[SmithL]

I'd say shooting this messenger is entirely appropriate.

[cripplecreek]

This isn’t the way I heard the story about Murdoch’s father.

As Rupert Murdoch told it, his father wrote the story and took it to parliment to give them a chance to correct the situation before publishing his story.

[stilloftyhenight]

The trouble with Julian is that the leaks are one-sided. How about leaking some of those Chinese and Saudi documents? Europe?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Julie is full of himself. Who the hell asked him to be “the messenger?” I suppose that if he was ever on the battlefield, he’d see nothing wrong with sneaking over to tell the enemy’s artillery and mortar crews the exact coordinates to our positions. Message THIS fairy boy!!! I hope they lock your goatsmelling, commie wiki@$$ up!

[PDMiller]

Shoot the PFC who provided the 1/4 million documents first. We’ll argue about this guy later.

[rabidralph]

OTOH, if we had people in the government who took their oath seriously and knew how to safeguard secrets and access to them, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Shame on Julian for blithely releasing information without regard to the consequences but double-shame on us for not protecting our national security.

[pallis]

When Julian is through playing his games, and WikiLeaks has leaked all it is going to leak, the world won’t be any better off, no troops saved, no children fed, no international relationships strengthened. And this rubberless freak will tire of being a hero in prison.

[TigersEye]

Where are the calls to shoot Cong. Jim McDermott?

[SnakeDoctor]

The messenger always says that.

[From the movie '300'] Messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.

King Leonidas: [to himself: thinking] "Earth and water"?

[Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat]

Messenger: Madman! You're a madman!

King Leonidas: Earth and water? You'll find plenty of both down there.

Messenger: No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger!

King Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same! Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!

King Leonidas: Madness...?

[shouting]

King Leonidas: This is Sparta!

[Kicks the messenger down the well]

SnakeDoc

[paristwelve]

I agree with Assange. I’m glad he’s releasing the documents.

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[Lancey Howard]

I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully.

There he sounds like he sympathizes with normal, working, taxpaying, traditional American families (Republicans).

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories...

And there he sounds like a scumbag Democrat.

[mnehring]

He is no ‘messenger’, he is a hacker who engages in espionage. He is no different than a Soviet spy who recruits American traitor operatives to sell information.

Add to that, I see Paristwelve received a virtual version of the punishment for those who support spies.

[manc]

no he should not be the first shot at all.

FOX slammed wikileaks this morning for disclosing info and then went on to say how the Libyans told the Uk that they had best release the terrorist.

Now FOX , NY Times etc and the rest have no problem releasing info wikileaks puts out but has a problem wikileaks releasing the info.

WTH hypocrisy.
The real villain here is the private and the media who are telling the public that this is all wikileaks but never mentioning the private.
WHY?
Because he’s a queer who stole the info because of don’t ask.

you want to shoot someone then get this queer private who stole the info because of a queer agenda and get the chain of command for being so switched off.

[CSM]

I have to admit that I am a bit torn on this issue.

[Mr. Silverback]

Shoot him. Since this was an act of war, a trialis unnecessary.