This audio is pretty amazing, but typical. (You'll get the point in the first few minutes.) The hosts of this show are some local political officeholders in Keene, the mayor and someone on the city counsel or something like that.
After the hosts evaded answering questions about a specific issue of open government (something like... the city clerk has been refusing to allow cameras in the city clerk's office, despite a law saying such filming is allowed), callers reduced the issue to a very simple question: "should government bureaucrats be arrested for breaking the law?" The hosts repeatedly just cannot answer that simple question. They just refused to talk about it after a while. They even admit that the reason is because it makes them uncomfortable. Of course it does! They know that if they say no, they are openly advocating government lawlessness, and if they say yes, they're 95% of the way to saying that the specific issue under discussion should be resolved by the arrest of government bureaucrats. So they just refuse to answer the simplest of questions.
Such are the people who control our most powerful institutions.
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Wow. This would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so frightening. I can't believe the insistence of these people in not expressing the basic democratic ideal: that all citizens, regardless of rank or position, should be policed. Fucked up.
Haha, the broadcast clip actually end with the broadcasters begging for a change of topic!
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