a point at which the government has so abused its power to keep secrets that the legitimacy of that power begins to corrode. And there is a point at which the government has been so careless with its power to classify information as secret that the stigma for exposing that information begins to fade. We may have reached that point."
For me personally, the tipping point into "Zero" trust of the fed's was reached many years ago. Mainly from growing up with elder veterans from WWII and the Korean conflict. Some of the shit the military has pulled over the years is appalling.
How do you feel? Do you believe that the FOIA, some of recent exposures of media/gubment collusion and the long, long history of conspiracy rumors has finally eroded the Fed's credibility to a point of completely undermining it's legitimacy?
Over the years there have been many heinous exposures, some due to the FOIA, others from whistle blowers who are usually discredited by (what appears to be) a corrupt media.
Anyone with some life experience, some common sense and smidgen of logic knows that things aren't always what they appear to be.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/government-secrecy-secrets_n_3512665.html
Excerpt:
"There may be a reason for that. There is a point at which the government has so abused its power to keep secrets that the legitimacy of that power begins to corrode. And there is a point at which the government has been so careless with its power to classify information as secret that the stigma for exposing that information begins to fade. We may have reached that point."
For me personally, the tipping point into "Zero" trust of the fed's was reached many years ago. Mainly from growing up with elder veterans from WWII and the Korean conflict. Some of the shit the military has pulled over the years is appalling.
How do you feel? Do you believe that the FOIA, some of recent exposures of media/gubment collusion and the long, long history of conspiracy rumors has finally eroded the Fed's credibility to a point of completely undermining it's legitimacy?