Opinion Poll. Do You really want to know?

Hello All,

Let's assume that the world's governments have secrets.

They keep these secrets based on their definition of national security.

If you could would you really want to know them?

hrxll

Yep. I wanna learn of something so unnerving going down that I flip my lid and become a pyschotic shell of a man.

Yes I would want to know them. I am curious just like anyone else. That doesnt mean I deserve to know them, or should know them.

It seems to me that a prevailing opinion that nothing is too important for everyone to know floats around this board. I would say that there are definitely things that are best kept secret in the name of national security, and in turn our security.

Besides, if we dont know it, then we cant know anything about it. We cant know what it relates to. We cant know how it will affect us. We cant know the results of gaining knowledge from information that we dont even know exists.

To put a 180 degree spin on that, we cant know the benifits of that same knowledge either..........

Originally posted by HerExcellency
Hello All,

Let's assume that the world's governments have secrets.

They keep these secrets based on their definition of national security.

If you could would you really want to know them?

hrxll

Yes I do. I want to know if Ted Bundy is in my neighborhood, if nukes are careening toward my house. I want to know all of it....so I don't leave any important words unsaid.

For good or bad, I want to know as much as possible. I wouldn't care if that secret government knowledge dealt with the piss-poor economy, to the Washington Mounument being an alien satilite reciever.

Some things may not be for public knowledge. That doesn't mean I wouldn't still try to find out.

Yes.

If they are capable of handling and coping with whatever that knowledge entails, then so are 75% of the population.

We are not dumb animals prone to panic as they want us to perceive ourselves


It is all about control.

I'm not sure what percentage of the population can handle the truth but obviously they are not presently being satisfied.

Of course it is about control, all the powerful and wealthy live on the backs of others in one way or other. Thus, control is important. Sometimes this control is for the greater good, sometimes we the controlled agree to this and sometimes it just happens that somebody must call the shots.

Some people claim that there is lots of room at the top but I seriously doubt this for obvious reasons.

What if the truth was so bleak that it would cause many people to give up? Do our leaders owe us lies in order to keep the wheels turning, in order to keep the system going? The more I think of this stuff the less easy the answers become for each side. Maybe that is why we must put the 'body' in the proper perspective rather than subjugate ourselves to it.

Yes of course.

If I wanted to bury my head in the sand I'd wouldn't be here atempting to Deny Ignorance.

I'd be watching friends, sending money to Jerry Falwell and reading The Weekly World News!

Or you could be reading rantings by Michael Moore or slobbering at some black sabbath of the satanic church.

I agree what a waste of time.

Tell me everything I want to know all of the secret things we are not presently privvy to!

No.

If they're THAT accessible, then it would imply that Saddam could find out and Osama could find out and Castro could find out and every nutcase on the planet with a gun and a cause could find out. Frankly, I don't want that info handed out freely to people like Osama and the Taliban.

Yeah....... I would like to know the truth. Maybe it would be better than what I imagine

Yes I do. I want to know if Ted Bundy is in my neighborhood, if nukes are careening toward my house. I want to know all of it....so I don't leave any important words unsaid.

Well.......Losonczy if Ted Bundy is in your neighborhood he's a ghost. He met his maker long ago.

I would want to know all. I can handle the truth. I don't think the government hides stuff because we can't handle it, they hide stuff to save face and political careers and for matters of National Security.

I'm here only for the reason of knowing what is kept hidden from me.

Earth shattering revelations I really don't expect to get. I already know ETs are coming here. I am just awaiting official government acknowledgement of the subject and subsequent details pertaining to this.

No matter what, I'm more than capable of handling whatever information is held for reasons of national security.

[Edited on 16-12-2003 by heelstone]

YES, of course.

Originally posted by Byrd
No.

If they're THAT accessible, then it would imply that Saddam could find out and Osama could find out and Castro could find out and every nutcase on the planet with a gun and a cause could find out. Frankly, I don't want that info handed out freely to people like Osama and the Taliban.

Byrd, I understand your point but I am guessing that what was meant by the question is if YOU wanted to know. Not that all secrets would be publicly released or something. Atleast that is how I understood it.

Just because people are placed, or place themselves, in a higher position than us in the government doesn't mean that they can decieve the whole country with all their bull# to cover there dirty secrets. Thats not what our leaders of. Of course I want to know!!

Absolutely. I would love going through the most secret files of major powers in world.

No, I wouldnt want to know. I guess I really would deep down inside, but National Security is more important IMO than my evil views and desire to learn more. Anyways, what fun would it be to speculate about this crap anymore.

"based on their definition of national security"

Ah, let's not be foolish.

Would I like to know the truth? Absolutely.