Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Nunes: IG report shows text messages were held from Congress" video.

  1. They become corrupt because they can! Redaction is BS. Oversight is ineffective in an environment of secrecy. Not obvious? The oversight group must have unfettered access to the object of its oversight function. Not obvious? Take a basic logic course. The question is why has congress allowed this bogus oversight operation??! I think they've been persuaded by the object of their oversight that the secrecy of some things is too risky to compromise by exposure to "outsiders", that such exposure would make it impossible for the secret group to function secretly. I'm getting really tired of all these secrets, and all the time and expense required to maintain them. The only purpose they serve is to secure some kind of special (meaning, undeserved) advantage, usually military/security, but nearly as often financial/trade. Militarily, the advantage could be used to induce fear in...everyone, not just adversaries--a defensive use, then. Even so, military advantage expresses in vistas of destruction, mayhem, and control, and is considered in terms of USAGE. IOW, everybody is always planning to wage war. This is a kind of toxic malice that pervades the very atmosphere. And it's not necessary anymore. Basic prosperity is now possible for all countries without waging war. Everyone's prosperity benefits everyone else because of the so much greater interconnectedness of everyone in the modern era. 70-year old people are thinking with essentially 100-year old minds, as far as the quality of ideas they consider valid indicates. They just can't realize that their ideas and way of thinking are outdated, no longer applicable to this vastly different world. So, in positions of power, such people MUST be, simply, dangerous.
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