What utter nonsense and spin Stretch, they were "caught" and they aren't trolling political forums. They made their actions well known, their intent is to counter the BS the ideologically driven spew....
Nothing wrong with that in itself. Perhaps if the FOI requests were applied to the vast majority of 'information' rather than the trickle that comes through these days, there would be fewer 'rumors' to begin with. Sometimes more than a few decades after the fact, which is too late to act on, or so it seems. All those 'hidden documents' are taxpayer owned documents, a newspaper has no 'legal responsibility' to only print the truth, it can knowingly print a lie and claim it is the truth. I don't think that should apply to an 'elected person' who has to swear an oath, to their employers rather than the crown, once they stop acting in that capacity they give up the right to represent the people and if the people have been saddled with a needless expense they deserve compensation.
If one is so inclined to actually investigate things beyond what the media spins it into, one would find a great deal of difference between reality and the reality the MSM and sometimes alternative media wants us to believe.
Freedom to information is the best way to prevent that sort of thing, the Gov and big Biz go to great lengths to make sure their 'important' meeting are never made known public.
When somebody with the power to do harm, as well as good to the ones it is supposed too protect, those 'protected ones' deserve the right to examine that 'employee' to make sure he is performing that duty rather than the current practice where somebody can be 'influenced' to support a cause that makes him richer but makes the citizens less safe. Not only a right but an obligation as the effects are more widespread than just a few individuals.
This is of course is spun into something completely different by the ideological f!cktards that permeate the net as well. The ones that spread the "hidden agenda" story, or use comparisons to Nazism, the USSR and McCarthyism, and so on.
References to Nazis are used by both sides, fact is the West (includes Israel) support some Nazi practices. War on cities from the air is a fad that has grown since WWII. The blitzkrieg has been named 'pre-emptive strike', invasions (or retaliation) justified through deception. In the case of Iraq it would appear the deception was meant more for the international community than local consumption in that the lies were made public years ago and zero things changed. In civilian life that would mean some sort of charge. Getting rewards (without complaint from the ones lied too) rather than being fired and jailed and the justification of not doing anything because they 'were lied to' turns to vapor.
I mean I can fully understand differing political ideologies, and interpretations, but when reality takes a back seat, someone has to counter it with some commonsense. I'm only one man, so I see this as a small blessing and a little re-enforcement.
When the voters only choice involves two people who are going to deliver the same agenda with nothing more than a different label. Neither party will make the Gov more transparent (in all it's dealings) and no party will take any real steps to undo what the other has done to get them voted out.
For as democratic as we say we are as a Nation going into Afghanistan on the word of somebody like the US Gov shows us to be just the opposite. On word alone we will supply men and material at our own expense (I assume) in Afghanistan and devote untold resourses in the 'war on terror' in general without doing any sort of investigation on our own. (the 5th Estate actually did the summary of the things that needed further investigation, something that never happened).
So if the Gov is paying people to supply 'answers' to the people does that mean they have the obligation to supply the 'truth with verifiable proofs'? lol, I think not.
If they are feeding lies then they are doing it with Government approval. The voters would probably like to know which it is before the next election. They might prefer somebody who tell them they are slaves and there is nothing they can do about it rather than 'everything is fine, go back to sleep.
