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Hemos
on from the removing-things-from-the-domain dept.
SnapShot writes "There's a very scary article at slate about the revision and reclassification of public, U.S. Government documents made available over the last thirty years. This is supposedly to protect us from the terrorists. Do you feel safer?"
...can we please grow up and stop harkening to Nazi anything? If Slashdotters get any faster at Godwining themselves, they'll violate causality and do it before the fact.
This is nothing new under the sun. During the 80s the USSR sent physicists here to discuss information on nuclear fusion which was directly generated by the USSR. The USSR declassified it. They were giving the data on USSR government orders. The USA saw it differently and decided that since similar information generated by the USA was still classified, this information was also classified. Their reasoning was shallow at best regarding
Anyone who's done any time working for the government expects this inane nonsense anti-thinking. The concept that you should not bother closing the barn door once the horses have all left is firmly rejected by almost any government composed of humans never mind the USA. In their minds, closing the door will cause the horses to do a Casper and float right back through in the barn as if they never left.
This has nothing to do with Nazi, fascist, or any other tinfoil hat paranoia serving puerile fantasies of fighting some uphill struggle or whatever it is that drives people to think that way. I tell this to raving rightists as well as leftists. Grow up. They're too busy being incompetent to spend energies on hassling you personally. Any hassles they give you are merely SOP for everyone.
Illogical idiot non-thinking is what this reclassification is. Par for the course. Did you really think that prior to George W. Bush that the US government was some brain trust under Bill Clinton? Wow. Between the IRS during the 70s, USPS since inception, and the Hoover years of the FBI, I didn't think anyone could miss it. You want a better and more troublesome conspiracy? Ask why hot dogs and buns never seem to come in the same number at the same time at the store.
-- If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Slashdot Mirror
Saddam: Documented CIA payroll
Pinochet: Documented CIA payroll
Taleban: Documented CIA payroll
Osama: Documented CIA payroll
What dots can't people connect?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
...can we please grow up and stop harkening to Nazi anything? If Slashdotters get any faster at Godwining themselves, they'll violate causality and do it before the fact.
This is nothing new under the sun. During the 80s the USSR sent physicists here to discuss information on nuclear fusion which was directly generated by the USSR. The USSR declassified it. They were giving the data on USSR government orders. The USA saw it differently and decided that since similar information generated by the USA was still classified, this information was also classified. Their reasoning was shallow at best regarding
Anyone who's done any time working for the government expects this inane nonsense anti-thinking. The concept that you should not bother closing the barn door once the horses have all left is firmly rejected by almost any government composed of humans never mind the USA. In their minds, closing the door will cause the horses to do a Casper and float right back through in the barn as if they never left.
This has nothing to do with Nazi, fascist, or any other tinfoil hat paranoia serving puerile fantasies of fighting some uphill struggle or whatever it is that drives people to think that way. I tell this to raving rightists as well as leftists. Grow up. They're too busy being incompetent to spend energies on hassling you personally. Any hassles they give you are merely SOP for everyone.
Illogical idiot non-thinking is what this reclassification is. Par for the course. Did you really think that prior to George W. Bush that the US government was some brain trust under Bill Clinton? Wow. Between the IRS during the 70s, USPS since inception, and the Hoover years of the FBI, I didn't think anyone could miss it. You want a better and more troublesome conspiracy? Ask why hot dogs and buns never seem to come in the same number at the same time at the store.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)