re: #508 Charles

No … “wow” is finding out that the Russian representative for Wikileaks is a notorious Holocaust denier and raving, deranged antisemite. Now, that’s a “wow.”

Something I strongly condemn. I am not an uncritical supporter of WL. But their Advisory Board also has Chinese dissidents, for example.

If there is one thing you should really worry about, it’s the revival of the nefarious Espionage Act of 1917 in order to prosecute Assange and WL, or the current proposals of Lieberman.

The U.S. government will then be able to prosecute anyone who publishes, republishes or just talks and writes about something that the government has classified.

That will be interesting to watch when a future Republican President orders scientific results he doesn’t like to be classified. Maybe about AGW.

In that case the First Amendment won’t be worth the paper it’s written on. And every authoritarian state in the world will be enthusiastic because the U.S. is giving away every argument against the suppression of free media.

Yes WL needs to do a better job to protect innocent people. But to say that they don’t give one shit about human lives is a rather broad brush you are using here.

I wouldn’t miss Assange, and certainly not Shamir.