Civil Rights Violations in Divorce

Censorship is an essential component of war. Ship and troop locations and movements must be kept secret. Communications must be monitored and spies intercepted. Events, even disasters, must be presented in a favorable light in order to ensure the support of the populace. Disinformation and propaganda are as essential as secrecy.

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But the temptation to censor or classify information in order to cover incompetence, fraud, waste, theft, and other crimes virtually always overcomes some government officials. Napoleonic France had a saying: "To lie like a bulletin," regarding official communiques. Hitler openly used the idea that a lie repeated often enough by officials would inevitably be believed, and that the Big Lie is more likely to be believed than small fabrications.

Simply withholding information is also an effective method of censorship. It is reported that in Russia Stalin used the method where 100,000 books favorable to Communism were published but only 2,000 books presenting opposing views were printed. Today, with regard to the hysteria surrounding domestic violence we find a "lace curtain" has been drawn by the publishing industry wherein only violent men are portrayed in print and screen, and all women are innocent "victims."

In the wake of the Nixon Watergate scandals Congress passed the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) to reduce the amount of information the government could withhold from citizens. That act has been hailed as one of our greatest democratic reforms.

Naturally, the FOIA has proved to be of great embarrassment to many government officials. But far be it from any bureaucrat to use the information to correct their misconduct. Instead, the natural inclination of such creatures is to crawl back under their rock and make it illegal to turn over rocks in the future.

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