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Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down
Scrameustache writes "The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan."
You're assertions are out of line. Assange put many people at risk of death, including citizens of Afghanistan, by publishing documents without even removing information that personally identifies civilians that terrorists would love to get their hands on. That ought to outrage everyone, including his supporters, as he has no sense of the worth of a human life.
He's an asshat. He proved he's only out for self-glorification, and doesn't give a damn how many people are hurt by his actions. I sure won't shed any tears of the demise of Wikileaks as long as he's at the head of it. Even many of those working with him on Wikileaks resigned rather put up with him.
I would do the same thing the US government did to shut him down. He's a egomaniac that puts innocents in harms way just so he can attack his perceived enemies faster. He could have delayed publishing the documents but he wouldn't as he runs off of hatred, not principle. He's no one to follow or support in any way.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
When that motivation is blind power, you've got to ask the questions.
The radio stations of which you speak were a propaganda tool meant to weaken the communism regimes and recruit internal supporters. I wouldn't really call them good indicators of America's true motives (although I would submit that Americans did then and continue now to value and promote freedom). How many were set up in the backyard of non-communist oppressors?
I'm also pretty sure if anything you would have found the U.S. more reactive to those releasing confidential military documents during the Cold War. As regards Wikileaks the difference between then and now is mostly the existence of the internet.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Imagine that you were just imagining that this might happen.
This *did* happen, you ignorant fucktard. This isn't just some made up hypothetical rhetoric, it's reality. Informants in Afghanistan were outed because of Wikileaks' irresponsible behaviour.
This just proves more than ever that Wikileaks is right, it's in the right and the US government is wrong.
US government is wrong about the economics, it's wrong about policy, it's wrong about politics, it's pretty much wrong on everything at this point, I don't think it can be redeemed.
You can't handle the truth.
Your intuitions about good citizenship don't map well to appropriate behavior for serving military. He helped the enemy fight us (attacking the will to fight a war is just as useful as killing soldiers or sabotaging material). The only way his action could be justified was if he had solid evidence that his entire chain of command was acting illegally to cover up illegal orders. He knew nothing of the sort. He should have gone to his boss, and if he though his boss was corrupt to the approriate channels for that case, and only then if he saw evidence of clearly illegal activity being coevered up (and no such thing has come to light from what he leaked, so by now we can reasonably conclude there was no such thing).
A film of a helicopter crew who clearly followed the rules of engagement when shooting a civilian, and were already investigated by their chain of command for an incident? That's not being a whistleblower, that's being an enemy propaganda agent, and a traitor.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
The problem with your post is that by 'other human beings' you mean Americans
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My God you are dumb. I mean heart-breaking-to-your-mother dumb. Your post shows that you know *nothing* about CS Lewis and potentially even less about Christianity. Go back to Digg, or Fark or wherever you came from. You tried for snark, you tripped and fell flat on the stupid-as-fuck line. Believe it or not, there are things that don't revolve around religion and the parent post was one. And even more mind blowing - there are things that are from Christianity that are good.
*W*O*W* - - - I know how weird is that?
When you retort, by all means, include the list of all atheist soup kitchens. I am sure it will not tax your keyboard skills.
And for ref's sake - I used to evolve germs for a living. I understand evolution and science well enough, so you can stuff your Luddite comments from the start, I have more degrees in the sciences than you do.
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
Again, there's a difference in expected behavior for a civilian and a serving member of the military. Nobody shot Jane Fonda, despite her best efforts at enemy propaganda.
If you're a soldier with a complaint, you take it up internally, and for good reason: you almost certianly don't know the whole story. That's part of the deal - the army doesn't tell you the whole story, because it occasionally needs to keep a secret during war, but it provides you (in modern times) with an aveneue of complaint if you have solid evidence of misconduct by your boss (and otherwise, talk to your boss).
If you're a senior officer with a complaint about the culture itself (and at a certain level of senority, the culture itself is part of your job), you're supposed to exit the military before complaining to the outside world. Many good (and silly) complaints about how the military works have surfaced from retiring colonels and generals who have do this the right way.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
US Gov. 11th commandment:
Thou shall not know
If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen
Seems to me that a lot of folks are whining about the US military taking action to protect itself from a similar future occurrence. Blacklisting != whining.
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