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Here’s a radical, revolutionary statement: Your government belongs to you.
I am not a member or any far-right fascist organization or a Trump conspiracy theory buff. I do not advocate violence against anyone. But I do believe the government is organized to do the business of the people and therefore should be accountable to them.
We pay these folks. They are our employees.
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Yet, average citizens who try to obtain public documents from their city, county, state or federal government often are treated as if they were foreign agents looking for national secrets. It often seems, in fact, that foreign adversaries like Russia and China have greater access to U.S. government documents than most Americans do.