Julian Assange: Enemy of the State

OK my Libertarian friends, do you still feel like defending Julian Assange?

Yesterday he released A Terrorists Guide to Critical Stuff They Should Blow Up ASAP.

The geographical range of the document on installations is extraordinary, our correspondent says. If the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror" then this represents a global directory of the key installations and facilities - many of them medical or industrial - that are seen as being of vital importance to Washington. Some locations are given unique billing. The Nadym gas pipeline junction in western Siberia, for example, is described as "the most critical gas facility in the world".

Yeah, that's exactly what a guy who's fighting for Truth, Justice, and The American Way would do. But go ahead, keep hanging your hats on the "free speech" canard.

We've also recently been informed that he's distributed a "doomsday file", encrypted for now, but ready at a moment's notice to be unlocked if he's "detained" or his WikiLeaks website is shut down.

This "poison pill" is suspected of containing millions of unreleased and unredacted documents stolen by disgraced PFC Bradley Manning prior to his capture. But I'm sure you "I hate the government" types are totally cool with the idea of al Qaeda finding out everything we've ever learned about them from our guests in Guantanamo Bay.

Handing the sworn enemies of the United States a treasure trove of information is but a small price to pay for "freedom of the press", right?

Speaking of "the press", try this one on for size. "Their job is not to protect the US." Because, you know, the US and our First Amendment protects them. I get the feeling that if some file clerk had handed Time magazine the plans for Operation Overlord we'd all be speaking German right now and they'd be pleased as punch with themselves.

Meanwhile, 5 major news organizations are "advising" Assange on how and when to release his next document dump. Tell me oh sagacious defenders of liberty, exactly when does Article III, Section III trump your precious First Amendment? Never, right?

And yes our friends at The New York Times are on that list. The day Pinch Sulzberger is hauled into the dock for treason will be a great day for America. It's a scene which is long overdue.

Oh, but go ahead, keep telling me that WikiLeaks is all about the noble cause of "truth". Well, guess what. It's only "truth" unless somebody is willing to pay to keep it secret. Ayup, Assange only publishes what he can't sell.

There you have it Libertarians, your caped-crusader is in reality just another run-of-the-mill extortionist. For the right price he'd probably sell his own mother.

Maybe Hillary Clinton can make a joke about that too.

Posted at 11:17 by Chris Wysocki   [/terrorism]   Comments | Perm Link |
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