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发表于 2005-1-22 21:58:58
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Issue8 第1篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧!
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作者:寄托家园作文版普通用户 共用时间:43分30秒 596 words
从2005年0月22日21时11分到2005年0月22日21时43分
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It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
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For the stability of the society or just the fame of his own, many leadership consider withholding information from the public. Some asserts ,this is necessary and desirable. However, in my opinion, I think it is not a wise deed.
Primarily, the power of the government comes from the public. The public have the authority to know what their nation is happening. As Rousseau, a famous philosopher, advocated in his masterpiece "The Social Contract" that the public release some rights for the stability of the society and congregate these rights together to be displaced with a form of organization. The organization is the nation, which takes the role to keep the peace and happiness. In this case, the rights of the public rise to change into the power of the nation. Hence, the master of the nation is indeed the public. The leader is not King to dominate them but the servant to serve for them.
Simply put, just as the Churchill, the former Premier of Great British, once said: "The price of greatness is responsibility." A great leader has the responsibility to do reports for the public. Further, he is accountable to design the short- and long- plan to lead the public to pass through the obstacles and create a favorite situation.
While some leaders withhold the information on the behalf of the stability of the society, unfortunately, the mere fact always betrays their wills. With the development of the massive global media, the public have more and more channels to master not only the situation of their own nation but also the international affairs immediately. If the political leader withholds the information, it will give the birth of canard and hearsay to penetrate the public's life. Although the leader's decision is to prevent the chaos of the society, the information and news from informal channels will instigate citizen's curiosity and stir up the society's stability. What's more, the situation will too deteriorate to be controlled. Take the SARS in Beijing as an example. When the SARS spread in early time over the Beijing, the mayor withheld the news for diluting the negative influence of this bad news. But out of his expectation, more and more citizens caught the SARS since there are little news to arouse their attention to fight against the infection. Some persons died and other lost the family. If the mayor had noticed the public at very early period, the SARS might be put emphasis on in advance so that many persons could survive from this nightmare. After this issue, the public's confidence on the government decrease, which is detrimental for the stable society. As a word, to withhold information from the public is not a desirable even though the purpose is beneficial at first.
Admittedly, some information should be withheld from the public, such as the secret of the nation and military and so forth due to the releasing of these information will threaten the security of the nation. Nevertheless, the government should on a relative transparent state to guarantee the right of the public to know the general information.
Nowadays, the communication between the government and the public appears more and more significant so that the citizen's intellect and ability can be focused on one point to propel the progress of the society. To withhold information is not a wise deed for a leader because it cut the channel to the public. If information only from one direction, the balance of the society will be flirted and broken up ultimately. This is the opposite direction of every political leader's aim. |
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