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If you only "never stop chasing them" when they reveal legal activities, that mechanism still works fine, and still provides an important check against the gove
by jbay808 6y ago
If you only "never stop chasing them" when they reveal legal activities, that mechanism still works fine, and still provides an important check against the government attempting to do illegal activities in secret, including rogue government agencies doing things that they aren't allowed to do by other branches of government.
What if the CIA were wiretapping the president, or the supreme court? Well, that would be illegal wouldn't it? Wouldn't you want a whistleblower to feel like they could safely expose it?
By and large, it's the government that decides what's legal and what's not. Even the Constitution can be amended with enough support. So exposing illegal government activities means you're exposing that a part of the government was doing something that it wasn't empowered to do, by the government. There are multiple branches of government for a reason. When the government is doing something illegal, it means an office of the government has either made a serious legal error, or gone rogue and disregarded its legal responsibilities.
That's a serious problem right?
- GekkePrutser 6y ago> What if the CIA were wiretapping the president, or the supreme court? Well, that would be illegal wouldn't it? Wouldn't you want a whistleblower to feel like they could safely expose it? Yeah you're basically describing Watergate here. And I don't think anyone objected to that being made public. Well except for Nixon :D IMO Whistleblowing has a place in society as a safeguard against the abuse of power.