It's the secrecy of it all".
"The voting booth is tantamount to the confessional — it's the secrecy of the ballot that is the critical issue," Reeves said.
"There are basically no limits to the amount of information the F.B.I. can get now -- library book records, medical records, hotel records, charitable contributions -- the list goes on and on, and it's the secrecy of the whole operation that is really troublesome".
Updike wrote that anal penetration was the "black mass" of sexual performance - Kubrick's febrile movie effectively extends this metaphor to all sexual congress: sex is the "black mass" of human relationships, and it is the secrecy and unknowability of the sex act which is at the centre of this picture.
It is the secrecy – part and parcel of a fundamentally anti-democratic culture that has for so long pervaded British politics and just about every other aspect of Britain's public life.
Indeed, such is the secrecy of the project, it's not even clear where it's shooting.
To anyone who asks, "Surely these big firms wouldn't pay out if they knew they were innocent?", the answer is: oddly enough, they might.Perhaps the most destructive part of it all is the secrecy and opacity.
It is the corrosive effect of secrecy upon the scheme's two principal victims, one of them possibly a perpetrator.
Begun more than 20 years ago in total secrecy, it is the spiritual core of Damanhur, a 23-year-old New Age commune nestled, somewhat improbably, amid tiny rural villages in the Piedmont valley of Valchiusella, in the foothills of the Alps.
Although these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be on trial.
