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hummingwolf) wrote2011-01-11 05:57 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2011-01-11 05:57 pm
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From Slacktivist: "Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously."
You know, I was thinking when I woke up this morning that with all the news coverage about Saturday's shooting, Julian Assange must be feeling terribly left out. So when the first thing I heard after turning on the news radio station was that Julian Assange had compared himself to Gabrielle Giffords, I greeted the news with a certain lack of surprise. Then again, given what Sarah Palin and other rightwing superstars have said about the Wikileaks crew, the statement may have a point. It's a point hidden underneath a gigantic, bloated ego, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
Every few years, tragically, some poor confused bastard fails to realize that it's all a big game, a pretense, a lie. He takes them seriously and he takes their words seriously and he behaves as someone who believes what they say. So Paul Hill murders a doctor in Florida. Eric Rudolph bombs the Atlanta Olympics. Scott Roeder guns down a doctor in church.
And each time this happens all of the people who have, for years, been suggesting that such violent resistance is obligatory recoil in horror at the sight of someone treating their words as anything other than the disingenuous lies they were always meant to be.
You know, I was thinking when I woke up this morning that with all the news coverage about Saturday's shooting, Julian Assange must be feeling terribly left out. So when the first thing I heard after turning on the news radio station was that Julian Assange had compared himself to Gabrielle Giffords, I greeted the news with a certain lack of surprise. Then again, given what Sarah Palin and other rightwing superstars have said about the Wikileaks crew, the statement may have a point. It's a point hidden underneath a gigantic, bloated ego, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Infuriating as Assange may be, he's not a traitor to the US--he can't be, since this isn't his country. He could be a traitor to Australia, but I haven't heard anyone say so. (I think some of the documents on Wikileaks should be out in public, but I also think that that man is arrogant, opportunistic, misogynistic, and generally obnoxious. What fun.)
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I think some of the documents on Wikileaks should be out in public
I disagree. There is nothing that has been released that has benefitted us by knowing it. Governments should not be transparent - there is no need for everyone to know everything. And in this world of near-instantaneous global information sharing, it should be even more protected.
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Terrorists attack civilians to instill terror for political gain. Releasing classified documents, while it may embarass governments, does not instill terror.
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