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Originally Posted by tesla69
What do you suggest? They couldn't get resolution through established outlets - in this world you end up dead or in jail - there are lists of DEA people who are now jailed because they tried to stop the Pseudo-Feds from running dope. And maybe they didn't have the need for media attention as you suggest, but just wanted to get the information out there for us to decide. Without some corporate or federal intermediaries to water the message. You sound angry at them!
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Yet Assange went straight to those same corporate intermediaries didn't he? See, my beef is this. People keep asserting like WikiLeaks had some kind of DIY hacker ethos, some kind of pirate approach. Well, they clearly didn't. They went as mainstream as if they were plugging a New York Times Best-Seller or a weekend Blockbuster flick. Assange was at all the morning news shows, plugging the leaks. Then what happened? Oh right, Manning got arrested, Assange went into exile. Moral of the story. LAWYER up BEFORE you leak, and skip the snake-oil salesman middle-man, and do like Deep Throat, go to the legitimate media YOURSELF. If anything, leak it anonymously to THEM, but don't go through shit-bags like Assange
Speaking of shady as WikiLeaks..
From NY Times this this morning
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Mr. Snowden thanked Russia in a statement issued by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization that has been assisting him.
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How interesting,.. The sad part is that Snowden might actually think that Russia of all places is safe for him!
Russia!!
I think the moral of the Manning-WikiLeaks story is that in this era, if you want to be a pirate or a rebel, you got stay underground. This isn't like the 1960s or the 1990s, this is more like the 1950s or the 1980s, where the government shuts that shit down without mercy, because by and large the American public supports this, and further, its not like in the 50s or 80s where people were ignorant or not informed, people are over-saturated with information and yet, sighs, alas, they seem more crass then ever.
