Corruption & Government Officials

These books have a number of different purposes, although nearly all of them seek to make people angry about a wrong that the writer perceives. Some writers are openly partisan  hoping not only to convince the reader that a particular wrong has taken place but also that the particular course of action advocated by the writer is the only possible recourse. Other writers are more temperate in their approaches, assuming that once a wrong has been made public then the public will know how to act to right that injustice. Of the two books examined in this paper, one pursues the former strategy while the other takes the second. Both examine elements of the federal government and particularly of the federal intelligence system. However, despite these similarities, the politics, style and philosophies of the different authors produce dramatically different books.

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caution. Bock does not like the government (as his writing in The Orange County Register shows) and so one wonders how fair he has been in describing this incident. It would be hard for a conservative activist such as Bock not to make hay of the events. Still, Bock does make an attempt to include different perspectives in the book, and one does have the feeling that even a supporter of the role of the federal government as it is currently constituted would find the government's actions at Ruby Ridge unacceptable. Bock's book, like the historical incidents that he describes, suggest various policy changes, some of which in fact were implemented. It is one of the trickiest elements of any democracy that sometimes to keep people safe they must be kept in ignorance  a concept that is easy to understand in some ways but very hard to square with the basic principles of democracy. We know that intelligence agencies from the CIA to the FBI to local undercover police stings to military intelligence must be kept secret at least for some period of time to make them effective. Americans want criminals caught and enemies spied upon and treasonous conspiracies stopped in their tracks. But at the same time Americans want to know what
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)

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