re: #450 Obdicut

Do you call your original assertion that it does an argument?

Yes, I believe that a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” should be accountable to its people.

“No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack and defence. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth whether in religion, law or politics. I think it as honorable to the government neither to know nor notice its sycophants or censors, as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792