KPLAFIN

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I think a better analogy would be... "the C4 you have under your bed could potentially harm people so we should stop you from illegally obtaining more of something that was already illegally obtained."

chicksdigmiatas

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Not quite, My car, My gun, My anything I own can potentially be used for harming anyone. I was bestowed with the responsibility of owning and protecting the way it is used. It would be different if there was some way of monitoring that, but there isn't. What he is doing is giving everyone, license, suspended license, blind, deaf, quadriplegic, and children cars and saying do what you will, and I claim no responsibility. Also, these cars he is giving all the 8 year old quadripelegic blind asian kids are stolen.
Just because no harm has come, doesn't mean that it can't or wont. Remember my other post. Some small small detail that seems miniscule can be used by anyone as a part of the puzzle to cause harm. He is facilitating this. The fact that it hasn't harmed anyone YET doesn't mean it is acceptable. Just because Ron Paul doesn't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there. Moreover, If this is acceptable, allowed, and endorsed by people here, something bad will happen, and then everyone will cry why didn't we do something.

Reverant

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And the gun you have could potentially kill someone, so let's ban guns.

Oh wait...

FRT_Fun

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So if someone steals all your ****, then gives it to me, and I sell it on CL I did nothing wrong? Or if someone steals a ton of CC numbers and gives them to me and I make a website and say I'm going to release 1 a day to the world I did nothing wrong?

chicksdigmiatas

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I guess no one gets it. Lets just put it like this. My brother/friend owns a baseball bat. It is secured and locked away, however, being a trusted friend or family member I am allowed access. I access the closet, to which I am trusted by my brother and take the baseball bat, because I am mad at him for digging all of the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms. So I take said bat, and give it to Captain Douchebag. He clearly doesn't have my brothers best intentions in mind, or the guy that gave him the bat either. Next, Captain Douchebag sets up a stand that says free baseball bats. So, anyone can go up and get this baseball bat and use it how ever they will. A baseball bat isn't designed to harm anyone. It is used to hit a baseball. Most people take the free baseball bats, play baseball, or argue for the rights of the baseball and say that baseballs are people too, and don't deserve to be crudely hit in a sport. So one ******* learns to use the bat to kill someone one. Now he kills your mom with the bat. Not only are you responsible for stealing the bat from your brother and you caused your mom's death, Captain douchebag is responsible for giving the bat to the guy that figured out how to use it to harm your family, therefore causing your mom's death. He facilitated the whole situation by providing the bat to your families worst enemy. Simply put, someone can take plenty of things and find out how to use them to harm you. Planes aren't missles, someone used them as such. Fertilizer isn't meant for bombs. Someone sure made it work. That is just it. Being in the military, Mr. Paul should have realized how compromising a small piece of information can be, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem or the original purpose it is intended it can be used other than intended. One small time or date or other piece that shows that we do anything a certain way can make all of the other intel that the enemy has gathered make sense. There is a reason things are secret or sensitive. The reason the private knew the information is that he was in a position that he needed to know. Everyone involved is at fault. All should be treated as enemies of the United States, because they are.

blaen99

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So, you are saying journalists and the supreme court are enemies of the US Chicks?

JasonC SBB

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_795014.html

Questions to consider:

Number 1: Do the America People deserve know the truth regarding the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?

Number 2: Could a larger question be how can an army private access so much secret information?

Number 3: Why is the hostility mostly directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?

Number 4: Are we getting our moneys worth of the 80 Billion dollars per year spent on intelligence gathering?

Number 5: Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths: lying us into war or Wikileaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?

Number 6: If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the first amendment and the independence of the internet?

Number 7: Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on Wikileaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?

Number 8: Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in a time of declared war, which is treason, and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death and corruption?

Number 9: Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it is wrong?

KPLAFIN

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You know, I'm trying to understand where you're coming from but I just can't help but break down and ask.. Do you really not see a reason that any military information should be withheld from the public? I mean I understand the fact that you're a left-winger and think the military is evil and should be dismantled and we should use our words to settle all of the worlds problems. But behind all the irrationality there has to be a kernel of common-sense that understands where we're all coming from.... or is there?


