“The one thing that bound us all is our commitment to each other and our willingness to accomplish our duty, even at the expense of our lives.”

Good P.R., and a decent description of Pat Tillman type soldiers. My comments reflect the level who make the decisions, which are very rarely covered by your description. And which types - more recently - have Pat Tillman types assassinated, defeating Patriotism, focussing on maintenance of political correctness for the N.W.O. satanists. They defraud Americans with lies and debauchery, and punish Patriots who reveal accuracy and truth.

My gleanings from twenty years of association was acquired from a different level and angle, and perhaps broader than your vision of “grunt kameradie.”

Genuine Heroes like Gen. Frederick Franks have been flushed out, removed from mention, replaced by political “Brown-Nosers”, such as the “hot-headed, spoiled brat-type general” who took dinner in 4-star hotels, and criticized Gen. Frederick Franks for doing an efficient job and sparing American Soldiers´lives. Some of which general officers occasionally turn their brains to the “ON” position, when covering up their un-American, unpatriotic behavior.

for: drbhelthi:

You obviously know absolutely nothing about the U.S.
Military, and so your opinion is less than
meaningless.

In my service of ten years in active duty I met
people from ALL walks of life. But most, from meager
beginnings. The one thing that bound us all is our
commitment to each other and our willingness to
accomplish our duty, even at the expense of our
lives.

Anyone who cannot appreciate the importance of that
should not even be taken seriously on their comments
about the U.S. Military.

- while some of us older veterans continuously
challenge the continuous “fuck ups” of the
U.S.Military.

- and are not convinced that the day-to-day operations
of the total U.S.Military is not a continuos fuck-up.

For PatrickHenry:

In your last comment you included yourself as an “older veteran”.

Although I disagree with you opinion, I respect it….

Thanks for your service.

Much of the classified material involved is mis-labeled to hide operational fuck-ups.

We can only force ourselves on the Afghan and Iraqi people for so long, info like this needs to come out.

Many of us older veterans question the cost of American incursion into the middle east. Our military has grown too large and expensive and clumsy.

The comment by LocalHero provides an image of someone
who sounds a lot like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck,
only on the flip-side of the discussion….

The comment is nothing more than incendiary rhetoric
that is obvious on the face of it as meant to be
simply offensive. (Being that this posting can be
sent from anywhere, I wonder if this person is an
American.)

A reasonable person would have to understand that Al
Qaeda WILL definitely attack the U.S. again as soon
as they’re able to do so. The military actions that
we are involved with in Iraq may not have been
necessary at the time they were initiated, but I
completely understand the desire to strike back at
any perceived threat after the attacks of 9/11.

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, the Taliban,
without doubt, provided necessary and critically
important support to Al Qaeda that enabled the
attacks on the U.S. and other countries around the
world a decade ago. Simply looking at the cover of
the August 9th issue of Time magazine shows the kind
of mentality of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

I sincerely wish that folks (like Bradley Manning and
LocalHero) who insult and show contempt for the U.S.
and its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines would
be sent off to go live in a place controlled by the
Taliban’s Mullah Omar or the Wahhabist bin Laden.
Perhaps the U.S. wouldn’t seem so evil and criminal
after all.

But in any event, I will say that I am a 10-year
veteran of active military service, work in
electrical engineering, am politically moderate, and
I am the father of a 21-year old daughter and 17-year
old son. I follow the news nationally and
internationally, from both ideologic extremes, and in
the middle. I have traveled around the world on
numerous occasions, working in Islamic countries
including Brunei, Malaysia, Oman, as well as in
Europe and the west.

Most people want to work and raise their kids in the
hopes that things will be a little better for the
next generation.

As such, I don’t take lightly the deployment of our
troops. But it really should be obvious to everyone
who bothers to take a look at it with an unemotional
eye that there are really truly evil people out
there, like the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and the U.S. is
not automatically an imperialistic aggressor. It’s a
lot more complicated than that.

It is naivete’ in the extreme to believe that any and
all governments should be completely transparent when
it comes to matters of diplomacy and military
operations.

Bradley Manning, if guilty of divulging classified
information, where names of sources are published for
the Taliban to seek out and kill (which is already
happening), is a criminal and most definitely should
not be released from prison for many, many years to
come. Even if he is merely idealistic and well
intentioned.

