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Hostages

By Anthony | March 9th, 2006 | 1:15 pm

Lex has a great post over at his News and Record blog on our government and open-records laws:

Stripped of all its social, political and legal niceties, our relationship to government is almost like that of a hostage. We have to pay taxes, and if we don’t pay the government can jail us, and if we try to evade jail the government can shoot us. The only way to restore any kind of moral balance to that equation is to ensure that everything government does, in our name and with our money, it does, to the greatest extent possible and consistent with national security, in the open.

Lex’s post focuses primarily on local government agencies, but I think it’s particularly relevant to our federal government, especially considering how secretive they’ve been during the past, oh, say five years or so.

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3 Responses to “Hostages”

  1. David Boyd Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Is there a rabbit hole around here? If I didn’t know better, I’d say Randy Weaver was in the house.

  2. PotatoStew Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    I think there’s a slight difference between asking for a more transparent government and holing up in a cabin waiting for Armeggedon (or black helicopters, whichever come first).

  3. David Boyd Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:44 am

    I’m just happy to have the company.