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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55
"Knowing the truth causes...damage"?????
I don't think so.
Jefferson stated that government "derives its just powers from the consent of the (informed) governed."
Withholding information, whether it's "embedding" reporters, or putting "plants" in amongst the questioners at press conferences, or not allowing the reporting of caskets coming in to Dover, or denying access to records under "freedom of information" makes a mockery of law and the populace's right to know (be informed).
Therein the "damage".
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Damage my ass. You and me have not been directly damaged by anything that has occurred over there or said by anyone. There comes a time when our 'right to know' becomes the problem. Jeffersonian statements about modern problems ring hollow. The world is a much more complicated place these days. The fact that caskets were not allowed to be photograped and publicized does not hurt anyone except those who wish to exploit it. Those kinds of people used to be called traitors. Now they are hailed as activists.