Shorthink93

I was reminded of this quote by an article in Off-Guardian by John and Nisha Whitehead. Their article is worth reading particularly if you are American but pretty applicable to most western nations right now. In Canada, we have 11 past and present members of parliament who have been found by the RCMP or CSIS (can’t remember which one) to be subject to foreign influence. The public is not permitted to know who they are. Our government is presently hampered in doing its job right now by the refusal of the reining powers to release unredacted documents concerning yet another scandal despite the House mandating them to do so. Here’s the quote the authors I mentioned above cited:

“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security… And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”
Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45