chimera wrote on Jan 4
th, 2025 at 8:08pm:
'don't you think it's time 'government' caught up with itself and began to RESPECT its people? The command us to RESPECT or be bashed disrespectfully ...... '
'Oh - and not all cases are subject to 'do not release to public' orders... ask why.'
'governments have something to hide... even if it is something as 'simple' as a miscarriage of justice... '
It sounded like you claim there's a general cover-up.
Not really - just an attitude thing - that they have every right to withhold from the peasantry whatever the Lairds feel they are entitled™ to withhold.
I'm of the view that - not only are the people as a body smarter than that - but they are less likely to be hostile and inward-looking if they are told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Where there is NO full knowledge of such things as the Bryant case, the very real fear subsists in the minds of many, though unspoken an d even not consciously thought out, that the same could happen to them - this is the 'halo effect' of ensuring that someone is convicted and the people are kept in the dark about why and how.
Some things, of course, are a genuine matter of 'national security' - but what 'national security' - other than the reduction of the power of the ruling oligarchy to withhold at whim and thus retain power over knowledge (same with 'privacy laws' which give ONLY the ruling oligarchy the right to all private knowledge - hello) - is there about the Bryant case? I only say 'national security' to give an example - but that phrase opens up many doors.
Would not the general populace be best served with knowing the full facts surrounding the Bryant case?