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Post by palesa on Mar 3, 2009 8:31:21 GMT
www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2478931,00.html Is this a good thing or not, does the public have a right to know, or would it be better to keep this in the past?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 9:55:34 GMT
It must be brought out to prevent it from happening again. If the people in charge think that they have the right to keep anything 'controversial' (to use a mild term) secret, new abuse begins immediately.
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Post by Jazz on Mar 3, 2009 13:15:52 GMT
I agree with K. It is disturbing (!) what was done. There was a terrible abuse of presidential powers. To keep this 'in the past' is to condone these actions with silence.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 4, 2009 17:26:36 GMT
It's quite annoying to see this topic on top of various unrelated forums.
Couldn't it be confined to a "Talk Politics" type forum?
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Post by palesa on Mar 5, 2009 4:28:09 GMT
Apologies Don, if this annoys you.
As a non-American, this truly facinates me and I would like to know what others think. I do not post on any Talk Politics type forums, otherwise I guess I would have posted it there.
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I wanted to get some feedback before posting my thoughts on this.
I think it is important that these kinds of documents are made public. I think people have the right to know what the President of their country did and they have a right to be able to respond.
In South Africa we had the TRC which allowed victims and perpertrators of political violence to come forward, the perpertrators were offered amnesty for testifying at the TRC and victims were supposed to get some kind of compensation (not sure how well that has gone though).
At the time the ANC government was already in power, but I do not think that they have released any documents that would implicate the apartheid government, so we will never know if they revealed all that was to be revealed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2009 4:40:45 GMT
You certainly have nothing for which to apologize, Palesa!
It is extremely important that the US is admitting publicly what happened. Kerouac and Jazz put it succinctly. Yes, it is retroactively complicit to not publicize this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2009 6:13:00 GMT
In any case, Port and Starboard is definitely the primary board on which politics are to be discussed, according to the description of the site.
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