Dec 01 2010

On summarily executing Julian Assange and Dick Cheney

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Conservatives want to summarily execute Julian Assange for leaking sensitive diplomatic documents that “expose American assets,” and yet that would mean we would have to execute Dick Cheney, as well, for leaking Valerie Plame’s identity.  Is that really fair?  Dick Cheney is already among the walking dead, whereas Julian Assange appears to have a pulse.  Are their lives truly equivalent?  Would taking each life have an equivalent force of law?  Just a philosophical question, as we clearly have no laws to speak of in this country.

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    • Edger on December 1, 2010 at 14:50
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    For ooozing lies.  John Hinderaker too. And maybe crucify Michelle Malkin.

  2. whatreallyhappened.com has decided that Assange and Wikileaks are controlled by the ‘Zionists’ (dupes if not agents).  Of course, pretty much anybody or any organization which is not in line with the owner is controlled by the ‘Zionists’ (dupes if not agents).

  3. To fill “news cycles” with bullshit diversionary propaganda that to actually deliver news.

    If you want “news” even that beomes the chore of sorting out from offshore sources, biased tin foil hattery sites and interpretations of the Hopi elders.  Julian is but another blip.  He serves the false left/right paradigm well.

  4. …killing, and if you read between the lines of recent posts by Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald and even Paul Krugman, you can see all other options fading away except “direct action.”

    And of course Docudharma is also about to disappear, and all over the real Left blogosphere (and I’m not talking about about establishment shills like Markos Moulitsas) the dominant attitude is turning into “why bother?”

  5. Seems many have been influenced by the “propaganda” of our government to paint Assange as the devil from hell!

    Reality is, that Assange has merely reported what has been reported to him — period — end of story!

    Yet:

    By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MALIN RISING, Associated Press Darlene Superville And Malin Rising, Associated Press – 23 mins ago

    WASHINGTON – WikiLeaks was on the defensive on several fronts Wednesday, scrambling to remain on the Internet and post more U.S. diplomatic documents while its fugitive founder Julian Assange was targeted by a European arrest warrant on Swedish rape charges.

    Amazon.com Inc. prevented WikiLeaks from using the U.S. company’s computers to distribute embarrassing State Department communications and other documents, WikiLeaks said Wednesday. The Wiggles site was unavailable for several hours before it moved back to servers owned by its previous Swedish host, Bahnhof, which are housed in a protective Cold-War era bunker. . . . . .

    Of course, our government is “unhappy” with Assange — it really doesn’t want the American people to know the many “mirages” portrayed to us, as and for excuses to attack this nation and that and commit heinous crimes, in the name of what . . . . . ?

  6. …from Paul Craig Roberts’ essay from yesterday, 12/1 at GR:

    The influential German magazine, Der Spiegel, writes: “It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.”

    Just what we need to accelerate the devolution from empire.

     

  7. there was an issue of any greater importance than the prosecution of war criminals of the Bush Administration, I have never and still cannot accept the fact that nothing, but nothing, has been done to out and out war criminals, violating every International, as well as national laws possible, and WE still have never sought correction.  To me, this is and will prove to be our absolute downfall.  No, instead, they go about the country flaunting their books, their justifications, whatever!  

    How sick must we become before REALITY sets in?

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