tarabull
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Trouble is that the terrorists will just double down on their atrocities. Also I don't trust the gov't to determine what we should know about events. There is a reason we have a free press and free speech. The gov't isn't overly trustworthy. When they hide information like the Ft Hood terrorist attack, it's not for our benefit. No, terrorists need to be under the spotlight not hidden in the dark where they can multiply like cockroaches. People deserve to know what's going on in their own countries.
The problem is governments can never prove a negative. So as it’s impossible to prove ISIS wasn’t involved because the perp can’t be interviewed, then some people believe it must’ve been. That’s not a lot different than me being unable to prove the world is round by having walked or flown in a circle around it, so then it might be flat.
So are you suggesting it’s realistic that people might expect a minute-by-minute detailed account involving the life of a perpetrator committing a mass shooting in order to prove no connection to ISIS? Much like pedophiles who become motivated through lurid public details involving child abuse, the act of unbalanced people committing copycat crimes is also well established.
Because we’re not given the entire investigative file to pour through, some assume there must be a conspiracy or a coverup. But did you ever consider the reason is to to protect you and me from some other lunatic out there who gets off on fantasizing over making headline news, imagining they can do better? So much negative in the worldwide news today simply because it sells, so many bloody movies and video games involving death, how does society in general benefit from dwelling on it even more? The survivors are left with coping with the tragedy, the impacted family and friends of the perp, the first responders on the scene - can you imagine how preposterous it is that they be expected to prove to the general public their accounts as well?
Sorry if this is coming across as a rant but I really do feel sorry for people who live their lives in deep mistrust and paranoia and believe that the entire govt or police always are corrupt, can’t be trusted, and nothing is like it seems. However it also deeply concerns me — because did you ever consider that mindset is not a lot different than the very same type of brainwashing that ISIS likely practises?
You do not know that they are lying. Just because the US government may (or may not) have does not mean that the Canadian Government is.All this because I don't like the gov't to withold information? It's "brainwashing" to demand a crime to be handled and reported honestly by the gov't? It's paranoia to demand the truth from the gov't? I don't find lies to be comforting, I prefer the truth. The gov't is not my master and I don't find politicians to be omniscient. As for minute by minute, the gov't shouldn't be lying because that information will come out. Just like it did in Ft Hood. It merely erodes public confidence in the gov't.
So, you're saying gov'ts always tell the truth?You do not know that they are lying. Just because the US government may (or may not) have does not mean that the Canadian Government is.
The government are the people that you have elected, not some big bad entity that gangs up on its citizens.So, you're saying gov'ts always tell the truth?
So, you believe the gov't always tells the truth and is never corrupt.The government are the people that you have elected, not some big bad entity that gangs up on its citizens.
That is not what she said.So, you believe the gov't always tells the truth and is never corrupt.
Exactly. Someone can give a million examples of the US Gov't lying to citizens and it has nothing to do with this case.You do not know that they are lying. Just because the US government may (or may not) have does not mean that the Canadian Government is.
This is really getting off topic. All I will say is that a gov't should tell the truth about crime and not lie to the public. It causes distrust in the gov't.Exactly. Someone can give a million examples of the US Gov't lying to citizens and it has nothing to do with this case.
That's not what she said. That's your own incorrect interpretation.So, you're saying gov'ts always tell the truth?
Exactly. Someone can give a million examples of the US Gov't lying to citizens and it has nothing to do with this case.
Actually it is what she said in the post.That's not what she said. That's your own incorrect interpretation.
You do not know that they are lying. Just because the US government may (or may not) have does not mean that the Canadian Government is.
So, you're saying gov'ts always tell the truth?
The government are the people that you have elected, not some big bad entity that gangs up on its citizens.
That's not what she said. That's your own incorrect interpretation.
Actually it is what she said in the post.
This is really getting off topic. All I will say is that a gov't should tell the truth about crime and not lie to the public. It causes distrust in the gov't.