I question whether the FOIA was well intended knowing that person who signed it was the one who carried out the gulf of tonkin incident. Why was the FOIA created and signed by LBJ?
If it was well-intended, then LBJ may have had too big of a heart and too small of a mind. However, I believe it is more likely that he did it to protect the executive power and himself specifically as well as to attempt to hide the fact that he did the Gulf of Tonkin incident... he was embarrassed and probably didn't even understand the FOIA when he signed it. Due to the FOIA, things like Pearl Harbor could remain secret to the executive and even then the executive may not know what is going on until it is too late. We will never have a true version of 9/11 because of the FOIA. The market builds a better consensus and the FOIA may have made the terrorist attacks of 9/11 possible. There are many many competing theories on that and that's because of the FOIA.
That said, people who have bigger hearts than minds or vice versa should never be executives (and neither should I). I've come to hate Lincoln and his Hitler less than most other authoritarians because I can at least see some logic in their ideas ideas even if I don't agree with them. Hitler and Lincoln at least applied logic so they didn't have any excuses... they were the bad man with the bad plan. FDR, on the other hand, had no original thought of his own and he wound up fusing his cousin's progressivism (national socialism) with Wilson's modern liberalism and corrupting the nation while doing so. He didn't even realize that Mussolini corrupted the Original fascism. It's really sad and scary that FDR was innocent while Hitler/Lincoln pleaded guilty on their own. Hierarchical centralization of power in a single executive corrupts too many people regardless of the institution.
The reasons as to why the FOIA was bad for liberty should be obvious to everyone, so enough said there.
If it was well-intended, then LBJ may have had too big of a heart and too small of a mind. However, I believe it is more likely that he did it to protect the executive power and himself specifically as well as to attempt to hide the fact that he did the Gulf of Tonkin incident... he was embarrassed and probably didn't even understand the FOIA when he signed it. Due to the FOIA, things like Pearl Harbor could remain secret to the executive and even then the executive may not know what is going on until it is too late. We will never have a true version of 9/11 because of the FOIA. The market builds a better consensus and the FOIA may have made the terrorist attacks of 9/11 possible. There are many many competing theories on that and that's because of the FOIA.
That said, people who have bigger hearts than minds or vice versa should never be executives (and neither should I). I've come to hate Lincoln and his Hitler less than most other authoritarians because I can at least see some logic in their ideas ideas even if I don't agree with them. Hitler and Lincoln at least applied logic so they didn't have any excuses... they were the bad man with the bad plan. FDR, on the other hand, had no original thought of his own and he wound up fusing his cousin's progressivism (national socialism) with Wilson's modern liberalism and corrupting the nation while doing so. He didn't even realize that Mussolini corrupted the Original fascism. It's really sad and scary that FDR was innocent while Hitler/Lincoln pleaded guilty on their own. Hierarchical centralization of power in a single executive corrupts too many people regardless of the institution.
The reasons as to why the FOIA was bad for liberty should be obvious to everyone, so enough said there.