Bradley Manning is a hero of the highest order. I could care less if what he’s done endangers the criminal occupiers. If any one of them had any last shred of decency and honor, he or she would lay down their weapon and pay their own way home.

May he never spend a night in jail.

All countries of the world have strict immigration
laws, and enforce them. All, except the U.S.
administration.

Which administrations, since GHWBSr support the NWO,
and are using all means possible to demean the U.S.
Citizenry, annul the U.S. economy, and collapse the
USofA.  One major tool for the last thirty years has
been to ignore immigration laws, and punish
employees who enforce immigration laws - 
assassinating a couple of patriotic, border-patrol employees.

In spite of my civilian clothes, police have stopped
my car and requested my identification, because I
was wearing a beret, instead of a ball-cap or cowboy
hat. This, twenty years prior to the new, Arizona law.
Prejudice exists well beyond skin color.

A “STOP” sign? 
Right.
To stop illegal immigration, and stop punishing
employees and states that enforce immigration law.

Tobysgirl:  A lot of us are in your same shoes,  hoping we have done enough in the past to deserve to have been given the gift of life on earth.
  That we care, shows in these comments.  That we are trying to do what we can is evident, and hopefully our comments go beyond the freakin’ nuts who preach Endsville and defeatism.
  At the very least, we can encourage those who are younger and physically more able to act. (I am so glad I still have a brain, I an thankful every day.)
Letters, phone calls, that kind of stuff I do all the time, hoping it reaches people who are ready and able to get together.
  I have one single evidence of success:  In the late 50s Women’s Strike for Peace had a demonstration in downtown L.A. in favor of the Test Ban Treaty.  We were casting about for new poster designs and I suggested using the six-sided red street signe, simply saying STOP. The group agreed, and we made lots of them. The idea has been picked up, and since then I have seen them used all over the world, the latest by protesters against the Arizona anti-immigrant law.
This is the first time I have shared this publicly.

ofersince72, “We need to find some way to stop the next war!!!!!!!”

YES, YES, YES. This obscene buildup to a war with Iran just keeps chugging along, and the MSM does their bit to propel it. I would like to do my bit to keep it from happening, but what?!?!?!? I’m just a nobody who’s aging and not very strong any more, and I will not participate in civil disobedience with three other people. A hundred other people, yes, but not three.

Bush, Obama administrations should be behind
bars, not for a few decades,  for life.

Mr. Manning should be released immediatly for exposing
war crimes

“Please do not hail Bradley Manning (or who ever
released the classified material) as that would
demonstrate raw emotion rather than intellectual
reasoning.”

Intellectual reasoning works better with the brain
turned to the “ON” position, which yours is not.

This is depressing,  todays headlines in McClatchy
papers
 
  Obama to Increase Weapons Exports…................

I didn’t vote for him,  but I never imagined he would
be the president he is.  But this certainly goes a long
way to show that he really isn’t the one making any
final decisions.
  We need to find some way to stop the next war!!!!!!!
However, I don’t see way through this

Agreed.
When “the truth shall set you free”, and U.S. NAZI
administrations since GHWBSr have hidden the truth
under the guise of “national security”, the NAZI
gyrations of GHWBJR turned security over to the MOSSAD, 
the administration of the Kenyan, H.B.Obama, has thrice
intensified the NAZI Bush gyrations, classifies
American patriots as “homeland terrorists” to be
assassinated, and punishes employees for
publicizing the truth - - .

It is time to act, before the WWII NAZI-type roundups
for the FEMA camps is formally initiated.

May WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diary be a bestseller and provide the straw which broke the camels back.

Which part of this travesty from a false flag 9/11 and a canned Patriot act to falsified wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will it take for the general public to sit up and take notice that they have lost control of their ‘democratic’ government.

I din’t know how you’d stay clean when you work in the MSM sewer and dive with regular basis into the American political septic tank. Goodman is such a unique voice in these dark times, we all fear that she might br compromised. But hell, we’re all compromised.

    The sad thing is, we’ll bitch and complain but take no real action. Remember the 60’s?? Fact is a lot of those who organized and protested died, are still behind bars, or had their lives destroyed by political operatives. Who’ll bell that vicious puddy tat? They’re about to allow Monsanto to make home gardens illegal and seize the national water supply, and most won’t even VOTE.

