Wikileaks debate

[Taco John]

Thought this was pretty good:

[Taco John]

I see this as modern tabloid journalism clashing with true and genuine pure in it's nature actual journalism. The founding fathers gave us a solution for this situation.

Here's one good reason why:
"I fear the newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

[mhgaffney]

Yes, I agree. Good post.

[Obushma]

Townsend, typical pillow biting Boomer, she got tore up.

[Odysseus]

Glen Greenwald was very clear on his points however the people in power will remain in power because a divided nation, ultimately, cannot care about larger issues.

I don't think anyone is going to storm the Bastille for Julian Assange.

Let freedom wait or survive jurisprudence.

[TonyR]

Interesting read from Greenwald.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...2/11/campaigns


The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is self-evidently pernicious; that it's being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and the DOJ-recommended Hunton & Williams demonstrates how common this is. These highly experienced firms included such proposals because they assumed those deep-pocket organizations would approve and it would make their hiring more likely.

But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power. I've written many times about this issue -- the full-scale merger between public and private spheres -- because it's easily one of the most critical yet under-discussed political topics. Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power.

Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former.

[TonyR]

Here's a good summary of the issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us...s.html?_r=2&hp

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by TonyR

Interesting read from Greenwald.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...2/11/campaigns


The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is self-evidently pernicious; that it's being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and the DOJ-recommended Hunton & Williams demonstrates how common this is. These highly experienced firms included such proposals because they assumed those deep-pocket organizations would approve and it would make their hiring more likely.

But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power. I've written many times about this issue -- the full-scale merger between public and private spheres -- because it's easily one of the most critical yet under-discussed political topics. Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power.

Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former.

If we don't fix this, it will be the end of the United States as a free republic.

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by TonyR

Interesting read from Greenwald.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...2/11/campaigns


The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is self-evidently pernicious; that it's being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and the DOJ-recommended Hunton & Williams demonstrates how common this is. These highly experienced firms included such proposals because they assumed those deep-pocket organizations would approve and it would make their hiring more likely.

But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power. I've written many times about this issue -- the full-scale merger between public and private spheres -- because it's easily one of the most critical yet under-discussed political topics. Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power.

Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former.

How do you get around the Constitution?

Outsource!