Friday, January 23, 2009

Obama Revokes Executive Order 13233

The revocation allows the public better access to presidential records, hopefully ushering in a new era of transparency in government.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    If you think that this is going to happen, you live must live in Utopia

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  2. x_3mta3January 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM

    Why must the thought of transparent government be Utopian? If we believe that we shouldn't be able to see what's going on in our government, then we've already lost.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    I did not say it was not a good thing, what I said was that it will not happen.

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  4. x_3mta3January 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    And that pessimism is contrary to what America represents. We should not be discussing whether or not we think transparent government is a good thing, or whether it is possible, because it is a good thing, and there's no reason it shouldn't be possible. We should be demanding it from our elected representatives. We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. If the government's activity is shielded from the people's view, it is failing us. And if the people fail to hold their elected officials to account, then we fail ourselves.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM

    I have been writing letters to governments officials (senators and representatives) for quite a while about crime, corruption and cover-ups by the members of congress and in the (both houses and both political parties), and in government agencies period. Guess what there is still crime,corruption and cover-ups in the United States Congress and government agencies! The members do nothing to clean up the mess that they have helped create. It appears that most of the members have decided to make their position of public trust benefit their own personal lives first, & the country when ever it fits their fancy.

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  6. x_3mta3January 26, 2009 at 5:08 PM

    When that happens, the system is failing. It is up to you, then, to voice yourself in the elections, and that may not even be enough. It is true that most representatives think only of themselves and reelection. Perhaps we have completed the cycle and this is one of those times referred to in the Declaration of Independence:

    "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

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