      It’s on us. No avoiding that. American lives are soaked to the bone in fear and apprehension. What holds us in thrall? Turn the rage loose—do it now!!

The phony boloney self proclaimed leaders of the
black community, Mr. J. Jackson Sr. (son too) ,
Rev Big Al Sharpton (him and buddy Newt going around
privitizing schools),  Mr. brother, brother I feel your
pain millionair Cornell West over at Prinston University
and of we forget Mr. Georgetown, funny many Eric Dyson

Won’t tell the black community how powerful their vote is
and that the Democrat Party can’t win not even one state
without the black vote…..they don’t tell them, they’re
to cozy wrapped up with the big chops of the party.

  If the black community really knew how powerful their
vote was and how much the Democrat Party needed it,
I will garantee you this,  institutional racism would
cease and desist quickly.
  And that is just why the Democrat Party went after
ACORN with, of course, collusional help from their buddies
in the Republican Party….
And Amy Goodman ,  you also know this well, so please
stay the hell away from Las Vegas and CNN if you care
to keep you credibility !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When will the intellectual critics begin to apply the
nit-picking, so thoroughly applied to “Mrs. Sarah”, to
the $3 bill personage, Ms. Hillary Clinton ???

I assume the daughter still knows neither who her real
father was, nor who had him assassinated, nor why - ?

The CIA operations in Africa during the

1970s is history that every American should investigate

and find out every little detail they can….

Then you will understand the hunger and thirst that is
happening today in Africa…...........................

One more thing…

Those Pentagon Papers that Daniel Ellsberg so couragously
exposed…..

wasn’t it 1971????????????

They didn’t stop anything either , did they??????????

Even though there was little prosecution over the
Iran-Contra investigaion by the Special Prosecutor,
very much embarassing and secret information was released
on to the public about the Reagon and BushI administrations.

  Years later,  Clinton would be investigated by a
special prosecutor, and there too, little prosecution.
In this case, there wasn’t much to prosecute so they
went after the sex lie.
  And , even though Clinton came out unscathed by the
Whitwater investigation , there was other embarassing
events and operations that the Clintons were sorry got
exposed.
  So since both the DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS were
almost taken out by a Special Proscutor,  they made a
deal,  lets get rid of the special prosecutor option.
And they did,  there is no more Special Prosecutor,
and damn,  we sure could use one now and back in BushII
couldn’t we?  They covered their ass, both the Democrats
and the Republicans in another collusion deal concerning
Special Prosecutors…..............................
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK…..............................

The safe haven , and where the CONTRA operated out
of was HONDURAS.  They were safe there, for at the time
they hadn’t had any little revolution and under
a U.S. sponsered dictator.

  Do you see the present connection and why the U.S.
had to get rid of the democraticly elected president
about a year or so ago?/??

  And just why Hilary Clinton has lied so much about
Honduras, just as she lies about every other foreign
affair????????????????????????????????????????????????

It was 1987 when John Stockwell’s tapes
The Secret Wars of the CIA came out,  I was able
to get the cassettes, still have them.  I believe that
he must have recorded them in 1986, for the Iran-Contra
scam hadn’t been exposed when he made the tapes.
The tapes were very revealing about the U.S. policy in
Africa in the 1970s,  but Stockwell’s Central America
peace activism was not involved with his service in the
CIA, he had resigned.  The U.S policy in Viet Nam and
Africa that Stockwell exposed is sad and pathetic. If I
remember , Stockwell was one of the last out of Viet Nam
when Saigon was over run by Vietnamese (sounds funny).
He didn’t take much of the vacation that was offered him,
he was a young go getter on the move and making quick
advancement in the CIA.  He was given a task in Africa
to oversea, with such level that he often sat in on
National Security Advisory at the White House.  He very
well may have been a part National Security Counsil.
  The Iran-Contra thingy was really bigger than this
Wikileaks deal, for they had the goods on everyone, enough
if prosecuted, treason.  Of course deals were made.
The man that ran the Special Prosecutor, Walsh, did an
outstanding job. He always was frustrated at the
compromises demanded of him to get testimony and parts
that he had to conceal from public knowledge.  In the end
and I believe Walsh admitted this himself,  for all the
good it did and for all the immunities handed out, they
might not as well not had a hearing or SPEC Pros.
  For a little while in the eighties, due to public
pressure,  congress stopped funding for the “CONTRAS”
and for good reason,,,they were cold blooded murderers
that would enter Nicarauga and slay farmers children
right in front of them, rape the wife next in front of
him, then torture and kill him…When congress couldn’t
hide these stories anymore, they stopped funding.
  Just because the funding was stopped Oliver North and
his band didn’t stop funding the CONTRAS, and he began
funding the CONTRAS illegally and that is where the
IRAN-CONTRA funding came in….
  That meant North had to sneak planes in and out of
the U.S.  without congress finding out.  A national guard
base in Arkansas was one of the take off and landing
areas,  guess who the governor of Arkansas was at the
time that was turning his head to this operation?
You got it, and his wife, who is guess what now?
Do you really believe something is going to come of
these WIKI DIKI LEAKS ?????????????????????????????????