EDIT:

I still want an explanation of where the "journalism" involved in this particular situation is, I see no journalists.

AANNNDDD


QFT

KPLAFIN

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Oh great, Huffington Post, this should be interesting to read...

No, not so logn as it compromises the mission of the American military, or the lives of said men and women or our allies in these countries. End of discussion, you want to know what's going on? Join the military, otherwise its really none of your business.

Need to know situations put even us measly privates in a position to access Classified information at some points. Apparently someone at some point thought that he was worthy of the Security Clearance that he was given.

Really... we're going this route? I bet if they "protected the classified information" by putting a bullet in the kid's head the second they found out like I would like to have done, you same people would be all in an uproar about it.

How many buildings have you been in lately that were blown up? Ok then.

Which was done with (at least arguably) good intentions. The leaks were solely to **** the Government off and jeopardize everything we've been working for while "lying our way into war" was done for reasons I'm not getting into in this thread.

Freedom of speech does not protect STOLEN information that the public DOES NOT have the clearance level nor the RIGHT to see or hear. Please refer back to the purchasing stolen goods analogy earlier on this page.

Could it be that the real reason is to protect the lives of innocent Afghans/Iraqis/US Troops? Is it worth trusting that that's why JUST IN CASE? If not, then how about you come join the Army and see if that changes your opinion.

Really.... I mean come on ....REALLY? This one butt hurt *** gets all bent out of shape and releases a bunch of classified documents to get back at the Government that wronged him so horribly and all the sudden we're pulling out the "what if the governemtn is secretly killing babies with chemical weapons card and that's all he was tryign to tell us" car? Have any of these "death camps" been uncovered by the leaks? Didn't think so.

It still is, been to vote lately? In addition to that, isn't it the same people crying that wikileaks is innocent that are condeming the TEA party movement since their goal is to "radically take over the Government"?

Godless Commie

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Jesus ******* christ, KP..
If you honestly believe a word you are saying about all this, please move to a remote island. Urgently.

Wars were started with good intentions.. Holy ******* ****. Unfuckingbelievable.

KPLAFIN

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No problem, been thinking about Turkey.. Should be happy there.

Joe_Mama

Wars were started with good intentions?

Over 100000 served for what purpose?

Braineack

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If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington , DC is 80.6 per 100,000for the same period.

That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital.

Braineack

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Really? Most of the Turks are smart and move to Germany....much better benefits handouts.

Godless Commie

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Not exactly.
Most of the unemployed, undereducated and unskilled were sent to Germany during the late sixties and early seventies.

Still, incredibly astute of you, considering the fact that you live within the US borders.
This by no means an insult, nor it is meant as a derogatory remark.
It's just that an overwhelming majority of Americans are blissfully ignorant about the rest of the world.

Braineack

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The way I read it was that Germany was looking to capture cheap labor, and since there was no work in Turkey, they all left to work in Germany.

Many went back to Turkey...however, the population got out of hand during the family reunification program in the 1970s were the population doubled when Germany allowed families to move to Germany with the workers...To me, immigrating to a country that has jobs, and has an incredibly generous welfare state that allowed you to bring your family along for the ride sounds smart to me.


Anyways, all I was suggesting is that while the population in Germany is declining, the Turks make up over three times the amount of welfare recipients than German citizens themselves.

Godless Commie

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Correct on all counts, which still does not make me wrong when I say "Most of the unemployed, undereducated and unskilled were sent to Germany during the late sixties and early seventies".

Braineack

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So it's settled: Assange is in the right on his plans for the destruction of the USA!

Godless Commie

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fixed.

blaen99

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The NYT did the same thing Wikileaks did initially with the Pentagon papers, simply publishing them with no commentary.

Supreme Court additionally stated quite clearly, in a decision in this very thread, that it is not illegal to publish leaks.

Finally, Wikileaks has NOT published anything that has caused anyone harm. Get this through your heads, people. All they have done is published stuff that has embarrassed our politicians for lying and backstabbing.

Why the hell is this a bad thing? If our politicians are lying to us, shouldn't we have the right to know about it? If our politicians are backstabbers, shouldn't we have the right to know about it?