On 3/19/2011 8:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Scott Loveless
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:21 AM, William Robb
<anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> American = Wikileaks bad.
> Rest of world = Wikileaks good.
> And frankly, I don't think Wikileaks has hurt any innocent people.
Don't lump us all in together. What with security theater at
airports, warrantless wire taps and the government's constant droning
of "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear", it's
freakin' obvious that a big chunk of the US gov't doesn't trust a big
chunk of the US. The only people harmed by wikileaks are the
two-faced bastards in DC. If they hadn't done anything wrong, they
wouldn't have anything to hide...
Hasn't really done that much harm to "the two-faced bastards in DC",
other than creating a small amount of embarrassment over certain
earthy and entirely accurate assessments of foreign government
personalities made by our own ambassadors.
The innocents put in harms way are those local people in other
countries who cooperated with the US to improve their own situations
in their own countries - the village headmen in Afghanistan who
mediated between their own people and NATO troops; the mid-level
Taliban members who were open to finding a negotiated end to the
current war, etc.
Like I said, just because Assange and Wikileaks are trying to stick it
to the U.S. Government doesn't make them good guys.
The whole Wikileaks phenomenon is just about as irony-soaked as it
gets. At this point, there's absolutely nothing about the entire
project that anyone can point to as a redeeming value. Its titular
leader is almost universally scorned by people on either side of the
issue, and the cause it purportedly seeks to advance has been set back
irreparably for generations. Does anyone honestly believe that what has
occurred will cause any of its targeted entities -- governmental,
quasi-governmental, or non-governmental -- to operate in a more open
fashion as a result of any of these leaks?
I'd submit that it's had the exact opposite effect, causing every entity
that's been targeted to review its security procedures and make
draconian adjustments, along with causing every potentially impacted
entity get out in front of the possibility of similar leaks. And, so
far, the only marginal benefit that's occurred as a consequence of any
of the leaks has amounted to little more than a confirmation of
long-held suspicions among people on both sides. The only real "shock"
experienced by anyone over the information that's been uncovered is over
the fact that none of it had come to light long ago.
And then there was the supreme irony of Assange petitioning the courts
to keep secret the address listed in his bond information -- something
that has always been a matter of public record.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338832/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-asked-judge-bail-address-secret.html
The world has been taken for a ride by the Don King of international
intrigue.
-- Walt
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