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WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo
bedmison writes "In an op-ed in the Washington Post titled 'WikiLeaks must be stopped,' Marc A. Thiessen writes that 'WikiLeaks represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States,' and that the US has the authority to arrest its spokesman, Julian Assange, even if it has to contravene international law to do so. Thiessen also suggests that the new USCYBERCOM be unleashed to destroy WikiLeaks as an internet presence."
Reader praps tips an interview with another WikiLeaks spokesman, Daniel Schmitt, who says they have no regrets about releasing the Afghanistan documents, and says WikiLeaks is "changing the game." Several other readers have pointed out that WikiLeaks posted a mysterious, encrypted "insurance" file on Thursday, which sent the media into a speculative frenzy over what it could possibly contain.
Yes, you made a clever but utterly ignorant statement as if this is a black and white decision.
When your son or daughter gets killed because he was nice enough to release a shitload of documents that no one actually looked at to see if there was some super secret evil conspiracy or that it was just troop deployment info.
Its easy to scream 'freedom of speech' when you have no investment in it or its consequences. Its funny when people scream so loud about things that don't even affect them, as if you understand what those it does affect are going through.
I'm all for whistleblowing when theres something to blow the whistle on. Thats not what Wikileaks does. They throw anything and everything out there without regards to the damage it my cause. He wants raw impact regardless the cost. He doesn't care what he puts out or what it contains, he doesn't care who it might hurt. He's proud of the fact that he's going to be responsible for the deaths of others due to his 'leaks' ... which are not leaks, he's a fucking data thief clearing house.
Plenty of people will right me of as 'one of them' I'm sure, but if you do not understand the need to keep state secrets then you really don't understand and need to keep your fucking mouth shut. I didn't save evil conspiracies, I said state secrets and they ARE different. Again, if you can't figure that out, you really need to STFU and crawl back in your basement.
Freedom of speech comes with a responsibility to use it properly, and Mr Assange wouldn't know responsible if it kicked him in the nuts with his own shoes.
Blow the whistle when theres a reason to blow it. Thats not what Wikileaks does, and thats why its a bad thing.
The principle is one that I stand by, the Wikileaks implementation however is nothing more than attention whoring with no intention what so ever of doing good, its just an easy target to get people excited and talking.
Julian Assange is an attention whoring pile of shit who doesn't give a flying fuck about righting wrongs or revealing coverups by evil corps and our governments.
He is a traitor. Not to any one country, but to the very people that support him. If you think he's great then you don't really know what he does and you're just an armchair activist who doesn't actually care but wants to pretend you do.
One more time just to make it clear. I'm all for bringing out the truth when someone innocent isn't going to be hurt for no reason other reason. I really don't care about stupid little lies if it means an innocent warrior gets to come home and be father again though. You have to take into account the big picture. If Mr Assange gave a flying fuck he'd spend a little more time weeding and effort into filtering what information is being released so that while we all sit around watching the Collateral Murder video that its actually the ones committing murder, and not the guy posting the video. Assange is more of a scumbag pile of shit than the people he claims he's exposing. That doesn't make what he does OK in any way. I'll care about Wikileaks and Assange when he stops presenting himself as such a selfish, inconsiderate, self centered cunt ... or at the very least he doesn't make it painfully obvious that he doesnt' give a flying fuck about anyone other than himself and how much media whoring he can do.
Want proof? This 'Insurance File' he speaks about. Do you REALLY think he has ANYTHING AT ALL that would REALLY stop the government from disappearing him if they wanted to? There is really NOTHING he or anyone else can have that would stop them. If he REALLY has it, they'll just kill him anyway and then start mopping up the rest, and 2 years from now he'd be entirely forgotten. You really don't generally get by with blackmailing the most powerful country on the planet, ESPECIALLY when even its more powerful allies agree with the assessment.
If he was actually a threat to the government 'conspiracy' ... he'd be d
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Wake up, bozo.
I read what he posted here before posting my completely relevant, honest, and true statement about what he posted here.
I don't need to read or care what he said about anything else to determine that he's being a retard about this.
BTW, you have his spooge on your neck.
Hmm...we're talking about a WAR between a country and a faction of an international organization in another country, which has at one time or another involved every nation signatory to NATO or whatever ANZUS is calling itself these days. We're talking about people hiding in one country tearing down the intelligence apparatus of one of the participants in that war, moreso the participant who is likely to let everyone live in peace if they win, not the participant who is likely to come to your town, beat your women for walking around with their eyes and mouths visible, and force your sons to learn their bible by rote. Believe it or not there are worse things than this self-imposed arbiter of secrecy being tried for his crime against humanity, and those things are right now being perpetrated against the people this guy carelessly tossed into the wind to make his point (things like torture and killing, not rendition and trial).
So if he's threatening to release even more sensitive information and reveal the names of people in even greater danger (yes, it can get worse, in number of people put in danger and damage to the overall chances of stopping the enemy) then he's putting himself in the role of antagonist; enemy combatant; target for those who wish to do the world good and don't mind getting dirty doing it.
If he cares about the rule of law he'll render himself and take his chances in court.
he was among the people most responsible for starting the Iraq War
That would be Saddam Hussein and his reluctance to abide by UN demands. How quickly we revise history.
Yes, GooberToo is an irredeemable fucktard. GooberToo should commit suicide and lighten the world's burden.
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This is a great comment, and reflects my deepest regrets about the Obama administration. Obama had a brief chance, when he was first elected, to wipe the slate clean, fire the federal reserve chairman, and start doing real investigations into the war and financial crimes that were perpetrated by Bush, Cheney, Greenspan, and Bernanke.
Instead, he decided to give them a pass in order to not be divisive politically. What has he gotten in return for this? Absolutely nothing. The Republicans still filibuster every vote and are determined to run our economy into the ground even further so that they may run him out of office in 2012.
By not standing up for what is right, he has just proven to the American people it doesn't really matter who you elect. The bad guys will ruin your country and the good guys will give nice speeches while they just stand aside and let the bad guys ruin your country.
I firmly believe that if we had real criminal investigations into the last administration, people would not be so willing to vote R in the 2010 midterms. Instead we get circus show trials of 2 corrupt dems, Rangel and Waters, that will ensure a Republican victory.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon