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Originally Posted by Azure
I also don't see anything wrong with it. Disregard spending problems, administration problems and such, I believe that the taxpayers really don't need to know what the military is making in the ways of technology. And if they are worried, simply sign on the dotted line and find out for themselves.
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Don't get me wrong Azure, there are times for secrecy, and R&D of weapon systems is one of them. I have no problem with protecting State secrets. Unfortunately we have found that the government and military get a little power and they can really run wild, abusing the latitude provided to them. There must be a happy medium found, where secrecy does not become a protective shroud allowing the government or military industrial complex to engage in illegal or immoral activities. A lot of ugly stuff has taken place beneath this protective shroud, affecting the lives of millions of innocents, all in the name of national security and secrecy. There is a fine line that is danced all over using secrecy as an excuse. Secrecy also makes oversight very difficult to maintain, and allows for gross abuses of tax payer dollars (to quote Bill Maher, "come on you bunch of right wing #@$%s, now I'm talkng YOUR language!"*).
* Quoted for humor
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There are too many idiots that would love to get their hands on military tech stuff and sell it to some rogue terrorist state for money.
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You mean like this?
Or maybe these same "idiots" will decide to use them themselves to institute a New World Order?
In all seriousness, you are 100% right, and we must guard against this.
See, we agree on the base principle, just look at it from different ends of the equation.