Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.

I agree with the speaker that sometimes, it is necessary for the government to withhold information, but these things should not become common practice and a means to bring obscurity to the governance.

Sometimes government needs to obscure information which are of national importance. Certain issues like country’s defence are of utmost importance & in no case, these information should be mis-utilized by any sections of society. If the government is planning any such scheme which needs to be executed without any warnings, the information needs to be classified and not to be disseminated in the general public. Also in cases where the government is planning to raid, the movements are often kept silent because in this case the criminal may get all the news from media which he needs to escape. The information has to keep secret until the recovery is done.

Also sometimes it may happen that certain things fail in the system, like say some nuclear test gone wrong, or one of the satellite is not working. In these cases also govt needs to first fix the thing before telling these to the common public, as it may cause mass level panic in the population. Also there may be chance that someone can take advantage of the same broken thing to get undue favours. So, it is better to first fix and then tell to avoid panic which won’t be of any help.

There are few international agreements between two countries in which both the countries have to make few compromises to help each other & improve the long-term relationship. Keeping such information in public will not be of any use instead can damage the relationship with other countries.

But in no way politicians can use this as a tool to go away with the wrongdoings. Opaque governments are never very successful ones. People should know what is happening with their money and they have every right to question the government for the same. Keeping people in dark & labelling everything as ‘national security’ & obscuring information will never help in creating the trust which people should have in the government.

A politician who is really working for the welfare of people will find minimal things to hide from people, whereas a politician who is indulged in corruption will find it difficult to reveal even basic details about spending. Transparency of government is also a good way to asses how well the government is performing and is devoted to the public.

To conclude, surely there are things which must be kept secret atleast for sometime for the successful execution and the desired result. But those things should be minimal. It doesn’t give politicians the warrant to do anything they want and not even be answerable. In the end, the money the politicians spend are people’s money & should be used for their welfare only. Politicians are always answerable to the common public.

Votes
Average: 5.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 167, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this information' or 'these informations'?
Suggestion: this information; these informations
... are of utmost importance & in no case, these information should be mis-utilized by any sections ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 404, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ified and not to be disseminated in the general public. Also in cases where the government is ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...p secret until the recovery is done. Also sometimes it may happen that certain th...
^^^^
Line 5, column 298, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...use mass level panic in the population. Also there may be chance that someone can ta...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, so, then, well, whereas, as to

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2417.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03541666667 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86234583877 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502083333333 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 754.2 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7615724744 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.086956522 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8695652174 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.82608695652 5.21951772744 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19406874549 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.056453238862 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360184610625 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0926224392023 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318073858877 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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