Secrets ahoy!

Today, we live in a world where people accusing the government of corruption is the norm. We hear it everywhere, from the news to just everyday conversation. People claiming that they are being left in the dark by a plutocracy who has no interest in their issues. A plutocracy that is constantly seeking to get rid of our rights. 

There is something they forget though. Democracies call for an educated populace. And an education doesn't just fall into someone's lap. It requires work. A lot of people tend to just watch the TV and they consider that to be their education. That is fine and all, but they miss so much by just watching the television. The real education is in the written media. 

In my Government class last year, we learned how people who read the newspaper are more educated about current events than those who just get their news from the television. They also have a greater chance of seeing what the government doesn't want you to see. In the 1970s, there was a case about the printing of the "Pentagon Papers" which detailed all the lies the government told the people about Vietnam. The New York Times grabbed the papers and printed them in their paper. 

Back then, we had the Newspaper. Today, we have the internet. Go look up Wikileaks and see what it has. It can give you all sorts of "Pentagon Papers" and a look into the actions of governments around the world. Twitter is another source of information. During Ferguson, the site was ablaze with "tweets" about what was going on, people reporting from the front directly what was happening. These are only two examples of websites. but they show us that we now have more power than ever to follow our government. We need to stop complaining and start acting! We need to open the door to the closet and find the skeleton ourselves. We have the key, we just need to use it. What we do with what we find though, that is up to the people to decide.