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10.21.10 - 11:19 PM
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With Wikileaks reportedly set to release the largest cache ever of secret documents, this time from Iraq, the Army is scrambling to play catch-up. They have over 100 analysts ready, they recently updated their rulebook on SAEDA - Subversion and Espionage Directed Against the Army - to include leaks of classified information, and a lame Bosnia-era training cartoon, unearthed by Gawker and clearly no match for Assange, could be used to re-enforce their message about "the Army's stuff - you got it, they want it."
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Show Allsaeda - not to be confused with qaeda.........
"they want to get their hands on your "stuff""
sounds like homophobia
three cheers for wiki leaks. they are doing what dan ellsburg did 40 years ago to stop the madness of this warmongering country of ours. too bad the leading dims and repugs don't get that. of course they won't because they are the big part of the problem.
matt
harris county green party
Dan Ellsburg was on Democracy Now today. See it, if you can.
We, all of us, need to figure out ways of protecting and supporting WikiLeaks.
How about a National "Free Bradley Manning Day" with parades, vigils, protests, legal defense fund, etc.
Rosemarie Jackowski - Candidate for VT Attorney General
i heard it and it was good. i agree we should have a free bradley manning day and explain that he is not a traitor or criminal but our country's war mongering is criminal.
are you a green party candidate? i am originally from Long Island and i like Vermont alot. i miss being up there this time of year.
matt
galveston tx
The Army has over 100 propagandists ready because this could jeopardize their lies and their security. This subversion and espionage by Wikileaks, if it exposes the pack of lies and threatens the Army's security, has to be stopped before it is too late. Maybe the Patriot Act and SAEDA could be used to preemptively, incarcerate all the people that read about these leaks as potential, subversive traitors. Hmmmm.
How many hundreds of thousands or even millions of human beings, innocent civilians and troops have been killed due to the lies of the powerful American leaders? Wikileak asked the Pentagon to check the names of those they want to redact in the documents to protect their identity. Pentagon officials did not care about the all who died due to the lies about Iraq. Nor did they care about Valerie P. or Cheney's (Skippy Libby) crime of revenge. Now the pentagon wants us to believe they are concerned about innocent lives being endangered by Wikileaks?
Oh, I read that wrong, I thought it said SEDNA..( you know , the most recent planet discovery....named after an Inuit sea goddess) so in that sense, "They want to get their hands on your stuff" certainly explains all the rapes and ill treatment of military women.
Oh, well, it's not SEDNA..o.k. what is with that freaky cartoon man with the throat cancer voice?
Then too, that "traitor" graphic is rather suspect. Notice that the hand stabs Lady Liberty in the back... and the RIGHT hand is holding the "Flaming" torch, ( see, military, Lady Liberty thinks you should dump " Don't ask ...etc. too) but the LEFT hand is holding the book, which must be the Constitution of our country!
Ah, ha, the message then becomes.....if you let the freaking military stab freedom of information and liberty in the back, then our Constitution gets dumped in the ocean, or OMG, even waterboarded.
Go away silly military people, and again, if you don't want "bad " history to arise, then don't make any "bad" history.
Although, on the positive side, Wikileaks is forcing the military to go over its own records and maybe, just maybe, they will find a through line of action, which will make them go, "Oh, crap , we don't know what the F we're doing, do we."
Gentleman, let's review!
Is anyone else noting the legal emptiness of the Army's tantrum? Julian Assange isn't a US citizen. They can call him lots of things, but 'traitor' isn't one of them.
As for SAEDA applying to war crimes, that's another matter. Oddly, the training video doesn't say...
War is hell...and causes atrocities...SAEDA won't change this fact.
The invasion of Iraq will always be part of the shameful legacy of Bush II...now Iraq is the shameful legacy of the U.S. Military which we're learning more about thanks to WikiLeaks.
It's not surprising the U.S. Mil ignored Iraqi torture and war crimes, elements of the U.S. Mil (special forces and intelligence officers) themselves committed war crimes and torture with the illegal approval of Bush, Rumsfeld, Gen. Sanchez, and Gen. Miller.
There must be an outside investigation into the U.S. Mil's atrocities and enabling of Iraqi atrocities.
If you are torturing and committing war crimes, you can't call others' on their torture and war crimes.
The truth will set us free!
"Mason C October 23rd, 2010 2:30 am
Is anyone else noting the legal emptiness of the Army's tantrum? Julian Assange isn't a US citizen. They can call him lots of things, but 'traitor' isn't one of them."
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That's right. I'm noting... .. Assange can not(rationally) be called 'an american' traitor.. 'because' he's not an american, he's an Australian.
But how many Americans are going to faint with delight at the pic of Assange knifing his 'own' country, in the back!?
If they are TOLD it is not possible for Assange to be an 'american' traitor.. they will say : 'Well, he's a traitor to America' and continue : 'Same thing'
~sc
"Chuck October 23rd, 2010 1:02 pm
The truth will set us free!"
The 'truth' will not set you free. ! The 'truth' (the 'fact') is : you are chained and when you hear the 'truth' it will inform you that, all you are free to do is to (silently) curse your chains.
~sc