The US continues its furious and futile efforts to put the toothpaste back into the tube by censoring federal employees, military and even contractors working for the government from reading leaked ‘classified’ documents. The very men and women charged with defending the constitution and protecting our civil liberties are finding their own rights denied and even Antarctica has warned off. A memo to all United States Antarctic Program Participants forbids the use of computers, blackberries, etc… to access the US diplomatic cables.
Meanwhile, Julian Assange, now released from Wandsworth prison and on ‘manor’ arrest in England characterizes charges of rape against him as a “smear campaign”.
“It’s an incredible allegation,” he said.
“If you Google ‘rape’, one tenth of the entries come up with my name. So it’s a very successful smear campaign, but its days are numbered.
“People are starting to wonder, ‘are these allegations true? Where is the evidence?'”
Assange is also convinced the US is his greatest threat to continued freedom as the US Department of Justice digs for any possible laws Assange may have broken. One could imagine what the DoJ might be capable of accomplishing if they turned there focus on some of the terrible crimes revealed by the cables, like DynCorp using taxpayer funds to supply child prostitutes to Afghani police recruits.
Something is very wrong in the US when private companies accede to government pressure and violate their contractual obligations as PayPal, MasterCard, VISA, EveryDNS and Amazon have done despite the absence of a court order. Even OVH, and internet service provider in France, demanded a court injunction before it would consider terminating service to Wikileaks.
This morning US drone strikes killed as many as 21 ‘suspected’ militants in Pakistan. As the US wages an unauthorized war, firing on and killing ‘suspects’, it becomes increasingly difficult for the US to maintain any moral authority in the rest of the world with the result more and more global support is building behind Wikileaks.
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Imagine how US citizens would act if a foreign country fired bombs at our citizens. If they weren’t militants before the strikes, they soon become one. Obama is a pawn.
Death count is over 60 now.
But, of course they were all, every damn one of them “terrists”.
Right, and Obamas’ silver tongue told us yesterday things are “progressing” in Afghan. We know the real truth, as in Red Cross, for starters, huh?
When it comes to war now, the Dems are damn better than the GOP. Watch them brag about it. And still, Americans support them both.
Third party- no matter how long it takes.
Enuff is enough.