Just watched this little gem, from 1975. It’s an interview of President Gerald Ford talking about the time that crazy woman, Squeaky Fromme, pointed a gun at him.
Surely, you remember Gerald Ford. Well, probably a lot of you don’t, on account of not having been born yet, but he was the president between Nixon and Carter, whose greatest claim to fame is that he managed to get through his half term without committing any crimes, that anybody found out about anyway. He’s mostly remembered for falling down a lot, and a couple of times beaning people in the head with golf balls, accidentally.
He died at the grand old age of 96, about 7 years ago. Squeaky Fromme served 34 years of her life sentence and was paroled at the age of 61, I can’t really imagine why – there was no indication that she ever stopped being a violent, delusional lunatic. Had to make room for more potheads, I suppose.
Squeaky Fromme
The part I really can’t figure out, though, is why this interview wasn’t aired at the time, and why it took a court order to get it released now. It’s not really controversial. It doesn’t challenge the official version of events and it certainly doesn’t threaten national security.
It sort of explains how Bradley Manning could release something like 700,000 documents, and the net result was basically zero. Oh, people found out that some U.S. soldiers enjoy shooting reporters from helicopters, and a few ambassadors got recalled from shithole countries because they’d been stupid enough to bitch about the shithole countries they’d been assigned to, but no governments fell, no lives were ruined, nobody got hurt. 700,000 documents.
I wonder what would happen if the government couldn’t keep secrets at all. Sure, a few court cases might collapse, but maybe that would be a good thing. Maybe, some top secret military units would be uncovered, but maybe that would be a good thing, too. I’m sure a whole hell of a lot of corruption would come to light, and that would definitely be a good thing.
Quite frankly, I’m having a hard time seeing the down side.
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