Addiction to power&control; has not altered over the
years.

When the NAZIs lost in Europe, they transferred
their HQ to D.C. and other locations. Their “Point
Men”, Allen Dulles and the Georg H. Scherf (Bush?)
family, did a good job of initiating the ruination
of the USA.  Especially after uniting with the
Zionists.  Once the NAZIs and MOSSAD formed Homeland
Security under MOSSAD control, the U.S. Constitution
was swiftly nullified.

It was not Americans who ruined the USA and the
western world.  It was the NAZIs and Zionists; who
misused the trust that had been developed in
Americans.  Just as they misused the trust of the
folk of Bavaria, then all of Germany, 1930-1946. 
Their repetition in the U.S.ofA is increasingly
obvious. 

The evil persons among U.S.A. leadership over the
past seventy years have represented neither
“Crackers nor Niggers”, but rather the “Rothschild”
types, who had Jesus of Nazareth crucified.

It is not the trusting Americans who deserve to be
damned, as per Rev. Wright, but rather NAZI/MOSSAD
types.  Historical chronology is replete with their
genocides. Rothschild types, whom Jesus of Nazareth
ran out of the temple, also fit the group to be
“damned”. 

Honor to patriotic Americans of the “Jewish faith”,
Mrs. Mae Brussell and Mr. Sherman Skolnick, who
presented us with clarifying facts, over 25 years ago.

Who started the war Tarlipps? Was it Assange? Who armed and funded the Muhajeddin to the tune of almost $20 billion so they could fight a proxy war for the United States? Was it Assange? You need to read what you write and understand that when you talk about piling bodies up at Assange’s feet you are condemning him as being responsible for those deaths, when he is not, the Pentagon and the CIA are responsible for all of it and they should be blamed for all of it, not someone who is telling the truth about the war.

‘John Cooley, a former journalist with the US ABC television network and author of Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, has revealed that Muslims recruited in the US for the mujaheddin were sent to Camp Peary, the CIA’s spy training camp in Virginia, where young Afghans, Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, and even some African-American “black Muslims” were taught “sabotage skills”.’ (Norm Dixon, Green left Weekly, 19th September 2001).

And how close was the relationship between the CIA and bin Laden and the Islamic radicals who fought the Russians? Well, very. And the people they supported were not nice people.

‘Washington’s favoured Mujaheddin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The West’s distaste for terrorism did not apply to this unsavoury “freedom fighter”. Hekmatyar was notorious in the 1970s for throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil.

After the Mujaheddin took Kabul in 1992, Hekmatyar’s forces rained US-supplied missiles and rockets on that city — killing at least 2000 civilians — until the new government agreed to give him the post of prime minister. Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.
Hekmatyar was also infamous for his side trade in the cultivation and trafficking in opium. Backing of the Mujaheddin from the CIA coincided with a boom in the drug business. Within two years, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was the world’s single largest source of heroin, supplying 60% of US drug users.’ (Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly, 19th September 2001).

You still want to blame these predicted deaths on a man who runs a website or on the real criminals behind this disaster? You know who they are and so do they.

diamond

Where in my post does it say anything other than who’s responsible for the deaths that will come from the release of these documents. You need to learn how to comprehend what you read and stop projecting what isn’t there.

Don’t want to give the wrong immpression Tobygirl,

I love Amy Goodman and what she does,

just want to keep her away from CNN, or any network
that would let someone like Lou Dobbs rant on for as
long as they did.
It’s not healthy, and rubs off on you….........

and any media event held in Las Vegas…......
a place i plan on never seeing in my life hopefully.

