[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Public Records

[Gerry Gras]

Here's an update (today) from the Merc:
"California lawmakers split over restoring Public Records Act"
http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_23496254/california-assembly-restore-public-records-act

Gerry


Spencer Graves wrote:
> Below please find a letter I sent to the Mercury responding to their
> editorial yesterday, "Public Records Act must be restored"
> (http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23485981/mercury-news-editorial-public-records-act-must-be).
> Comments?  Best Wishes, Spencer
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Public Records
> Date: 	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:01:58 -0700
> From: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>
> To: 	letters at mercurynews.com
>
>
>
> The Mercury News editorial on the Public Records Act provides good
> examples of problems that would have gotten worse without transparency.
> Current international news includes other examples such as Iran's
> nuclear program.  Fifty years ago, the US Central Intelligence Agency
> organized a coup that destroyed democracy there, replacing it with state
> terror under the Shah.  In 1980 as the Iranian public stood in the
> streets until the Shah fled, the US pushed Saddam Hussein to attack
> Iran.  A few years later, the US provided chemical and biological
> warfare technology to Saddam Hussein, which he used during that period.
> Are we better off today because of these and many other acts of war
> taken by the US government without the knowledge of the electorate?
>
>
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