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Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
clustro writes "The Pentagon is desperately seeking the 'cooperation' of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in order to stop him from releasing over 250,000 pages of confidential foreign policy documents. The documents were allegedly provided to Assange by Bradley Manning, the same solider who leaked a video showing a US Army helicopter killing unarmed civilians and international press correspondents."
Do you really enjoy sucking the cock of the Almighty State that much ?
I knew there were obsequious worshipers of tyranny, but you, sir, take it to a whole new level.
It's really cute that our government "leaks" this FUD campaign because they don't have the balls to admit through diplomacy that they do indeed have a problem with sucking the dicks of the Arabian and Jewish lobbyists.
You, sir, are a troll. If you had a clearance you'd know that the info is either banal or humiliating to the U.S.
is incredibly difficult to maintain and always prone to exposure
i'm not arguing against your words on moral grounds, i'm arguing agains them on the grounds of feasibility
if you play the game that is security through secrecy, then you must recognize that part of that game is break-ins. you have declared your allegiance to a world where there are attackers constantly trying to penetrate walls and safeguards. and there are always moles, and double agents, and disenchanted guards looking for a quick buck
so it is a brittle world, one which could pop at any moment, and yet its legitimacy rests on guards and keys. so when, not if, the guards and keys are penetrated, part of your legitimacy is destroyed. its a game you can only lose
if you are eternally vigilant, then maybe this is the world for you. but more likely you are human, and fallible, and secrets will get out, as they are wont to do. its a world that can never be maintained for very long. it is an unstable world
all castles eventually fall. sometimes, they fall merely for being castles, being targets, giving your enemy something to focus its energies on
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
He is right on the money in saying that:
His comment is not a troll, and this level of moderation is clearly and abuse of the moderator system. Ironically, it seems to have been perpetrated by people who believe information should not be obstructed! Hey, assholes, if you really believe in it, how about you prove it by not shouting down or drowning out opposing viewpoints! If you modded this down, and you're reading this post, please comment in this thread to undo it. If isn't fair to mod him down just because you disagree with him.
That said, what does it say about the government of the US that they failed to release the Collateral Murder video on their own? How many other incidents like this have happened in Iraq that the government has covered up? Don't the people of the US have a need to know how their tax dollars are being spent? How would these videos hurt our military effort? Don't the people of Iraq know they've been given the shaft? And don't the other nations in the region assume the same anyway? Anyway, food for thought. It does bother me that he wasn't willing to come out in the first place, but I don't know all the details either.
Handing over a huge pile of classified information counts as "Aid and Comfort." Oops.
While a tenuous, but vaguely plausible argument could be made to support the deliberate leaking of classified documents (which I would strenuously argue against) for some supposed greater good, any and all justification is rendered inoperative with the news that Mr. Assange has over 250,000 documents.
These documents were not gathered in an effort to expose some supposed wrong doing, indeed, Mr. Assange is probably clueless as to what is in these stolen documents. There is only one possible reason to release these documents and that is to produce chaos and discord among the diplomatic corps of many nations. It would serve no purpose except to satisfy the perverted sense of satisfaction for anarchists and others who, while living under the protection of and benefiting from the order and structure of governments, nonetheless have an irrational hatred of them.
Mr. Assange has now set himself up as a one man version of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform and The Public Interest Declassification Board and numerous other organizations who decide what should be release and what should remain classified.
No good can come from this and the only people who would want it are the Molotov Cocktail throwing, window smashing, car burning lunatics and thugs we see at G7 conferences and other international gatherings.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.