While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) non-voting Delegate to the house of representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton, of the District of Columbia, declares in a hearing of the house oversight and government reform committee, “You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend.  That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government.”

       [added 12/16/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton says ‘you don’t have a right to know’ what’s going on in government | Washington Examiner.htm
www.washingtonexaminer.com/eleanor-holmes-norton-says-you-dont-have-a-right-to-know-whats-going-on-in-government/article/2551313

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