Just A Thought....

[Captain03]

How come news agencies will get the private discussion of our leaders. All they get is whats told in the press conf...may be result or action for a issue

but whatever they get are facts
its simple dont overthink it

 

[TruthSeeker]

In many States in the USA there is an "open meeting" law that says that all public business (town, county, State boards and councils) must be conducted in a meeting open to the public. We have that law here in Virginia where I live. The meeting is allowed to be "closed" only for certain subjects specified in the law. For example, to discuss the discipline of an employee, to discuss the meaning of terms of a contract bid with the bidder, and so on. But all decisions must be voted on in public. The meeting may be recorded electronically by anyone except that a copy of the recording must be provided to the secretary of the government body involved. This is a State law and not a Federal Law. However, the US Congress must conduct its business in public also unless it votes for a closed session for a specific purpose. Such closed sessions are very rare and usually to discuss secret military budget matters or personnel issues. However no law can prevent secret meetings from taking place in people's offices, homes, restaurants, golf clubs, etc. where deals may be "cooked up" in private and then discussed, later, in a phony way, in public.

 

[roopesh]

US ROCKS!

But this forum members wont be intersted in all those DULL topics. They want to be part of "nuke" decision; or blasting bombs...

 

[Cheeta]

In many States in the USA there is an "open meeting" law that says that all public business (town, county, State boards and councils) must be conducted in a meeting open to the public. We have that law here in Virginia where I live.

Open democracy is the thing that has been going on in many section of earth with success and the communities are used to that. For example in the tribal region of the Northwestern Pakistan many things are decided by public meetings of elders in a ground where they are timed to assemble. Even there the matters are not decided as righteously as desired. Moreover there are many shortcomings in the traditions. Among the central Arabian people there was also the custom of open meetings of decision taking. The Turks and Afghans have been also meeting in an open to make their decisions and the one nominated as a head was to be obeyed as a sacred task. Many nations do not possess this custom e.g Egyptians, Indians, Syrians, Russians etc by their racial tradition. They obey the King that be strong to rule. Hazrat Amir Muaviya was questioned by the Caliph Hazrat Umar on having reports of his living like a King being a governor and of building palace. He send an answer to the Caliph that 'the thing is true but these people are not like the Arabs and if I did not live like a King to them, they will not obey me as they are used to it'.
Just think of making an open meeting in Islamabad to some political cause and see people dragging each other.
As far as American boosting of its human rights and democratic political house is concerned it is totally fake. Just make an account of how many people do oppose the idea of sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and supporting Israel, and on the contrary what the government is doing.
One thing is obvious; in any case sensitve measures are kept upto the limited trusted people. The open democracy does work in the communities that are used to the system by nature or taught to use the system.