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Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him
Stoobalou writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of 'treason' by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US government. From the article: 'David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident, names Assange and WikiLeaks as defendants in a personal injury suit filed with the Florida Southern District Court in Miami. In the complaint filed on 6th January, Pitchford alleges that Assange's negligence has caused "hypertension," "depression" and "living in fear of being stricken by another heart attack and/or stroke" as a result of living "in fear of being on the brink of another nuclear [sic] WAR."' Just for good measure, it also alleges that Assange and WikiLeaks are guilty of 'terorism [sic], espionage and treason.'"
Don't you have to be a citizen in order to be charged with treason?
Not according to the American concept of Manifest Destiny, with its emphasis on American Exceptionalism, Nationalism, and "divine destiny" to help promote the virtues of Freedom and Democracy as interpreted by the leaders of the Republic.
Off-topic, but I thought I would respond here. While we might think this is silly, I there is some justification for this decision. Whether most people agree with this or not, the word "faggot" as a reference to gay people is quite comparable to the word "nigger" as a reference to black people. Both are words that are derogatory terms towards a minority with a history of being oppressed. You would be very very unlikely to find a modern song that would get any airplay that refers to gays as "faggots". It is, for very good reasons, a word that is losing favor in civilized societies that value fair treatment of minorities.
Let's say there was a song from the less-enlightened 50s where some country singer referred to a group of blacks as "niggers". Would that be considered by most people as acceptable for airplay? Somehow I don't think so.