The Distress Signal
Rants from a corporate IT drone, wannabe web designer/developer, and sometime blogger.
Because the future is NEVER now.
Droppin' knowledge bombs since 1973.
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wikileaksPakistan?
I wonder if the American government will ever be able to summon the courage to face the cablegate leaks with the same type of aplomb shown by nations that truly embrace free speech.
Nations like ..wait. What? Oh come on, really? Pakistan? You’ve got to be kidding me.
From Pakistan’s Lahore High Court ruling on whether or not to ban the Wikileaks site:
We must bear the truth, no matter how harmful it is.
When a country like Pakistan holds the moral high ground on America, you have to ask yourself: Just how far from our ideals have we strayed?
Executed as Spies
WikiLeaks has been taking a bit of a pounding from the right since it began the release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables last week. Sarah Palin called for the organization’s founder Julian Assange to be treated as a terrorist and described him as an “anti-American operative with blood on his hands”. Mike Huckabee, and others in the right wing press, went further and suggested that those involved in the leak should be executed as spies.
From Red State:
..my preferred course of action would for Assange to find a small caliber round in the back of his head.
Meanwhile, Senator Liberman and members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee managed to bully Amazon into dropping WikiLeaks from it’s EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) service. The site had earlier moved to EC2 following several DDOS attacks on it’s servers in Sweden.
While the right indulges in its usual vim and verve about how far they’re willing to go to “protect” the American Way, far enough to trample all over it, I thought it might be helpful to keep in mind a few points about what WikiLeaks has really been trying to accomplish:
