▲「Economist.com」Nov 29th 2010, 23:27 by W.W. | IOWA CITY.(部分)
〈http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/overseeing_state_secrecy〉
If secrecy is necessary for national security and effective diplomacy, it is also inevitable that the prerogative of secrecy will be used to hide the misdeeds of the permanent state and its privileged agents. I suspect that there is no scheme of government oversight that will not eventually come under the indirect control of the generals, spies, and foreign-service officers it is meant to oversee. Organisations such as WikiLeaks, which are philosophically opposed to state secrecy and which operate as much as is possible outside the global nation-state system, may be the best we can hope for in the way of promoting the climate of transparency and accountability necessary for authentically liberal democracy. Some folks ask, "Who elected Julian Assange?" The answer is nobody did, which is, ironically, why WikiLeaks is able to improve the quality of our democracy. (太字は引用者)
国民国家の内にいても外にいても、やるべきことは同じだろう。内にいる場合、信念の代償としてその国家からは国家の法律を犯した犯罪者として扱われ刑罰を受けることを覚悟しなければならないが、これを逆にいえば、その覚悟さえあれば、信念に基づいてやればいいのである。その信念は間違ってはいないのだから。「立国は私なり、公に非ざるなり」という福澤諭吉の言葉と、尖閣ビデオを流出させた海上保安庁の保安官の事とを、念頭に起きつつしるす。
〈http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/overseeing_state_secrecy〉
If secrecy is necessary for national security and effective diplomacy, it is also inevitable that the prerogative of secrecy will be used to hide the misdeeds of the permanent state and its privileged agents. I suspect that there is no scheme of government oversight that will not eventually come under the indirect control of the generals, spies, and foreign-service officers it is meant to oversee. Organisations such as WikiLeaks, which are philosophically opposed to state secrecy and which operate as much as is possible outside the global nation-state system, may be the best we can hope for in the way of promoting the climate of transparency and accountability necessary for authentically liberal democracy. Some folks ask, "Who elected Julian Assange?" The answer is nobody did, which is, ironically, why WikiLeaks is able to improve the quality of our democracy. (太字は引用者)
国民国家の内にいても外にいても、やるべきことは同じだろう。内にいる場合、信念の代償としてその国家からは国家の法律を犯した犯罪者として扱われ刑罰を受けることを覚悟しなければならないが、これを逆にいえば、その覚悟さえあれば、信念に基づいてやればいいのである。その信念は間違ってはいないのだから。「立国は私なり、公に非ざるなり」という福澤諭吉の言葉と、尖閣ビデオを流出させた海上保安庁の保安官の事とを、念頭に起きつつしるす。