It's been a while since this mess with Wikileaks started. But, I can't seem to let it go. To the extent that I have ceased informing myself of news across the board. Bit dysfunctional? Perhaps. But...I'm disturbed more than I've been before with our politico elite. And it's all over this whole Wikileaks thing. Pro or against Assange, why do the "leaders" of our country want to take him down? Well, the answer is simple, they've got something to hide.
I'm not sure what worries me more, our political system's reaction to Wikileaks, which again, is fairly disturbing, because freedom is the stalwart this country was built upon, if anything is, but apparently, and suddenly, there are limits to these freedoms after all; for our safety of course, and that means limits to information, transportation, soon we'll have limits on the Internet itself, that, or some people's defense of our political system's reaction to Wikileaks. There are some that would argue our government is doing the right thing. He should be stopped. The reasons are myriad, homeland defense, espionage, treason, etc., but can you really build a case on any of these. I mean really, Nixon, Clinton, Dubya Bush? What I mean is, are the freedoms, and blood, this country was built upon only for citizens living within its borders? Oh, they argue, if an American citizen was doing this he/she would be arrested and charged too. Oh, ok, thanks for clarifying the debate for me, that makes it better.
Just to show you the hypocrisy..."there is no indication yet that the US government is considering espionage charges against The New York Times, even though the newspaper, like Wikileaks, published stolen classified documents. Prosecuting a news organization like The Times would be virtually without precedent in the United States. If government lawyers go after Wikileaks, they would probably argue that it is not a news organization." (NPR.org, Assange, Manning: Parallels, But Links Unclear)
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