Wikileaks fiasco

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This whole Wikileaks fiasco, the one where some secret government documents got released to the general public, has been going on a while , and I suppose I should make a few comments on it, since it has to do with computers and all.

First point : what exactly was released ?

I see a few unkind comments made by low level flunkies .

We saw a grainy video of a guy carrying what sure looks like a big rifle to me , but the narrerator claims other wise, and then he and the other gun men (whom the narrorator does not dispute have guns) get all shot up by americans.

We see our (former )cheif of intelligence wants to turn canada into a police state to make his job easier , demonstrating he's forgotten that he's supposed to be protecting democracy ,not eradicating it. Perhaps this is why he's now "former" ?

A lot of people figured they knew what North Korea was going to do next. And then got caught with their pants down when North Korea decided to do something different.

There's nothing in these leaks. Nothing important, just bureaucrats covering their behinds and trying not to have their mistakes come to light |real or imagined mistakes).

And for this they are tracking the head of Wikileaks down , charging him with sexual assault and rape (with a prostitute, while they were doing it ...apparently she changed her mind half way throgh .. classic he said she said no witnesses present case) . And donating money to wikileaks has been shut down. Not declared officially illegal , but Visa and Master Card and Pay Pal suddenly decided not to process such transactions.

It is fascinating how undemocratic our democratic nations can act. I was reading an article on china about some chinese citizens getting a nobel peace prize for thwarting the government, and the terrble things the chinese were doing to him, and I kept thinking ,we're doing the exact same stuff to this guy. We're really not much different.

Which indicates maybe this Wikileaks guy is on to something. The Witch Hunt being engaged in itself affirms the very things the western democracies are trying to deny.

The second fascinating thing is the reaction to this. Private citizens are now rebelling against their "democratic" overlords by way of a volintairy program they run on their computers to form a bot net to attack the instruments of the governments. (Visa, master card, etc , who refuse to take payements.

And the news articles focus heavily on the sexual charges against this guy, but no one is biting, no one is fooled. All they're doing is identifying themselves , telling us who's a cats paw for the government and who isn't.

A new form of rebellion has arisen. In nations that formally enjoyed immunity to rebellion , because they were for the people, by the people, as the americans say. Except that that principle has been tossed aside.

And now we have a live example of why democracies were created in the first place. And what happens when they cease to function as democracies. And the controls they had on their populations slip and fall to the side, leaving nothing but an angry mob behind.

They put their hands on a live wire , these politicians, when they spent centuries preaching freedom of speach and then suddenly tossed it away. And now they will get their hands burned for doing that.