“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
John Dalberg Lord Acton
“A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both."
James Madison
"There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know."
John F. Kennedy
It comes down to money and reputations. It comes down to the personal and narrowly selfish priorities of a powerful and often complacent status quo.
Managers and executives who form close and personally profitable relationships with outside suppliers and money managers seek to drive more and more business to them, even when it may greatly disadvantage their own people and their own organizations.
They may choose to serve their own pride, their own careers, and too often personal gain above their oaths of office. And they may go to great lengths to hide mistakes and to ignore and excuse incompetency.
They may choose to serve their own pride, their own careers, and too often personal gain above their oaths of office. And they may go to great lengths to hide mistakes and to ignore and excuse incompetency.
This is the self serving money vortex of Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Security, and Big Finance, in partnership with their patrons in the government bureaucracy.
This is the credibility trap.
The only questions are what do they have to hide, and why?
The US War On Whistleblowers
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"He was hated and rejected, a man of sorrows, acquainted with the deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care."
Isaiah 53:3
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills its prophets and stones those who are sent to help her. How often I would like to have gathered your children in safety, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. And you were not willing."
Matt 23:37
