>> The people who exposed this are heroes, not criminals. >Being a criminal and being a hero aren't mutually exclusive things It is a sign of the decay of society that this is becoming more true. Now we have a nearly zero correlation between the two. We are even now beginning to see *negative* correlations between "illegal" and unethical.

No. The document should have never been secret. We supposedly live in a democratic society. We pat ourselves on the back at how incredibly enlightened we are for being this way. But then we hide EVERYTHING from the voters. Tell me, fellow nerds: If the voters have no access to the info, then how does it help that they are voting? Why not just put on blindfolds while voting? Government secrecy is fundamentally incompatible with democratic elections.

Terrorists have killed people in the US this year. Last year it was . The year before it was . The year before that it was . In the entire history of civilization, terrorists have killed less people than the US killed in the bombing of Hiroshima. Can somebody please tell me why we have to turn our society upsidedown to deal with this issue? If our governments just leave the rest of the world the fuck alone... Or is that too Washingtonian/Jeffersonian for you fucks in Congress? Scott