Not the messenger

TRNN has a good video of whistleblower advocates calling to 'Stop Targeting the Messenger'. My comment:

Yes. Controlling information and secrecy is pivotal to the imbalance of economic and political power at the root of many of today's problems. Current POTUS hides his tax returns, business relationships and even visitor logs. Former POTUSs prosecuted whistleblowers, spied on Americans, and lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction. Big pharma and chemical companies use patents and proprietary information to make enormous profits and hide injurious outcomes/information. Other industries profit from patent licencing and copyright of information. These all have costs to consumers, workers, voters, and citizens in various forms including purchase price, exposure to unknown chemicals, loss of right(s) to contest disputes (against private and public institutions) and loss of right(s) to make informed decisions. Not only should whistleblowers *not* be prosecuted, the single most transformative reform of the current economic/political morass would be universal whistleblower protection.