[ExI] sugar industry corruption

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well BillW, you know the cure for having not looked into it, ja?  So do we.



spike


Let's get our issue straight here.  Take the Freedom of Information Act
Lyndon Johnson signed.  I see big problems with it re the press.  If the
public, including the press, cannot access gov. actions then what good is
the freedom of the press?


Again, I have not looked into it in detail, but here is a problem:  the
Bush administration, as have numerous others, I suppose, put the lid on
sensitive information by declaring it a secret (just researching secrecy
would take all my time for weeks, likely).  The press howled about the
abuse but I never saw anything further about it (following such things is
not exactly a hobby of mine, and some of you may know about it).


Clearly, subsequent administrations of different political party, could
reclassify such things as  would embarrass former gov. officials, and maybe
that has been done.


What other freedoms is the press missing?  What can we do about it?


bill w

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2016, at 9:10 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] *On Behalf Of *William Flynn
> Wallace
> *Sent:* Friday, September 16, 2016 7:49 AM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] sugar industry corruption
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> >…So much for the United States supposed freedom of the press.
>
> https://rsf.org/en/ranking
>
> C.
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> >…Well, if 40 countries have greater freedom than we do (highly doubtful)
> I think that's a great thing…
>
>
>
> Ja!  But we have it explicitly ensured in our own constitution, so why
> aren’t we big number 1 on that?
>
>
> Recall, it was an amendment. And this should also lead you to question the
> efficacy of constitutions.
>
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> >…I have heard no complaints from our press about their freedoms…
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> Indeed sir?  Have you not heard of James Rosen and his run-ins with the
> Department of “Justice”?
>
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> Not just him. The RSF site also lists other examples. The US government
> has a long history of talking freedom, but when it comes to actually
> respecting it there's a mixed record. And the respect is usually in the
> breach here.
>
> >…  So I think we cannot be much freer, but I have not looked into it. bill
> w
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> Well BillW, you know the cure for having not looked into it, ja?  So do we.
>
>
> lol
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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