WikiLeaks!…….now here is the subject of the week……everyone has an opinion on what is to be done with this Assange dude that has leaked these quarter million documents…I have heard that he is guilty of treason or something just as strong…..as I think back to the release of the “Pentagon Papers” by Daniel Ellsberg (yes I am that old!) I recall hearing a bunch of the same criticism….that Ellsberg was killing American soldiers or that it would harm our diplomatic mission for years to come…..on and on and on……
To begin with…this latest release of previously secret documents is mostly gossip, NOT intel of any kind….I mean when you have emails or the like that calls Sarkozy a “naked emperor”…..that is NOT something that is classified……yes there has been some released that could be seen as some sort of secret….. but treason?
I heard Mike Huckabee say that the person releasing these was guilty of treason and should be executed…..made me think back…..some little toad named Scooter outed an active CIA agent named Plame…..did anyone on the Right call for him to be executed? Do not hurt yourself….NO THEY DID NOT! Even though it is a massive crime to do so…..this is just a political football….it is a use of news to make points back home and reinforce the idea of “American Exceptionalism”……..
But the airwaves are full of people, some well intentioned, calling for someone’s head….mostly the head of Assange….but ask yourself this…..
How did a lowly PFC get access to all this info if we have such a good security system in place for our computer system that is so basic to our national security? And now the US has changed the way info is accessed…kinda like closing the proverbial barn door after the cows have made their escape……and is NO one looking at the higher ups that allowed this type of thing to happen? I mean the Minister of Defense in S. Korea resigned after the N. Korea attack last week….why is the US placing the blame solely on the shoulders of this lowly analyst….apparently it was not that hard to retrieve the info….someone at the top was asleep at the wheel….and they are the REAL criminals in this continuing saga……I am sure this is FAR from over!
Another point…..this is being used to avoid talking about the real issues that face Americans….lack of jobs, a struggling economy……it is all smoke and mirrors….hoping that the American people will feel betrayed by someone other than their elected officials…..nice try….but it does not work…..well maybe on idiots!
Yeah – it’s all really a huge diversion tactic – like you often say, blowing smoke up the public’s ass…
Incidentally, did you know that was actually a REAL remedy that was believed to work back in the 1700s (or something like that) if a patient was unconscious from drowning (or near drowning), the prescribed treatment was to blow tobacco smoke up the victim’s ass with a bellows or a pipe – I kid you not! Nowadays of course we know way better, don’t we? If someone has cancer, for instance, we we feed them horrific poisons and/or subject them to enough radiation to fell an ox…
Ah, well… 😆
So now I know where the term blowing smoke up my ass came from….see learned something……
We are never too old, are we? 😆
Not ever! Just wish my body would listen…LOL
Good post. I like that drew the line to Scooter. The calls for Assange’s assassination reveal a stunning level of hypocrisy and brutishness.
Meanwhile, our economy is still in the toilet and we’re wasting billions in counterproductive wars.
Morning Chris……thanx…..like I said it is all a mis-direction….trying to keep the voter dazed and confused….