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>>>Aren't we jumping to conclusions here? Is it really quite terrifying? (barring another "Abu")
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>>>What's the alternative? Surely we're not supposed to just turn them loose. I say at least subject them to 8 hours of Pat Robertson, daily.
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>>The alternative is not to turn them loose, it's to not keep the whole thing a secret. One of the great foundations of democracy is transparency. One has to assume that it's a secret for a reason. There must be something they don't want the public to know about. That's a no-no in a truly democratic society.
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>What we don't know is not necessarily bad, and there are things that all governments do not want you to know.

Hi J.

Good to see you back here.

The essence of "democracy" is that THE PEOPLE decide what's allowable and what's not. Anything of the nature of (institutionalized) prisons being secret is anathema to the concept of democracy.

cheers