"A Trusting Citizenry Is A Recipe For Disaster"

[Brian Essi]

I found this quote from my communications consultant friend Peter Sandman among his online posts/opinions he dispenses for free (psandman.com) This one really hit home:

"People tell me it’s cynical to believe that trust in organizations is intrinsically unsustainable. I disagree. In fact, it’s a bedrock principle of democracy that governments can’t be trusted – that a vigilant citizenry is a precondition for good government, and that a trusting citizenry is a recipe for tyranny. And it’s a bedrock principle of capitalism (modern regulated capitalism, at least) that profit-making institutions shouldn’t be trusted either. It’s not a new idea, or a cynical one, that all institutions (even religious institutions) tend in time to abuse trust, and therefore need to be closely monitored."

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” “Common Sense”, Thomas Paine, 1776.

Those Bleed Lakewood establishment trust CCF, LHA and Summers and have cried out in the defense of corrupt customs---they are the recipe of tyranny.

Reason has converted only 48%.

Will time convert more revolutionaries or will tyranny prevail?

[cameron karslake]

I imagine the BL crowd to be conservative in nature and find it ironic that although they would shy away from trusting the federal gov't they can't bow down low enough to the local gov't. Crazy (!), unless there is something in it for them of course.

Education is key is exposing this "good news" deal for what it is, rotten and corrupt to the core.

[Bill Call]

I imagine the BL crowd to be conservative in nature and find it ironic that although they would shy away from trusting the federal gov't they can't bow down low enough to the local gov't. Crazy (!), unless there is something in it for them of course.

Education is key is exposing this "good news" deal for what it is, rotten and corrupt to the core.

The Plain Dealer refused to do any reporting on the Hospital issue and refused to print letters to the editor about the Hospital. It fit in nicely with the Mayors campaign of disinformation.

One of the reasons Build Lakewood declared war on the Observer was because it offered a venue for reporting facts that they wanted to withhold from the public.