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Friday 29 June 2007

Our government leaders know that they can act in complete secrecy — and can act illegally — because such a sizable portion of our population, and our press corps, not only accepts, but eagerly desires, such behavior in our Leaders. The authoritarian mind, by its nature, craves powerful government officials, the more powerful the better, because — as Jonah made clear — they place blind faith in the Goodness of those Leaders and crave an all-powerful figure whom they can follow and who, in exchange, will protect them. And anything which diminishes that power — whether it be the limits of the law, checks from other branches or the media, or even the basic obligation to govern out in the open — will be opposed by the authoritarian follower, for whom maximizing the strength and power of the Leader is always the overriding goal. Conversely, anything which limits the power of the Leader is to be opposed. Glenn Greenwald

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