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Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia
James Hardine writes "Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanamo have conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes, The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities documented by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees' ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments on news websites in response to negative articles, promoting pro-Guantanamo stories on the Internet news focus website Digg, and even altering Wikipedia's entry on Cuban President Fidel Castro to describe him as 'an admitted transsexual' (misspelling the word 'transsexual'). Guantanamo spokesman Lt. Col. Bush blasted Wikileaks for identifying one 'mass communications officer' by name, who has since received death threats for 'simply doing his job — posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.'"
Sorry if I can't build up any outrage over this. Wikipedia needs to remove the biased log in its own eye before bitching about specks in the eyes of others. This is what you get when you allow anyone to edit any article.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
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End the whole bloody military lie - its a corporate welfare program without end.
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When it is a government employee doing this, on the clock, paid for by tax dollars, as part of their official duties... well that is what propaganda is
So none of the shit done for free by revolutionaries is propaganda then?
You're a bigger idiot than kdawson, I have to wonder if you morons have any idea how ridiculous and reactionary you look when you spew garbage like this.
The only way it could POSSIBLY qualify as hypocrisy was if he, too, was a military mass communications officer who was being paid to spread propaganda on the internet. Which I doubt
Oh stop with the lawyerly equivocating. The issue here is that there are a certain number of people that are opposed to the Global War On Terror. They argue that they do not like the invasion of privacy by government tracking people online, or monitoring their communications. They don't like the deception, and, they don't like the dishonestly.
All of which is fine.
However, these people are now tracking people on the internet and monitoring communications themselves. How else does Wikileaks find out who is posting what, unless, they are monitoring traffic of people? And, to get people to turn over goodies, they encourage them to lie in the workplace about what they are doing.
So, in order for these people to save privacy, they throw privacy away even more so. In order for these people to save honesty, they encourage people to lie. And now, you defend someone's right to publicize another person's contact information, but, if someone else ran a web site with names addresses of people that you liked, you would be up in arms.
There's only one thing to conclude: The vast majority of these people do not care about privacy or whether the USA goes too far in the war on terror. They are only interested in getting power for themselves. If they valued honesty and privacy, they would respect it. And they don't. As I have said all along, all of these people are just trying to cash in. moveon, wikileaks, fighttheevilbush, cowboynealsliberalfriends etc, are all just in it for the money. Hell, even slashdot posts this stuff to get us worked up enough to post more stuff and get more page impressions. It's not about anythings. Its just cashing in.
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Holy crap you idiots take off your tinfoil hats, they are screwing with your brains. So we should believe people's who's purpose in life is to kill everyone in our country cause they're mad that their own country royally screwed them, or we could believe some punk whose rich daddy paid him to go to an ivy league and then he turned into a hippie journalist. But when someone who is actually in Guantanamo Bay tries to write about what he sees, which is people who tried to kill you personally every single needs being catered too, they even get priority medical and dental care over everyone else on the entire base, I know I was there for four months. Sure some people give them a hard time but they aren't tortured and even if this guy is telling a bit of a long tale, I'd rather take that story then someone like the first two people who don't really care about the truth just about how many people listen to them, or how many non-muslims they kill. I mean christ that's like asking Ghandi how to fight a war and actually listening to them. If were gonna be critical of this guy, which we should, we should be critical of everyone else who talks about this, especially the people who have never been there. Also there are other books besides 1984, try reading them.
Lets see... He's an officer in the military which has shown itself willing to use deadly force and brutality around the world whenever ordered regardless of the legality.
I think the US Military is absolutely great. Your notion of legality is absurd. The United States is a sovereign nation and does not have to listen to anyone except for itself. You can pretend the UN might somehow decide what is legal and what is not, but all I see is an institution that is just a mouthpiece for anti-American propaganda.
But... I'll tell you what. You hate the US Military so much, then I'd be just as soon to see the USA withdraw from NATO. Let Europe deal with its own security for a change, and we'll see how high minded your morals are when you have to pay tribute to the Iranian navy.
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