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Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents
Albanach writes "WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange has been quoted by the Associated Press as stating 'the organization is preparing to release the remaining secret Afghan war documents.' According to Assange, they are halfway through processing the remaining 15,000 files as they 'comb through' the files to ensure lives are not placed at risk."
So it worked for the dark ages, it should work now?
Get a fucking clue. Times need to change, and wikileaks is a precursor to that change.
I'd say variation of one of three camps.
a.) "I vote according to party lines and Assange's head should be a pike."
b.) "I vote for the speaker who appeals to my needs without stepping on too many heads, I probably question some of Assange's ethics, though I can see the overall necessity. I probably think he is also a bit of a dick."
c.) "I'm completely disillusioned by the idea of government. Let 'em burn, let 'em all burn and we can re-built something more just out of the ashes."
This business of "illegality" is just a semantic term slung around by people who don't know what they're talking about. By whose legal authority is the Afghanistan war "illegal"? The only legality governing the actions of the military of a sovereign nation is that own nation's laws. By that measure, there is nothing illegal about the occupation of Afghanistan. Those fucking stone-age barbarians in the Taliban decided to support and give aid to a terrorist organization that conducted a blatant attack on the United States. The United States is well within its own legal authority as defined by its Constitution to declare and wage war on such a nation in that situation.
Hard to believe that some people are whining about legality/morality of Wikileaks, while US military forces are illegally occupying few countries and killing citizens there.
Oxymoron.