a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
abou friday, the secretary ofed administration, mr. tony blinken, bragged about how great thget the sabotage ofd stream was. and we re quoting, it s a tremendous opportunity, said tony blinken. it s a great thing, not a tragedy, a victory, somethingf we are in favor of. besid we re excited about it. destroyed a natural gas pipeline before that. so it might be another clue that the administration may have had something s to do with it. oh, but nospite , saysth the whe house, despite the fact that we promised we would do it. and then we crowed about how great it was after itthing happened. we had nothing at all toat a dly with it. who did it? well, russia did it.ine, they blew up their own pipeline, making their own country poor and weaker in the middle of a major war, because that s how crazy, but. also diabolically effective the russians are suicidal, yet brilliant. and if you don t buy thauytif yu story, uncritically, if youre a