There are many things I would change if it were within my power, first and foremost the cult of secrecy that's grown up around the government no matter who's holding power at the moment. When the government withholds or distorts information, it gives other people, like whoever started this almost-hoax, more latitude to work their damage as well. Secrecy spreads like cancer, and it is the antithesis of democracy, and the less we have of it the better.
But it's utopian dreaming to imagine that we can ever eliminate pathological secretiveness from government. The best we can do is fiercely defend freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and then accept that ultimately it's up to us to check the facts and come to our own conclusions.
As we did here. Freedom and democracy are doing better here than in many other places in the outside world.
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- Why Bush doesn't use email
- But who would dare investigate a President's personal life?
- You mean he can write?
- Cripes. Would you? Story is true, BTW
- Secret email from George Bush to his daughter....
- Bush daughters
- Sounds like they are doing more good with their lives than their incompetent father (n/t)
- Now you see why he wants to keep his emails secret (n/t)
- Bush daughters
- Sort of true. Taken out of contex, and given a different setting and date.
- Secret email from George Bush to his daughter....
- What is your source? (n/t)
- I don't recall seeing any photo or video of Bush at a keyboard (n/t)
- Did someone ask him to disclose emails to his daughters? Or did he just go off on that? (n/t)