Sunshine

Sunshine

United States Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, had made the following quote and the ideas it contains were a part of his philosophy when practicing and judging the law.

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

Those in the legal profession in the United States and elsewhere around the world would be most familiar with the second sentence,  "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."  This refers to a call for openness.  Openness not only for government at all levels but for all of society and its people involved in various parts thereof.

The struggle in the US and what I have read in the papers in the Philippines is to implement such an idea to allow all those affected by actions taken to be able to know and judge what has and is being kept from them.