Secrecy and Democracy Don't Mix

For the US to be a democracy, citizens need to know whether our civil liberties are being protected.

Citizens need to know far more about the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping, in order to reach our own conclusions about whether it's consistent with our Constitution, and decide whether to vote against the Republicans in 2006 and 2008.

But a proposed bill would stomp about our democratic right to know what our government is doing.

A bill by Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) would punish whistleblowers:


We need MORE INFORMATION on what our government is doing, not less. This is supposed a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Please ask your Congressperson and Senators to vote against an NSA bill. Contact information is at www.vote-smart.org. Type a last name on the top-right.

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If you haven't seen it, you should.

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that talks about government secrecy and how if the govt is allowed to keep everything secret (i.e., evidence of communist participation kept in sealed manila envelopes), then it's just a dictatorship.