{"id":252,"date":"2014-07-26T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-07-26T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T18:11:48","slug":"we-dont-have-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Have the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday (July 25, 2014), during a hearing of the\u00a0House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, House democrat, Eleanor Holmes Norton spoke out with a surprising statement.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that we don&#8217;t have a right to know things about our government.\u00a0 In fact she states that why there is a separation of powers in the Constitution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to disagree here with her.\u00a0 The separation of powers is so one portion of the government cannot be all powerful, and to help prevent one ruler like a king, or dictator.\u00a0 The question that should be asked is how can it be determined if one part of the government is abusing its powers if they do not have a right to know?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"7-25-2014 You Don&#039;t Have A Right to Know Everything In a Separation of Powers Government\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YfXoK68YXFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pushing this line of thinking can push a government towards a dictator.\u00a0 Not right away, but the slow eroding of power, bypassing government, and abuse of the government on its people.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sure bet, if the roles were reversed, and the US was still under the Bush administration, Norton would not be claiming that we don&#8217;t have a right to know.\u00a0 She would be screaming that Congress has the right to know.\u00a0 Funny how a change in administration changes one&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday (July 25, 2014), during a hearing of the\u00a0House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, House democrat, Eleanor Holmes Norton spoke out with a surprising statement. She stated that we don&#8217;t have a right to know things about our government.\u00a0 In fact she states that why there is a separation of powers in the Constitution.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[88,314,259,310,26,311,312,313],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-united-states","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-democrat","tag-eleanor-holmes","tag-government","tag-house","tag-right-to-know","tag-seperation-of-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}