Slashdot Mirror
US Congressman Announces Plans To Probe Wikileaks
eldavojohn writes "Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is calling for a probe into Wikileaks with regard to the recent publication of half a million 9/11 pager messages. He has announced that he plans to have his Washington staff begin a preliminary investigation because Wikileaks' action 'raises security issues.' A word of caution: Congressman King has been known to make inflammatory and unpopular statements."
There are a lot more boozed-up hicks and Micks in America who are implicitly sympathetic to radical Christianity (including Catholicism, the biggest business on the planet), and this asshole is no exception. They should shove their crucifixes and rosaries and hypocritical dark-age censorship up their priest-penetrated asses.
Let me translate for you: the "interception" here was by the government. The "security issue" is that somebody in the government leaked that info, or (less likely) that it was swiped by someone outside the government. The real "issue" isn't that the info was leaked, its just that it revealed that the government has it.
The problem isn't that the government is unaware that pager (and intartubes) communication is insecure, it's that the people are now aware of it.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
mainstream america is what's *wrong* with this country.
mainstream america voted for bush, thought the war was a 'good idea', can't tolerate others' views (if you're not christian) and all that other bullshit.
MSA *is* the problem. we need to wake up and modernize our views on a lot of things. backwater USA is an embarassment.
(where is america's place in the world when it comes to belief in human evolution and not 'bearded sky wizard'? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html gives us a hint. the ONLY country who believes LESS in evolution is TURKEY. yes, that's right. backwater USA in all its glory and only TURKEY is worst than the US when it comes to modern thinking about stuff like evolution).
MSA needs to grow up and get with the world program. it really does. the sooner we admit that, the sooner we'll be able to, uhh, evolve a little, ourselves.
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
He's already working on that. He recently introduced legislation that would grant the Attorney General the right to infringe on your constitutional rights without due process. He thinks the Federal Government should have the right to put your name on a list and take away your right to keep and bear arms without any burden of proof whatsoever.
What's wrong with that picture?
Nothing! How long would it take to put everyone on the list? That would be the biggest life-saver in the US. And it would be the biggest contribution to world peace since long.
You know that Occam is cutting himself in his grave right now, don't you? Along the wrists.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
So, that would be everybody? Any particular reason why you chose to explicitly mandate the same rule twice, for two equally large, arbitrarily chosen subsets of the population, or is it just some weird sexist tradition of yours?
I like how you love my freedom by wanting to force me to carry a pound of metal around whenever I leave my home, by the way.
May we live long and die out
It is true that anything can be used as a weapon, but we've had times where guns were pervasive, name Ye Olde West, and it simply wasn't that safe. People carried guns, because the law simply didn't exist there, and even then there was stringent gun laws in some towns, including no pistols allowed.
A recent study that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun. I haven't read the article, and obviously there's some demographics issues that need to determined. For instance, how often do the shooting victims have a history of crime, and so on. (e.g. to control for bad drug deals and the like), so I'll put this up to a "maybe."
But at the same time, I think some criminal I saw on Gangland or something that said, "If I think they have a gun, I'm going to shoot them first, then rob them."
But violent crime is at an all time low, it's just not worth it.
And this is coming from someone that grew up in the boondocks with the county sheriff being at least 30 minutes away. (No. We never owned a gun.)