Wikileaks is like a high school girl's very personal diary falling out of her backpack at school. In no time at all, everyone is pouring through it to see what she wrote about them. Every tiny criticism is blown out of proportion and the girl has to go into full-time damage control mode.
Elsewhere, Dean isn't impressed by the whole thing while Secular Apostate is less sanguine.
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So you don't side with Bill'O in calling for Assange to be executed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/oreilly-wikileaks-leakers-executed_n_789654.html
On the one hand, I can see where the government has some things they'd like to keep secret, even if they aren't horrible. Heck, I like a bit of privacy myself.
On the other hand, we as individuals effectively only get privacy from the government as long as they are willing to allow it, and of late they are showing more tendency to not allow it. So why should the government have any more of an expectation of privacy than what they extend to us?
I really haven't decided yet whether to exert any outrage, though, I'm trending towards putting up my Christmas lights this evening.
I like the diary analogy.
Kelly, I think Wikileaks is a treasonous offense. I don't know if we still shoot traitors, but if we do, this guy would be a good candidate for it.
Tim, the government - citizen relationship is not symmetric. If it were, we could tax Tim Geithner.
;-)
"Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
- Sir John Harington, 1561-1612
(Poet, Courtier to Elizabeth I, and Inventor of the modern flush toilet. And the "John" that they are named after).
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