[citation][nom]aznguy0028[/nom]I agree completely with you. What I'm saying is, the average citizen will not make the best of decisions regarding national security. What difference does it make in our lives that secrets are leaked? I clearly know that EVERY governments' intentions are not good, I never assumed our own was different otherwise. But when you have people such as the Tea Party, and those millions who listen to Beck, Rush, Palin, you have to question the intelligence of the average person, and it's not very high. I don't think using Hitler was a good example because Germany was a dictatorship at the time, while the US have systems of checks and balances, and is a democratic state. I do understand your logic, but I don't feel having classified secrets out on the public domain is a wise thing to do. They are secret for a reason. One example with the last batch of leaks, tribal leaders in the middle east who were on assisting us were targeted and assassinated because of the wikileaks. Terrorists targeted them and had them killed and publicly released a statement thanking wikileaks, with that, we possibly have less people that would help cooperate with us in the future. But hey, everyone knows about that now, does it make any difference in your daily life or mines? Until I see a difference in our government's action being moved by the people, I reserve the judgment that nothing will be changed in the light of national security issues with the common folk knowing what's going on. Until the gov. change, I rather not have our secrets exposed to the world.[/citation]
I guess I misunderstood your position. I used Germany as an example to put some parallels, not to imply that the US government is just as bad as was Hitler's one. I used it because it is one of the strongest examples you can come up with to prove a point. Also, the governments abusing their powers applies to many countries. Some do this more, others less. So, it does not apply only to the US, but to other many countries as well. It just happened, that the US government is the strongest, most influential government right now although it looses its power over other countries little by little. It just tends to use its power to its advantage which is nothing new. Many other countries would have acted in similar ways if they were the most dominant powers in the world.
I guess I misunderstood your position. I used Germany as an example to put some parallels, not to imply that the US government is just as bad as was Hitler's one. I used it because it is one of the strongest examples you can come up with to prove a point. Also, the governments abusing their powers applies to many countries. Some do this more, others less. So, it does not apply only to the US, but to other many countries as well. It just happened, that the US government is the strongest, most influential government right now although it looses its power over other countries little by little. It just tends to use its power to its advantage which is nothing new. Many other countries would have acted in similar ways if they were the most dominant powers in the world.
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