Explain to me Tarlipps why it’s wrong to tell the truth and patriotic to tell a lie. That’s not what it says in the 10 commandments and it’s not what it says in the law books either. You vilify Assange and defend the actions of the Pentagon and the CIA. You blame the man who tells the truth and defend those who lie. You’ve been brainwashed and your moral compass is broken.

2004-2009…................Hello ? They can stack the bodies of the Afghans who helped the coalition at the feet of Mr Assange after the Taliban kill them because their names weren’t removed from the documents.

It’s encouraging to know that in spite of huge efforts to suppress information and dictate point of view, there are people of integrity who will pesist in releasing shrouded facts and truths that people need to understand accurately what is going on.

Thanks to WikiLeaks and other persistent journalists who are not corrupted by corporate money.

I haven’t been listening to Democracy Now! recently, but did in 2008. Did Amy Goodman support Barack Obama? I didn’t get that impression, but may have missed something.

Don’t wait for any trials. So many people think that Nuremberg actually meted out punishment to large numbers of people. The truth is that most of the people involved in slave labor, death camps, etc, went scot-free. And they were the supposedly defeated. The U.S. has never been held accountable for what we did in Vietnam; why does anyone think anything different is going to happen now?

JD,  I have been financally supporting Amy and
Democracy Now for a long time.

  I thought that the Las Vegas retreat was a media event
and Amy’s showing on CNN emphasized that to me.

  I like very much what Democracy Now does, and want
her to stick with that, not be a soundbite on CNN.

  I am not the only one raising concerns about this and
Amy knows this well.

That said, Until television is gone, which will never
happen, we’re screwed.  Speaking of which , are you
familiar with Link TV?  When I did view the tube , I
enjoyed Link TV and contributed to them.
They also carry Democracy Now, and Mosaic, News from the
Middle East,  the Mosaic news cast was alright but I saw
it getting somewhat controlled, it does however give a
good perspective from those nations.
That station has great cultural shows,  good documentaries
and is viewer paid for, nothing from the govt
completly public funded,  if you do watch the tube ,
Link TV is certainly , to me, the best channel .
Unfortunatly cable doesn’t carry Link, but DirectTV and
Dish Network both do.

“More than one Christian friend has suggested to me, in all seriousness, that President Obama is the Antichrist. I haven’t taken such suggestions too seriously, but recently a ...”

“…and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Harry Reid, and Hell followed with him.”

Ofersince72

Damn! You have gone over the edge! Soon you’ll be attacking Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King.

I’ve heard people claim that Jesus Christ would be a Democrat. Are you going after him next?

“Socialism is Christianity action,” Eugene Debbs

Just kidding; get a grip!

(Yeah, we know, there’s not much similarity between the current crop of Democrats and Jesus Christ. Don’t bother.)

I’ve been a regular listener of DemNow since day 1.
When I first saw the story on the Guardian on Sunday evening, I’d thought it was what we’d been hearing about on DemNow already, such as the attack of civilians including 2 Reuters reporters that WikiLeaks had done several months earlier.  Then the enormity of it sank in.  The sheer volume of it.  A coalition of groups, countries involved…A good use of new tech.  Somewheres the echo of Howard Zinn’s words are going “YAY”.........(I’m old enough to remember the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War…)
Good interview with Julian Assange today on
Dem.Now and good one yesterday with “Emanuel Goldstein”, hacker.  http://www.democracynow.org

ofersince72:

You make a very good point about Amy Goodman.
A great deal of good work in Democracy Now! but it’s hard to accept the fact that
she may have believed in another war president and contributed to his election.

But the greatness of US, god blessing it, infallible constitution, mastery of a minority of the majority still remain.

Some petty war crime acts by individuals had always been exposed and some perps mildly punished by the great nation.

The greatest by far perp, US [read congress, media generals, judiciary, bankers] only suffer mild headaches because of such revelations.

That media is dwelling on these petty acts, tells us it’s on its usual mission: damage control to the great nation! tnx

Once again, three cheers for Ms. Amy Goodman !!! 

If there are more men with her motivation for honesty and accuracy, she would not be so clearly outstanding - ?

For those who “attempt” to criticize her: -  go back to your money-changer tables in the temple.

PSmith,  Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield are figures of
the past now.  We booted them out,  yet , one could
hardly tell they were gone.  Why do you believe this to be

Is anyone as disappointed as I am to see Amy Goodman on
CNN doing little meaningless soundbites?

