WikiDrama

I'm not buying it: people leak damaging information to a website that publishes it, eventually. Too many problems here...  how come a buck private (the supposed leaker) can get his hands on such a wide range of info?  My Mac can isolate info among unlimited users on the same machine.  This kid had access to helicopter pilot war crimes AND Hillary's inquiry as to Argentina gal-prez prescriptions choices?

How come the internet to leak it?  The Shah of Iran and his bloody Savak were brought down by audio cassette tapes.  Why not just make 100 cd's of the info and drop them off at various media outlets... ?  They would multiply like locusts.

Where is the news in what is leaked?  We already knew USA does some nasty things in war, as in the helicopter gunship murder of civilians.  We did not need wikileaks to show it. We knew that ever since Sherman marched to Atlanta.  This new set of documents so far is nothing but snarky chatter among people who are paid to travel and party.  The "revelation" that Saudi Arabia funds al qaeda is nothing new.  Our attackers on 9-11 were Saudi Arabians.  Who cares?  The powers that be know we will not object.  These outrages also demonstrate what we already knew: there is no anti-war movement in USA.

Some right wingers are demanding wikileaks founder be killed.  Aside from desensitizing the rest of us to murder, such calls scandalize us into thinking anything released on the net could warrant a death penalty.  Does anyone doubt that if Assange was a serious danger, he would not have been whacked by now.  The legal challenges and "investigations" seem like just so much theatre.

One theme that bothers me is the idea that the sum total of the released documents provides justification for war on Iran.  I suppose if wikileaks released a list of Julia Child's favorite recipes the intel derived would warrant an immediate attack on Tehran.

That Hillary is gathering personal information on other leaders is nothing new.  She did it as first lady, getting caught with the FBI files on USA politicians, through the letter H, wasn't it?  Digging dirt for blackmail is nothing new.   It is important for blackmailers to let targets know the blackmailer has the goods.  By these means, Hillary can let very many people know what she has on them.

The other weird thing is how come we need a wikileaks?  The Pentagon Papers were taken to the NYTimes. There are countless websites that would kill to get such juicy tidbits to release and drive the google-ad revenue through the roof.  In the measure that wikileaks becomes the "go-to" place to leak info, is the measure that the powers that be can monitor who is leaking what, and take pre-emptive action on anything really important being released.

All of this drama will contribute eventually, to a lockdown on the internet.  We'll be herded into AOL-like internets (based in Dulles, VA, not to put too fine a point on it) so we can still do our banking and such, and where we can be watched more closely.  We will have a license to get in the information superhighway, and facebook, incuding your biometrics, will be mandatory.   Wherever you walk, biometrics scanners will trace you, and you'll be glad, since the TSA is will minimized at airports.  They will be invading peoples homes pre-emptively, like we did in Iraq.  I am going to buy a typewriter.  A typewriter repair shop will be good business.

I just finished a book by a French diplomat describing the breakdown of the French government in the face of the Nazi threat and invasion, Tragedy in France an Eyewitness Account. His book is something of a post-mortem, and a theme I noticed is how at various times, when Hitler's adversaries are sizing Hitler up, a third party in the know would comment, "You have no idea who you are up against."

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