Secrecy and freedom
Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy… censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
–Robert A. Heinlein
That’s great!
Heinlein? Is this not 2009? Are you playing this for laughs, or are you really quoting an authoritarian lunatic as somebody who shares your views on secrecy and freedom?
Have you read this yet?
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html
It’s a good place to start.
Also, there’s this:
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”
Similar in sentiment to your original post, but from a more reliable source I think.
Anyway, grist for the mill. Cool site. Take care.
I look at life as a smorgasbord, take what I like, leave what I don’t. I can find some ideas made by fascists nice. If it suits my views and goals, I use it, if not, I discard.
Cheers for the linkage, will check it out.