Wikileaks

[AiA in Atlanta]

WikiLeaks: guilty parties 'should face death penalty'
Leading US political figures have called for the death penalty to be imposed on the person who leaked sensitive documents to whistle-blower website WikiLeaks as anger intensified against those responsible for the international relations crisis.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... nalty.html

There you go. They are so predictable. They will set an example of this poor sod.

"Death penalty," "Assassination" ?? Good God

[Super Nova]

The American need some to be responsible, kill them, feel better about themselves.

The fact that they don't appologise for the stupid things they say or think and hide from the world and state the opposite publically in careful staged communications is not the point.

The problem is that someone has leaked the truth about them and there real thoughts and opinions.

It is like been could for lying or stealing or murder and you are sorry you got caught (not for sin/crime).

[boxy]

Is anyone else surprised by how unsurprising these leaks have been? We've been hearing this shit for years. The only difference is the scale of the documents being released in batches.

Will prosocuting Assange (for unrelated Swiss crimes) stop the leaks? I doubt it. The internet community rails against being ruled. Someone will step up behind him... many someones.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Imagine that Mr. Wikileaks is only the front man and has some influential yet invisible support from high places.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Free speech?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/01 ... amazon_us/

[mantra]

Will prosocuting Assange (for unrelated Swiss crimes) stop the leaks? I doubt it. The internet community rails against being ruled. Someone will step up behind him... many someones.

Yes unfortunately - he will suddenly disappear. Governments don't like their gossip & plots revealed to the public. Much of the information released is just confirming what we suspected anyway about Bush et al.

[IQSRLOW]

What the conspirinuts are disheartened by is the lack of any real juicy bits that would confirm their paranoia.

So far all that has come out is diplomatic cables confirming that the authors formed opinions of their contacts. Big fucking deal

[mantra]

So far all that has come out is diplomatic cables confirming that the authors formed opinions of their contacts. Big fucking deal

Mostly that is true, although there have certainly been references to conversations and plans between international leaders. So why are some countries (especially the US) talking treason, anarchy, execution, interpol, terrorism and rape? Is it illegal to have unprotected sex in Sweden? It's all a bit pathetic that one savvy bloke can be under so much threat from a posse for distributing so little incriminatory evidence - yet. I assume it will be delivered in the event of him disappearing.

Assange may very well be the Che Guevara of the 21st century.

[IQSRLOW]

Dream on

He released info provided by a disenchanted fag because he has an anti-American agenda. He has done nothing except release a swag of private information en-bloc.

If he had any brains, any information should have been released in snippets to real journalists and the object of his hate (the US) made to sweat it out in anticipation of what might be coming next

[J.W. Frogen]

Boxy hits on a significant point, other than the gossip about world leaders (which a seasoned diplomat should never put in cables) there is nothing really surprising about the policy revelations.

Why?

Because the US is the most open world power in history with a free press and freedom of information act which reveals most of this without leaks.

Indeed I think the US comes out looking quite good in most of the policy leaks. Look at Iran, while the Sunni Gulf states are jumping up and down screaming for a military strike the US replies calmly, give diplomacy a chance.

As for Assange, his political commentary may be infantile but his dissemination of information he did not swear to keep secret or steal (his source or soucres did) is hardly a crime in my book.

Rather than blame him the US should thank him for revealing how porous their classification system is (which will come as no surprised to anyone serving in the military) and perhaps get them to guard the serious secrets, names of agents in foreign countries, more carefully.