Or as disappointed as I was to see her attend that
stupid Las Vegas media gathering?
I am close to pulling my plug of support for Democracy
Now, she is getting way awful to close to Democrats for
my liking.
She does good with Democracy Now,  I believe she just
needs to keep reporting factual news and stay the hell
out of the Dem/Pub political scene.
But thats just me…....However,  with the contacts
Amy Goodman has, she should well know the futility of
paying any attention to either party and be trying to
help us find a leader out of this wilderness.
AMY GOODMAN,  ARE YOU…GOING…TO…SUPPORT..DEMOCRATS..
AGAIN..:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:??:??:?:?:??:?:?::

It would appear at this late date in history that one of the ways to distract people from paying attention to the important political issues is to pay attention to the shenaningins of individual citizens.
(The “belt buckle issue” currently running on Td is an example of this.  For instance, rather than to devote space to a brief review of Nader’s clumsy recent (boring but important)  book on how The Rich Could Save Us, (as just one example) it is easier and more amusing to detail the jewels in a belt-buckle of a rich-and-famous “personality.”)
  Ho-hum Department:  Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Everybodies gonna blab because its all unjust b.s.
Its the cool thing to do.
one of these days topgun will decide to become a holy warrior and pop tel aviv or
air force one…....
You can win battles but not the war when the morals are f….....d up.
Claustwitz said that in a few more words..

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 19.
•Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

If what Assange and Wikileaks are doing is against the law (and it isn’t or Daniel Ellsberg would have got life) then it shouldn’t be. Not if we want the human race to survive this century without being wiped out by nuclear or biological warfare brought to you by the people who say Assange is a threat to people’s lives. Only liars fear the truth.

Break open a beer, sit yourself down, and take a long, satisfying drink after a tough, tough day of ... reading documents leaked by anonymous sources, which obviously makes them valid and reliable because the organization that acquired and distributed them has a cool Internet term in its name.

Wow, journalism is taking on a whole new edge. Finally! Imagine reading SOME of the ACTUAL documents written by experts in the field, in part and out of context, enabling pundits around the globe to spout their certainty for hours and hours on end of what MUST be done, and lending authority to their mindless, half-informed speculation by allowing them to quote random, anonymous documents without context or background.

Why, we could confuse and distort global warming research well past Armageddon!

Nice work if you can get it. And when Pakistan blows the world to hell because we made policy based on a mob mentality interpretation of SOME old documents, how many of you will turn yourselves in to the World Court to be tried as war criminals accountable for the poor judgment you made?

Who elected you to screw up?

Honestly, though, I’m all for this “new journalism”. But, people, why not go whole hog. Don’t stop at just this namby pamby nipping at the sitting duck government. Let’s leak some really good and useful stuff. Let’s see some of Fox News’ internal secrets. Let’s leak the Maddow marketing strategy, or the TruthDig financial statements. Let’s leak some of those John Stewart jokes that bomb so we can authoritatively infer he’s a secret sexist. We have a right! Let’s leak what YOU do there in the dark on Thursday night.

What are ya hiding?

This is a country with laws supporting freedom of spech.
  This is also a country whose government has made, and continues to support, laws which deny freedom of speech and support suppression, disguise and censorship of information (ie: threatening and arrest of political protesters, denial of rdical opposition and disguise of corporate control of factual, diverse political information, possibilities, decisions etc.)
  This is a country where millions of citizens use the Internet, which makes disguise and denial almost impossible by its very nature—speed and openness.
  Undoubtedly this speed and openess will soon be attacked by the politicalsocial/economic forces that want to get rid of true freedom of speech and promote only the support their point of view.
  Those who realize the importance of freedom of speech and the conflict between that and politico-economic controls had better pay more attention immediately to the struggle for increased domination of media, including primarily the internet.
  There is some possibility that this issue might not be a strictly left/right confrontation, but instead, common ground might be found.  Is there any work at all being done to try to unite efforts around this vital issue?

Assange is a hero. 

He has allowed consumers a peek under the veil of what we call news.

The meme “could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security.” is ridiculous given our Army is in their backyard.

Lets hope these so called secrets galvanize public opinion, gather momentum and resolve to finally cut the defense budget, close bases and get out troops home.