Wiki-Leaks Geezer ; A Sex Case ...???

Rook · December 1, 2010

Taking on the govts of superpowers is one thing. But taking down a big bank or two, well that'll get you killed.

Matt Damon · December 1, 2010

davek said:
I cant see the issue here. We have the FOI Act and the same principle holds for this wikileaks info: the right to know who's doing what and saying what to whom and for what purposes....they've just cut out the middle man and gotten the source material on an industrial scale.

The FOI Act doesn't apply to commercial entities.

johnnydawg68 · December 1, 2010

davek said:
I'm not aware they have a view of 'what will become of all this'. They are - contra the yellow dog gutter press and their pals in tv and on the net - committed to holding a mirror up to power and letting it, and us, have a long hard look at it.

You'd have probably taken a dim view of the Watergate investigations of Woodward and Bernstein.

Not even remotely the same thing Dave. You can do better than that. The Watergate investigation exposed corruption and CRIMINAL behavior at the highest levels of the US government. This is just gossip and random samples of information.

The choice is not between a world with secrets and a world in which all the citizens know whatever the government knows. The choice is between a world in which officials can share information and carry out reasoned debates with one another in private and a world in which nothing can be written down. Really, that’s a not a hard choice.

little curly alan ball · December 1, 2010

johnnydawg68 said:
Not even remotely the same thing Dave. You can do better than that. The Watergate investigation exposed corruption and CRIMINAL behavior at the highest levels of the US government. This is just gossip and random samples of information.

The choice is not between a world with secrets and a world in which all the citizens know whatever the government knows. The choice is between a world in which officials can share information and carry out reasoned debates with one another in private and a world in which nothing can be written down. Really, that’s a not a hard choice.

The REAL TIME IS ; Sex Case Man , MAY have Source GAME , But he AINT NO FUKN ORACULA ,...

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