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sc00ttie t1_itps2hd wrote

Reply to comment by CandyAssedJabroni in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc

The US is a Federal Republic.

Republic - a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

How can the people hold power and in turn make informed decisions on their elected representatives in less we know what they are doing?

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CandyAssedJabroni t1_itr4ulb wrote

There is an argument to be made that the government should never have anything secret from the people. It's the same people who think that Assange, Manning, and Snowden are doing the right thing. I agree with that view.

The difference is, those people were doing what they believed were the right thing. These other cocksuckers are just trying to turn a profit.

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sc00ttie t1_itrb755 wrote

I would pay a subscription to people tasked with informing the public on the activities of politicians in a non biased way.

They’re supposed to be called “the media.”

Profit and “the right thing” are not mutually exclusive.

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CandyAssedJabroni t1_itrbp11 wrote

Well, at least you're consistent.

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sc00ttie t1_itrcfaq wrote

Unfortunately, Pandora’s box cannot be shut. We’ve let politicians climb to a status above the laws they write.

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