David, another very insightful and complex topic. You're keeping us on our toes! Ironically, I just had a conversation about "right" with a friend at dinner the other night. People definitely have strong opinions on the matter which legally and luckily in this country, we all have a "right" to have. Can you imagine living in North Korea? Anyway, I ...
“Knowledge is power” Francis Bacon
“Power corrupts tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Lord Grey
Is that what part of this is about? That control of knowledge is control of power?
The right to know what a government is doing is the right to challenge the government’s control of knowledge so as to mitigate that “tendency to corruption” that is brought ...