the truth

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:01 am

I saw an interesting interview on CNN this morning. Ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown was talking about what went wrong with Katrina.

He says "... there's this mindset in Washington DC, we always have to put a good face on everything... inside the beltway we believe that the public can't handle the truth"

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The video is in the first link in this story:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/ ... index.html
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I know I've always been skeptical of what the media and government says about guns... and here we have a clear statement that Washington's policy is not to tell the truth when they believe the public can't handle it.

I'm not quite sure how a democracy is supposted to operate when the government isn't telling people the truth?

Thought I'd share it anyway.

HighVelocity · Post by **HighVelocity** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:17 am

But the worst part of it all is that the government will just call it sour grapes from Brown and the sheep will have forgotten all about it before the next celebrity scandal.

KinnyLee · Post by **KinnyLee** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:31 am

If the government is telling the truth, then there will be many impeachments and revolutions. The government is only as credible as the people who runs it. Right now it's not. Not only with the Katrina incident, but everything else that has happened withint the last 4-5 years. The economy, the war, the new policies and the approval ratings of our current fearless leader. Then again, who am I to question?

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:52 am

We are "everything" to question our government and the running of this country...

A better slant would be that we should question the politics of an issue...If the liberal mindset is to "question" things when they are not in power...Can you imagine what things would be like if it had turned out differently in 2000, or better yet 2004...

Yeah, there are some real stinkers on both sides of the aisle...

But what makes it somewhat tolerable is that we (right here in this forum) are not at all fooled...

What we need is "principled representation", not people who get elected, stick a wet finger in the air and see which way the political winds are blowing politicians...

Thats going to be a hard nut to crack...But it needs to always be a threat to a politician (no matter how much you like or agree with them) and their longevity in office...

If you want my bottom line, core belief in how I feel about our 2nd Amendment right...

"It has nothing to do about guns, but everything to do about empowering the populous to maintain the ultimate check on destructive representation..."

"I do not fear my government, but I do fear the tyranny of good intentions."