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Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment?
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks announced on Mar 21 (via its twitter account) its intentions 'to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am.' It appears that during the last 24 hours someone from the State Department/CIA decided to visit them, by 'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours. Apparently, the offending leak is a video footage of a US airstrike."
Don't think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks.
Yeah, yeah. I know... you are legion, and you don't forget, and you don't forgive.
THL phish sticks
The government should regulate anything that one person's actions directly affect another person's rights. ie. FDA makes sure some company doesn't sell you shitty drugs. however, health insurance doesn't affect me if you don't have it.
-SaNo
The government should regulate anything that one person's actions directly affect another person's rights.
Your breathing is infringing on my right to breath the air I want.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
That's bullshit. Either your bullshit, or your employer/insurance company's bullshit.
There is no way an insurance company has done the actuarial work necessary in just a couple days to determine how much your rate will go up, much less communicated that information to clients, which requires legal review, etc.
And do you mean your actual premiums, or the portion that you pay? Because it wouldn't surprise me if some employers used this health care bill as an excuse to jack up the employee-paid portion, so that they pay less.
Couple of days? The bill was put online last Wednesday night. It's been a week. Do you think the insurance companies don't have lawyers pouring over the bill the moment it was made available? It might be 2700 pages, but they're paid to know it and know it they will. It doesn't take that long to determine that adding 30 million people to the rolls plus requiring them to cover people who might already be sick will require an increase in their rates. And depending on the State, they have a certain ratio of customers to possible payouts they have to maintain. And that's all assuming they didn't calculate it based on the previous bill (which is fairly close to the one we have).
Whether your employer decides to jack up the portion you pay or not based on this bill is just more proof that the costs are all being passed on to the employee. It all gets passed onto you and I at some point.
If you want people to take you seriously you have got to stop yelling 'Nazi Nazi Nazi' whenever something happens that you don't like.
Your post was the sort of thing 'chicken little' would write.
Bet when/if the time truly comes you are unarmed, uninformed and _ignored_.
Monitoring gadflys is akin to attempted rape?
Wikileaks saved itself from concentration camps by yelling about receiving the attention they wanted?
Idiot. I bet you cheer every time the government fixes something (like health care) for you.
A sight like Wikileaks is going to attract attention from those whose secrets it publishes. There are technical solutions for most of that monitoring. Including moving 'Anonymous' style.
Calling that monitoring 'Gestapo tactics' is just brain dead fucking stupid.
Name one nation where Wikileaks would not get attention and monitoring from the government?
Do something useful for Americas prospects: Go to the range for some target practice.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'