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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.'"
Different people have different opinions on political topics. Next you're going to tell me the wikipedia article on Linux is not very nice towards Microsoft.
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Don't you think it is ironic that organizations that argue about goverment power are using the same methods they say are wrong to try and argue their point? Here we are with all of these organizations having their IP tracked, and suddenly, if someone posts, its a matter of publicity.
That should tell you more than anything that the lion's share of these "freedom" organizations are really just doing it to cash in. Every retarded liberal getting angry about a post by some freedom organization, moved to scream about the horror of the abuses, only wishing they had more money to give to save the world, are just as dumb as a two year old whining for Thomas the Tank Engine or Ronald McDonald. Give me some money and here's your cheeseburger of freedom, you dopes. You are ver useful engines!
All of these "freedom" organizations turn quite orwellian themselves whenever someone disagrees with them. There's no salvation there. I mean, if you want to go find a bunch of Nazis, go onto any of these places like wikileaks or moveon or dailykos and say, "hey, I think Bush is great!". You'll find more group think, suppression of dissent, and threats of violence, as you would in any organization or institution that they try to do. God forbid that the guys at Gitmo go and write their own take on the situation. Of course, they are in the wrong to do anything, because, they are automatically evil.
And yeah, I think its funny that the gitmo guys wrote that Fidel Castro is a transexual. I might write in Wikipedia that Fidel Castro is also a vampire. Fricking Commy Bastard, and that's a fact.
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Why not? Are you under the impression that a language is static, with well defined rules on how a new word comes into use and gets added to the official lingo?
Ur teh oldie.
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No, you are making blatantly false statements in an attempt to lead those who don't click through and check links into making incorrect conclusions, or at least muddy the water. First you say he was Romanian, now you say it doesn't matter that he was from Gitmo. What will you say next?
The deal is, the leaker is being thorough. He has given evidence, and has indicated where he has sources but no evidence, and has covered all the bases. You, on the other hand, are here trying to do damage control.
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Don't they know that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors paranoid enough about the Bush administration and war on terror to monitor the Gitmo page?
Perhaps they realize that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of editors who are biased against the Bush administration and war on terror who are willing to let inaccuracies get posted as long as they promote their personal bias?
Hey, I thought EVERYBODY could contribute to Wikipedia and that the 'wisdom of the crowd' would prevail. How is 'some officer from Guantanamo' different than some left-wing whacko socialist pushing his own agenda? If it's the latter, you'll say this is an example of democracy in action. If the former, you say, "That's not fair!" Seems to me the bias is obvious. People don't want a 'free and open' encyclopedia; thay want an organ for their own politics, looked over by Big Brother Jimmy Wales making sure they say the 'right' things and don't step over the line into a point of view other than what is acceptable, including anything and everything the least bit pro American.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
Once a democrat is elected all this will change and the U.S. will be a government/military that is respected round the world, because it's OBVIOUSLY the result of republican evil dooers.
I sure hope all these people watching GW and his crowd don't put on magic eyeshades when/if a democrat prez comes into office.
My bet is they will (ignore all this evil) once their guy comes to power
I heard tjstork is an admitted transexual.
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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.
or we could believe some punk whose rich daddy paid him to go to an ivy league and then he turned into a war profiteering President. http://democracyrising.us/content/view/57/72/
We are all just people.
In any event -- no administration is perfect, but any claim that they're all identical is broken in the extreme. We didn't have torture under Clinton 1 (and I do hope we won't have Clinton 2), and we wouldn't have it under Obama. If
You had torture in Clinton 1 - they played loudspeaker music at Waco to do a form of sleep deprivation, then they burned everyone in the building alive. But they were religious fruitcakes and that was ok. Of course, we still won't know what we really had in Clinton 1, because you have Sandy Berger deleting national archives and all of that lost email.
one group was talking up a war between cultures (and taxation, immigration, and the like), while another was universally focused on domestic betterment -- education, healthcare and such.
And there you go. You assume that one set of values is better. Taxation is a form of slavery, so yeah, its important. And illegal immigration is a form of theft. It just is. That is important to some people. It's important. A lot of we people have health care, and earned education, and a lot of what you talk about it stealing from someone else to line your own pockets while providing whatever reduced socialist health care you'll come up with.
It's just a power grab, and nothing more. It's Republican thugs, and Democratic thugs.
Honestly, you can't make the argument that you are in favor of freedom, when you keep promising to pass more laws. You're just too dense to see that.
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