Wikileaks, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #197
December 10, 2010 Michael Davis 7 Comments
I KNOW that America is up to some bad shit. Every nation on earth is up to some bad shit.
Do I want to know what bad shit?
No. No I do not.
I will stick my head in the sand faster than you can say, “ There’s an horny sexy Asian girl under the sand ” to avoid knowing depressing shit.
I have made it a point not to get involved with things where I have no means to influence the outcome.
Voting?
Give me a fucking break, that’s SO not the same thing as giving a fuck because there a top secret memo that says North Korea should be bombed back into the stone age.
North Korea should be bombed back into the Stone Age.
So what if there is a memo, which states The Queen Of England, is an ugly old bitch who fights dogs?
Yes, they are our allies. You don’t think they have secret memos that talk shit about us? Shit, they must have a damn library of shit talking memos when Bush was President.
To: Queen Elizabeth
From: Prince Charles
RE: Bush is one bloody stupid motherfucker
Cc: The Palace, Parliament, Sir Elton John
My God, Bush is one bloody stupid motherfucker.
Charles
Freedom of the press?
Give me another fucking break.
Let’s be real. Not Hollywood real, but real, REAL.
If someone you loved would be put in danger because of a leaked document would you support Freedom of the press?
Me? HELL NO.
What about the civil rights workers who died in support of the movement?
Give me a third fucking break.
The civil rights movement and ANY action in support of human rights is worth dieing for. But to put lives in danger simply because of the ‘right to know’ is BULLSHIT.
Julian Assange the Wikileaks founder is in jail on rape charges. Did he do it? I could GIVE A FUCK if he did or not.
That’s the REAL world. I hope they bury his ass in jail for the next 50 years regardless if he did it or not. We all KNOW that he’s not facing jail time because of the rape charges. It’s because that fucking Australian motherfucker stuck his dick in the business of America for NO other reason than to make a buck.
FUCK HIM.
OJ Simpson has been sentenced to 30 years to life on his first offence. Think about that for a moment. OJ Simpson had NO criminal record when a Nevada judge threw the book at him. EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE knew that OJ was being punished for killing those 2 white people back in the day not for the bullshit ‘robbery’ charge.
That’s real.
Julian Assange and the assholes at Wikileaks put REAL people at risk by leaking shit from America that should have remained secret if for no other reason because it would endanger REAL people.
Not comic book people, not movie people, not people in books, REAL PEOPLE.
I’m guessing right about now Julian’s wishing those women who accused him would have kept their mouths shut.
Sorry Julian, the world has a right to know.
Doug Abramson
December 10, 2010 - 8:36 am
The general public might be impressed by the crap this idiot dug up, but anyone who knows history should be bored. Our diplomats collect intelligence, even on our friends? NO SHIT! Its the way that game has been played from the beginning. Our diplomats talk crap about our friends in secret cables? Oh no! Give me a break! The Pentagon has plans somewhere to INVADE our friends. Just in case. That includes Canada! Its called being prepared. I don’t care if this idiot goes to jail or not. I just want him to go away.
Mike Gold
December 10, 2010 - 8:50 am
“North Korea should be bombed back into the Stone Age.” That’s redundant.
Despite media babble Julian Assange is NOT in jail on rape charges. He hasn’t been charged with anything, and he hasn’t even been accused of rape. He’s wanted for questioning. He’s been accused by two women of either using a defective condom or not using one at all, and both demand he be tested for STDs. All that is well and good and necessary, but to hold somebody in prison without bail for not going to Sweden for a blood test strikes me of U.S. influence.
Wikilink published nothing of value. Of the, what, half-million memos leaked only about 15,000 were classified as Secret. NONE were classified as Top Secret.
Do you know how many people have Top Secret clearance? 854,000. That’s TOP Secret clearance. Imagine 854,000 people keeping a secret. Then go redefine “secret.”
How many people have Secret clearance? Millions. You know that overweight doll who fondled your balls at LAX last week? That TSA employee making a hair above minimum wage? SHE’S got secret clearance. She was cleared to read ALL of those leaked memos.
Outing Valerie Plume put far more people at risk than the release of those diplomats’ memos. And quite frankly, if people are going to accuse Assange of treason (hey, Palin, he’s Australian!) then they should be going after The Guardian (UK magazine), Der Spiegel (German magazine) and the New York Times (Communist birdcage lining) — they all had the story before Assange.
Assange is no Daniel Ellsburg. He’s just another noisy asshole.
MOTU
December 10, 2010 - 12:44 pm
Mike,
‘but to hold somebody in prison without bail for not going to Sweden for a blood test strikes me of U.S. influence.’
…and THAT’S the way the game is played. Did the dick head think he could hide from Clinton?
Oh and that rape thing, that MUST be true someone leaked it.
MOTU
December 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Mike,
‘Wikilink published nothing of value. Of the, what, half-million memos leaked only about 15,000 were classified as Secret. NONE were classified as Top Secret.’
It was not his place to publish ANY of that shit.
Man: Don’t tell my wife I’m sleeping with another woman, it’s a secret.
Friend: I already told her, she’s been on the phone all day with her lawyer.
Man: I TOLD YOU IT WAS A SECRET!!!
Friend: Yes you did, but it wasn’t TOP secret.
Jonathan (the other one)
December 10, 2010 - 4:55 pm
Hell, most of what I saw was stamped “CONFIDENTIAL – NOFORN”, which is security-speak for “You’re only cleared to know this if you’re an American citizen.” “NOFORN” stands for “No FOReign Nationals”.
Assange isn’t some “crusader for truth”, blowing the whistle on tyrannical government – he’s the Internet equivalent of a troubled three-year-old smearing shit on the walls because he can. I boldly predict that within ten years, “Wikileaks scandal” will have about as much public resonance as “Teapot Dome” does today.
Vinnie Bartilucci
December 10, 2010 - 7:57 pm
SNL had it right when they reported OJ’s Conviction: “OJ Simposn was found guilty this week of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery, but really, murder.”
Those cops who…ahem…apprehended Rodney King were the first modern example of the mindset “We have to find them guilty of SOMEthing!” that has become so popular.
It’s one of those cases where yes, it could technically be argued that it’s double jeopardy, but it’s against a person who REALLY deserves it, so maybe it’s okay. And that’s a dangerous thing, because as Captain Samuel Vimes says, once you start bending the rules for a good reason, it becomes easier to bend them for a bad reason.
They tried to do it with OJ with that second (civil) trial, but it only cost him money, and not even that cause he dropped everything into an annuity so they couldn’t touch it. So it didn’t feel like they REALLY got him, and he was so obliging to go out and do something else stupid, and everything just lined up.
So this guy is being held for nebulous reasons, and he’ll likely remain that way for a while. And again, it seems reasonable, because he did that bad thing…that no one is exactly sure of the details of.
Right now there’s exactly one truly guilty person in this whole mess; the Private who stole the documents. He’s in federal prison on espionage charges. But Assange is getting all the ink.
He’s guilty of accepting the documents and distributing them to the public. If the NY Times had done the same, it would be called news. But this guy’s got an agenda, and so his claims of freedom of unformation fall on, well, hard-of-hearing ears, at best.
Jonathan (the other one)
December 10, 2010 - 10:27 pm
The ears also have trouble hearing him because Assange is a citizen of Australia, which as I understand it isn’t quite so understanding about the whole leaking-classified-documents thing; he’s staying in Britain, home of the Official Secrets Act; and the crime he’s accused of took place in Sweden, which I understand has some rather arcane laws governing sexual conduct. He is not an American citizen, nothing he did took place in the United States, and the Bill of Rights doesn’t even come into play on this one.