tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post3451655245754749066..comments2023-07-21T06:38:14.648-04:00Comments on Shadow of the Hegemon: Time Magazine's Cowardly ChoiceDemostheneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14552994996411944134noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-43889319316341973462010-12-17T03:20:40.794-05:002010-12-17T03:20:40.794-05:00Nommy summed it up. Wikileaks didn't start the...Nommy summed it up. Wikileaks didn't start the conflicts, and more lives have been lost due to the hamfisted nature of the prosecution of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq than WikiLeaks could ever be blamed for. <br /><br />(Which is, to date, <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/28/104404/officials-may-be-overstating-the.html" rel="nofollow">approximately zero</a>. Rhetoric aside, "U.S. officials concede that they have no evidence to date that the documents led to anyone's death.")<br /><br />As for the twaddle about "rule of law"...the entire problem here is an intelligence apparatus that clearly sees itself as above the law and above scrutiny. How on earth can the American public possibly know if the "rule of law" is being observed? Faith?Demostheneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552994996411944134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-50516495520824922912010-12-16T04:06:25.101-05:002010-12-16T04:06:25.101-05:00The governments start wars. If anyone is getting k...The governments start wars. If anyone is getting killed, it's not Wikileak's fault. <br /><br />So far though, I'm not aware of any deaths that Wikileaks have been responsible for.<br /><br />Truth will prevail!Nommynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-47163341670599655052010-12-15T22:11:00.422-05:002010-12-15T22:11:00.422-05:00Assange isn't perfect, but he's a Hero com...Assange isn't perfect, but he's a Hero compared to any politician that has sold their soul and betrayed true democracy. Proto-fascists deem the damage done by secrecy and corruption as Assange's fault for helping patriot whistle-blowers expose the truth. Someone above wrote, "everything you support damages America"; Only if by America this person means the vested interests of a handful corporate fascists and their clingers-on. <br /><br />The rule of law only matter when the law is just, and American law is the law of Plutocracy, corporate feudalism and proto-fascism as seen in Germany just before the Nazis were elected. The US is not exceptional except in the amount and degree of delusion their media establishments has managed to program people with. American democracy is a joke. If the West keeps following the failed neo-lib American experiment we should all start learning to speak Mandarin and Cantonese.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-36137056606846350462010-12-15T21:55:07.675-05:002010-12-15T21:55:07.675-05:00Not sure how I feel about Assange--proving somethi...Not sure how I feel about Assange--proving something using targeted pieces of information is one thing, but just dumping raw data, is another--but I am sure that the Anonymous commenter has it exactly backward. If you make an allegation, you should have to back it with supporting data when challenged, not whine about spoon-feeding and offering more vague charges. (I heard the rumors and the allegations as well, but I never heard any confirmation of them from a reliable (non-biased, non-rightwing blog) source.) Put up or shut up...repsac3https://www.blogger.com/profile/15458282944035344707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-3102917939817367482010-12-15T21:40:37.757-05:002010-12-15T21:40:37.757-05:00Nobody is here to spoonfeed you. Go read up on the...Nobody is here to spoonfeed you. Go read up on the folks helping us slaughtered after the Afghanistan release, AQ's jubilant releases indicating specifically that they persued the releases for telltales and then hunted these folks down and slaughtered them, facts confirmed by Allied forces in the weeks following when the bodies turned up in droves. <br /><br />Thanks, traitor and Assange.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-65303811639311654992010-12-15T21:27:34.462-05:002010-12-15T21:27:34.462-05:00Hmm. "Scores of allies killed." If &qu...Hmm. "Scores of allies killed." If "scores" are known, should be pretty easy to find the news stories, probably even with lists of names, to link to to prove the point. . . . Beuller? Beuller?mikehttp://goodnonsense.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-23400381986929897712010-12-15T20:43:58.039-05:002010-12-15T20:43:58.039-05:00Bite me. Assange is an enemy combatant who has got...Bite me. Assange is an enemy combatant who has gotten scores of allies killed. He should be extradited as an enemy combatant, tried before tribunal, and then shot. It's easier with the actual leaker, he committed treason. Death Penalty. <br /><br />There is rule of law for a reason. If this info needed to be out there, then pass legislation to declassify it. Both these chumps lives should be forfeit for getting so many of those who helped us at enormous risk, killed. <br /><br />Don't give us the shit about loving America, when everything you support damages America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com