The whole idea that "sure, what the public wants is transparency, but those that work in government have a duty to keep those secrets" simply underscores that there is an inherent conflict between those governing and those being governed. The government, therefore, does not work FOR the governed, but instead works TO THWART the will of the governed, so that the governed may remain under the rule of those governing.

It has always been this way, in every country, in every place where there is a ruling class separate from those being ruled. We, the governed, are constantly at war - not with a scary foreign enemy, but with our own governments, regardless of by which government one is being thwarted.

It is absurd that the governments, who war with one another, at the cost of the labor and lives of the governed, as well as with their own governed individuals, seek to portray those wars between governments as wars between those being governed. The governed have a single enemy: the government which openly thwarts its will at every chance, using a flimsy "but, it's for your safety" cliche that fools swallow whole.