Posted on 12/01/2010 9:08:28 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
Edited on 12/01/2010 10:14:06 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Thanks, much appreciated!
Again, as you pointed out, it has to be made clear that there are secrets out there legitimately classified as such. Troop movements. Defense plans. Estimations of enemy forces. Diplomacy in progress. Certain matters pertaining to espionage (although checks are needed on that — there is legal espionage and there is illegal espionage!). On the whole, secrets are kept regarding matters which, if the enemy were to discover what was known, their position would be significantly stronger.
It is absolutely unacceptable within a system of truly limited government, however, to keep secrets because it makes your job easier and ensures you will not be held accountable for what you say and do. That is what our officials have been doing and that is what these leaks reveal. Our “leaders’” heads should roll and they know it.
They also know that their only defense is to convince us that our interests are the same as theirs and that our lives and livelihoods are at stake as well. Those in the media that collude with them due to having a vested interest in the government will fight tooth and nail to convince you of this.
Really, as distasteful as this might all be we should really be looking into what these leaks say and not focus so much on defending people who, in the course of an ordinary day, we know to be the real problem with this country.
Bingo. We need a reset in this country and now is as good a time as any.
And if it turns out that people we previously liked or thought were honorable tur out to be lying thves, so be it.
I don’t go along with the “Let’s kill assange” nonsense.
He provided a very very valuable service as far as I can tell.
Guess what, the same people trashing him are the same ones who would bepraising him if he leaked emails proving BO was born in Kenya.
The main culprit here is manning in my mind, not assange.
Well duh, Soros, who runs Wikileaks, is a Jew who hates Jews and has all the leftist Jews following him...
I think we both know why Damscus will become a smoking ruin.....
BTW, do you think 0bama is being medicated? The clip on Fox last night, BOR's segment on body language, showed 0bama being interviewed by Barbara Walters. His eyes sure have that half-lidded look that drug users have.....
Samantha Powers = Brzezinski accolyte.
His eyes have that distant look. I agree. But that’s also how evasive looks. You just know he’s lying.
But still, I think I speak for all FReepers when I say that all the leakers should be publicly executed for exposing the corruption in government.
The little people don't have a need to know what their government is doing! Information is dangerous! I'm so afraid! Did someone say terrorists were under my bed?
This is sarcasm. You can't trust the government. Wikileaks is just emphasizing that fact.
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