Hugh,
I have been involved in the management of information for almost 30 years. I have learned the power of information and how it's management can benefit an organization. I have lived through the era of 'right to privacy and access to information' within Canada, and understand the delicate balance that must exist between those two ideas.
In my semi-retirement, I have the luxury of having an opinion and not worrying about the political consequences of saying what I believe. Although this forum is usually reserved for strictly professional purposes only, once in awhile it is important for one to stand up for correct principles.
Hugh, I applaud your comments regarding the need for freedom to access for information when that information is important for free individuals to defend their basic rights. That right should be independent of any political party and any country.
Sam McCollum, MBA, CRM
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On 2013-09-14, at 7:28 AM, Hugh Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At a time when the American citizen has no privacy in their phone calls and email, this is ridiculous. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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> The NSA and CIA should be required to survey every communication of every government employee and post their contents on a web site so every word these paid employees say is open for public review until all monitoring of citizens is stopped.
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> The most dangerous people to America are the corrupt public employees who take Lobbyist bribes, and make decisions that are not in the public interest behind closed doors.
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> The open display of their every thought would allow us to see when they became corrupt.
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> And very quickly, they would realize what patriots realize, that the constant monitoring of every U.S. Citizen is the absolute form of terrorism. The NSA is creating the lead in to the same behavior that allowed Stalin and Hitler to begin destroying political enemies in their own countries.
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> No free country should have this. More importantly, no country who has allowed it to occur remained free. Our communications are innocent until proven to be guilty.
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> But the placing of government employees right to privacy above our own is absurd.
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