[QUOTE=GunFox;26536228]Until assange shows up in court for the rape case and he releases the key.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, everyone wanting him jailed or shot hasn't thought things through.
[QUOTE=GunFox;26527748]It isn't censorship, it's the government trying to put an end to a security leak. Christ.
For the billionth time: Whistleblowing is not only legal, but PROTECTED, in the United States. But that only applies if you only release information which suggestions corruption or illicit practices of some sort. When you also release things like personal conversations between ranking government officials, or a list of locations which the United States considers prime targets for terrorism, you are no longer a whistleblower, you are a serious security threat.
Now couple that with the "insurance" file floating about which supposedly contains uncensored documents, and he is putting a great deal of lives at risk without cause.
You DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT. It takes 30 seconds of basic fucking logical thinking to realize that a completely transparent government is completely non-functional and invites corruption to the extreme.[/QUOTE]
I want to know all the bad stuff so I can judge them
I don't like our government sugar coating that everything is fine and that they're the best
[QUOTE=Nerts;26536280]Yeah, everyone wanting him jailed or shot hasn't thought things through.[/QUOTE]
Nah, it's really the only play. They can't allow him to hold the western world hostage.
[QUOTE=GunFox;26536351]Nah, it's really the only play. They can't allow him to hold the western world hostage.[/QUOTE]
Their discrediting him was going pretty well untill we found out the "rape" charges weren't anything of the sort.
[QUOTE=Nerts;26536507]Their discrediting him was going pretty well untill we found out the "rape" charges weren't anything of the sort.[/QUOTE]
If what the women said were true, it would fall under a rape charge.
[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;26525043]Assange is stuck in a real life movie thriller.[/QUOTE]
He's living the fucking life. Doing important things, wanted by multiple countries, goddamn he's going to die a happy man.
GunFox is exactly right. All governments have a right to some degree of privacy - while we as citizens have a right to know about what concerns us, we do not and should not need to be informed on every single detail, lest our government's ability to act break down. One point which (I think) has not been raised yet is the disastrous implications for trust and information sharing that the mass, indiscriminate leakage of classified documents has. Particularly between intelligence agencies, not all information needs to be published to the world and thus have its authors demonised. If governments, organisations, individuals and all other entities feel they are not able to distribute full, complete information without it becoming public, such information sharing will either cease or become diluted, dishonest or incomplete, resulting in a government which is not fully informed, and thus not fully able to respond to situations and act.
And he will be greeted by a sea of rabid 'roos.
I think the real question is: Why the fuck would he go back to Australia when he has a god damn cold war bunker in sweden protecting his shit?
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26541793]I think the real question is: Why the fuck would he go back to Australia when he has a god damn cold war bunker in sweden protecting his shit?[/QUOTE]
he's in great britan.
[QUOTE=Explosions;26527907]Every government has extremely dangerous secrets.[/QUOTE]
except north korea
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[QUOTE=GunFox;26527748]It isn't censorship, it's the government trying to put an end to a security leak. Christ.
For the billionth time: Whistleblowing is not only legal, but PROTECTED, in the United States. But that only applies if you only release information which suggestions corruption or illicit practices of some sort. When you also release things like personal conversations between ranking government officials, or a list of locations which the United States considers prime targets for terrorism, you are no longer a whistleblower, you are a serious security threat.
Now couple that with the "insurance" file floating about which supposedly contains uncensored documents, and he is putting a great deal of lives at risk without cause.
You DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT. It takes 30 seconds of basic fucking logical thinking to realize that a completely transparent government is completely non-functional and invites corruption to the extreme.[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry, do I work for my government, or do they work for me? Because I believe in a democratic country the government works for me... Though I guess there isn't really a [i]true[/i] democratic country in North America, now is there?
[QUOTE=OutOfPop;26542060]I'm sorry, do I work for my government, or do they work for me? Because I believe in a democratic country the government works for me... Though I guess there isn't really a [i]true[/i] democratic country in North America, now is there?[/QUOTE]
It's a Republic. They work for you, so you don't have to know this shit.
Obviously there are some things that just aren't important for us to know.. But more often than not wikileaks has been showing us WAR CRIMES that the very same government has kept from public eyes.
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