re: #166 iceweasel

Even if you don’t like Greenwald, seems to me he’s spot on about this:

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that nobody was paying much attention at all to Wikileaks (and stuff Assange presumably got from Manning) even during the “Collateral Murder” release. It was basically, “Tsk tsk, one ought not release such things. Freedom of the press and all that, but they have a responsibility blah blah etc etc.”

There was stuff released around and before that time that really did put people in danger, but it wasn’t until the massive release of the State Dept. cables that everyone went banana-pants and Julian Assange became Enemy #1, and Bradley Manning Enemy #1.5.

The main takeaway I culled from what I read of the State Dept. cables is that pretty much every world leader and governmental agency is every bit as corrupt, incompetent, stupid, insane, and potentially dangerous as we’ve always suspected; everyone in power knows it; and they all bend over backwards to protect themselves and each other even as they plot ways to benefit from their eventual downfall.

These documents are not something that can be dismissed as forgeries - they are a source of real, undeniable embarrassment to various powers that be. THAT, as far as I can tell, is why Manning and Assange are up Shit Creek without a paddle.

Now, please, as an act of kindness: tell me where I’m wrong.