In 1984, Big Brother proclaims the essence of all tyranny:
The strength of tyrants is in withholding information as much as in lying. As JFK said, in his speech The President and the Press:
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. "
Banning information is to the government what camouflage is to
the military: what you don't know makes you easier to deceive or kill.
The concealment of facts, whether about the CIA;s actual doubts about Saddam's' WMD programs, the lies of the government about 9/11, or the real benefits and risks of marijuana, as well as the real cost of a nuclear arms race, are all intended to defeat the democratic process and give the tyrants who conceal the information the means of controlling the public, whose support depends, then, on being left in the dark. This has led to criminal wars and millions of deaths. To assume it would do otherwise is to believe that
Ignorance is Strength and War is Peace.
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