Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook
by tejaswiy on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:51PM
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Although I agree that in this case, the NYPD is wrong, I think that governments can keep certain things secret for the good of their people.
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Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook
by ck2 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @11:01PM
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But then you cannot call such a government a democracy.
People making and enforcing laws do not get to arbitrarily decide to make something secret because they say so since they are the ones who made the laws in the first place. That's not democracy.
Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook
by gizmo686 on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:57AM
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There is a reason we call the USA a representative democracy, instead of a direct democracy. The government can keep secrets from the general public, because the public elects individuals to make decisions on their behalf, and these individuals to have access. There are plenty of concerns over how well our representatives do represent our own interests, but in concept there is no reason that the fact that our represantatives know more then us invalidates anything.