Have you ever said to yourself, “Dang, imagine
what it would look like if a bunch of well-informed libertarians
got to go on cable news and spend an entire hour talking about the
history, legality, and operational realities of government secrecy
and the various conspiracy theories it generates”? Well then do I
have a program for you.
Tonight’s theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three and five hours later) is all about “Government
Secrets.” It starts with the nation’s foremost thinker about
conspiracy theories (including those the mainstream deploys against
the fringe), none other than our own beloved Jesse Walker,
author of the already classic
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. He’ll
join Red Eye co-host Andy Levy in walking through a
variety of kooky (or seemingly kooky) public opinions on aliens,
the JFK assassination, COINTELPRO, MK-Ultra, and 9/11, and how the
government’s behavior exacerbates and even encourages creative
explanations of reality, in addition to healthy skepticism about
leviathan’s claims on privileged classification.
Occidental University historian and Reason
contributor Thaddeus Russell will
then come on to talk about historical skullduggery, from Operation
Paperclip to the CIA-backed
Iranian coup in 1953 to the Gulf of
Tonkin incident. KABC radio host (and multiple-theater combat
veteran) Bryan
Suits will provide a serio-comical take on the government’s
bizzaro system for providing and enforcing security clearances. And
for a break in the battle, Andy Levy will join Forbes columnist
Rick Ungar in playing a
whodunnit game of “Fact or Film?”
That’s a pretty awesome show already, and then BOOM! Fox News
Senior Judicial Analyst and Reason.com
columnist Andrew Napolitano comes on to break down the
(il)legality of the current government’s vast
surveillance-and-secrecy game. Not sold yet? How about Cato
Institute scholar and former Reasoner
Julian
Sanchez detailing the nuts-and-bolts costs of secrecy,
including in dollars lost by the private sector?
This is the kind of television program that you should really
watch, preferably on your television. Get some Jiffy Pop! Pour a
tall one! Lock the doors! Above all, be paranoid….
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