Wiki-thinks someone needs an ASS WHIPPING
by BenthamiteJuly 29th, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Filed under: News Story Commentary, Other Discursive Dialogue
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When I first heard of WikiLeaks, the site that offers a "public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public," I thought it was a cool idea. But now I'm wavering. In the references section of this article is a CNN story on how military documents released on Wikileaks could be endangering the lives of troops and foreign civilians. The story also expresses that the FBI will be involved in investigating the how the documents leaked. Bottom line, some documents are sensitive, and therefore not shared, for a reason. The line has to be drawn somewhere in terms of what can be shared and what can't. A Hollywood story, that's one thing, but leaking on your country's military operation, that's quite different. I haven't done any research yet on what options the government has in this situation regarding WikiLeaks. If it were in China, we know what the hell they would do. Anyhow, this is America, where we perpetually must perform the balancing act on what's free speech and what isn't. But because this is America, it's also where we can say, affirmatively, that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, deserves an ASS WHIPPING ---  |
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Okay, so we have Assange talking about 15,000 unreported deaths. Well, Ahmadinejad is failing to report 5,600,000 to 6,250,000 deaths by denying the Holocaust. Is Assange working on that file also? This is parable, of course, for my point to follow.
I do think war crimes deserve the utmost attention; and, if Assange's claim that not one death has resulted from his release of classified documents is true, then he is deserving of merit, seemingly. But the picture is must larger. If after-the-fact deaths of informants, etc., and increased resistance or, better termed, insurgencies result, then I would think his actions would be like cutting his nose to spite his face.
Furthermore, are we willing to accept increased safe-harboring in Pakistan and the spread of deadly groups which have demonstrated indisputable hate toward much of the civilized world? Given the said intelligence, I wonder if Assange could better assuage his constituents by suggesting a remedy of his own. Are we inciting another round of opportunity for Muslim conquest in the world? Even though we all know not all Muslims would entertain such an idea, ramifications, recently exemplified through Ground Zero, have already evidenced unmanageable uncertainty.
When we measure the pros and cons of Assange's release and rhetoric, I only wish to suggest that coupling the release with an explicit remedy would be prudent and better received by many.
Following my last critique regarding the questionable motives Julian Assange, it's only appropriate that I link to his Blog, now removed from the Web yet accessible through web.archive.org:
IQ.ORG
His last (archived) post was 29 August 2007.