Cherry picked Jefferson quotes:
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

“I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.” –Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78

“[This is] a country which is afraid to read nothing, and which may be trusted with anything, so long as its reason remains unfettered by law.” –Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 1816. ME 14:463

“Our people, merely for want of intelligence which they may rely on, are become lethargic and insensible of the state they are in.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1777. ME 4:288, Papers 2:19

“The materials now bearing on the public mind will infallibly restore it to its republican soundness… if the knowledge of facts can only be disseminated among the people.” –Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1799. ME 10:104

Shouldn’t it be the right who is upset about “the government” commiting crimes and keeping secrets from its peoples? Instead it seems they are pushing america down the path towards being another Islamic republic. Ron Paul excluded (of course)…

Ron Paul: “In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”