What is the US Government hiding from its Citizens?
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About a hundred pieces of footage of the missile hitting the pentagon on 9-11.
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Contrary to what they tell us it is part of their plan for the new world order. They think the people are unintelligent and are unable to have a government  "of the people, for the people and by the people." Our government rules by their own beliefs, not the beliefs of the majority of the citizens.
1087432
I don't think Bush knows what transparency means...People in our nation have got to wake up and realize the true patriotism is never afraid to question its government!
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attack by who? government or the people that they government claims.
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Everything done by the US Government is protection of some capitalist interest or another. The Cold War, Iraq, The Gulf War, and the Bay of Pigs invasion are all examples of that. The people dont run the USA, the large corporations do.\n\n\npeace
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The government hides alien knowledge and/or presence because leaking it would cause pandemonium amongst the various religious sects around the world, which is/are about 90% of this planets inhabitants, and would shatter their belief system and blow holes in the "God (whichever version you choose to subscribe to) created man in his own image". statement in religious teachings.
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Not the American people but the American government, and not only by Iraqis and Afghanis, but literally by most people in the world.  As to why, it's unlikely that you'll get the answer from your mainstream media!
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Everything is monitored by the US government
1073208
They hide alot of things because society tends to have a mob mentality and large groups of people tend to panic easily. So it is probably a good thing that we dont know everything, I cant imagine the kind of chaos that would insue if we did.
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Like stated before, US is a flavor of democracy but ...\nthere are many aspects which aren't consistent with democratic principles. \nOne would be the lack of transparency and games of interests. Guess you've noticed how many decisions taken by the elected administration have been done behind the back of the people they are supposed to represent and protect. Creating an atmosphere of insecurity, furthering own interests, limitations of civil liberties, etc ... these are signs of a totalitarian system, not democracy. Maybe some infrigements on liberties are necessary in the current sstuation but that doesn't mean they are acceptable in a system that wants to appear democratic.\nAlso the relativity of freedom. A very small part of the media is actually free because those members of the media that aren't subjects in a race for profits serve the politicians. The result is that media doesn't want to inform the people, it wants to give them what sells best. This way the people aren't free because they won't be fully in touch with what happens around, they aren't fully controlled either, just in a state of half-thruts and sometimes deceit. Biased info, govt cover-up attempts (like the failures in Iraq, secret prisons, etc), these aren't part of democracy.
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Our government is doing many things that the American people do not support.  I'm sure that many other horrible things are being done by our government that we're not even aware.
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The government. The Government sees all. While society is watching each other, the government is watching us.
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I believe the Government ..Keeps "LOTS" of Secrets.         The Alien Topic @ Area 51 is just One of them.(Could be thousands of Secrets  ya know!) ..Because If there are No Aliens or Proof Them , Then "WHY" is it a Restricted Area? Besides, We shouldn't be so Self Centered in Our Thinking. To Believe that We are the Only Life Force around.
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Things that would harm the 'security' of the government. Sounds nice, but in reality, they hide anything that would interfere with the status quo. Since they don't want a wrong impression of what they have screwed up in the past, they hide pretty much everything they use to make decisions and the actions they take under the premise of 'the interest of national security'. This could be technology which would help enemies (so-called; expanding who constitutes an 'enemy' greatly expands what can be kept secret), anything that would ruin our economy or the main corporations which support it, anything that might reveal how our weapons work, policies about how things are REALLY kept secret, plans for keeping the government (and friends) safe after a major attack, strategic sources of materials which aren't publicly disclosed already, scientific data that might cause panic, scientific data that might cause distrust of the government, inventions which could be used as weapons (yes, they monitor patent applications), and all the usual things like who is a spy for who, how we monitor communications, how other countries monitor our communications (and sell us the info), how much money our intelligence agencies spend, and who in our country is suspected of being a threat to any of the above things.\nI think that pretty much covers it. If anything like paranormal activity, UFO's, or antigravity technology falls under the categories above, welllllll....\nAnd don't forget that they won't tell you if something they tell you is really false or misleading so that you don't investigate something else they are hiding. The interconnected web of confidentiality agreements, classified documents, and disinformation is not an accidentaly complicated system. It is meant to confuse people. Just like the aisles in a store which make you go around things just so you spend more time looking at and buying things you otherwise weren't interested in. It's all in the marketing.
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There are no solutions, if you really look at it. The U.S.A. is so secured of itself, that doesn't even know what is going on around them. And if they do they turn their heads the other way. I am speaking about the government.
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Let me divide your three questions:\na) How corrupt is our government.\nMore corrupt that we can possibly imagine\n\nb) What secrets ... 9 clearance doors?\nWhat is evident: Funding of illegal organizations, spying on allies / contigency plans in cases friendly governments (not necessarily democratic) are overthrown, assasination plans, plans for a next war,\nWhat is not evident: I would have to have that clearance!\n\nc) True meaning of war on terrorism?\n1st,trerrorist acts were committed on US soil. However, the government is playing on the fear of ordinary citizens to promote its own geopolitical agenda on its own terms. \nIt is otherwise called "Rule by Fear". A Polish friend of mine, told me that he is a bit worried about how much the state is entering into our daily lives and sees a lot of similarities with the state oppresion by former communist states.
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The goverment has concealed things from the public since it's formation. Cover stories and diversion stories are created daily. With today's instant communications technology, it's not as easy. And it's not always with evil intent. For example, when the 911 incident occurred, the idea was that the least truthful information released to the public the better, so as not to create panic over possible future or more attacks that law enforcement had no advance knowledge of where it would occur, even though they told us it highly probable it would. The theory is tell the public the least information possible with plausible deniability. If that isn't possible, and real information for the safety of the public is available, release it according to its weight against negative panic and fear that it may cause. The least the better is rule of thumb in goverment.