WikiLeaks: We were for free speech, before we were against it

-Jennifer of Cubachi

If you need any further proof that WikiLeaks is not all about free speech and engages in cyber warfare, just look at what happened to Sarah Palin as Jake Tapper exclusively reported. 

Palin, one of the powerful voices against WikiLeaks, had her SarahPAC organization and her credit card information hacked into.

They play the politics of fear, threaten people, and threaten our military.

Comments

[Susie Q]

Funny how the weazel was glorifying the First Amendment (although he doesn't live in the US), but his little buddies have no problem trying to shut it down when it offends his sensibilities.

Poor little Ass hange. I hope the ass is looking over his shoulder all day and night. He needs to remember it is not only the US he has pissed off, and others may deal with him much more harshly than we would.

[barfo]

Yes, how dare WikiLeaks expose the fact that U.S. contractors are running child prostitution rings in Afghanistan using U.S. taxpayer money!

"Many of DynCorp's employees are ex-Green Berets and veterans of other elite units, and the company was commissioned by the US government to provide training for the Afghani police. According to most reports, over 95 percent of its $2 billion annual revenue comes from US taxpayers.

And in Kunduz province, according to the leaked cable, that money was flowing to drug dealers and pimps. Pimps of children, to be more precise. (The exact type of drug was never specified.)"

Can't they see how exposing government funded pedophilia hurts Saint Sarah?

[salvage]

Yeah, it's actually not Wikileaks doing the hacking but another group who doesn't like how Wikileaks are being treated.

Facts! Wingnuts, you need to work with them.

I know, I know, they're all connected through Soros or Lord Xenu... not wait that Scientology, sorry it's easy to confuse them with wingnuts.

You still haven't show how the leaks have threatened the military, that's one of those facts things you need to understand so see that you're wrong.

[Drago]

salvage: "You still haven't show how the leaks have threatened the military, that's one of those facts things you need to understand so see that you're wrong."

From the UK Independent, 7Dec2010:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/wikileaks-releases-list-of-sites-vital-to-us-national-security-2153030.html

Excerpt: "While many of the diplomatic documents previously published by the whistle-blowing website were merely embarrassing or inconvenient to the US, the State Department list – designed "to strengthen national preparedness, timely response and rapid recovery in the event of an attack, natural disaster or other emergency" – contains the sort of information considered vital to militant groups. It includes a cobalt mine in Kinshasa, an insulin plant in Denmark, an anti-snake venom factory in Australia, a Canadian hydro-electric plant which acts as "a critical irreplaceable source of power to portions of North-east US", and a Siemens factory in Germany which is "essentially irreplaceable" for the "production of key chemicals".

Given that the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror", the document is among the most explosive published by WikiLeaks so far, according to security experts, who say it gives terrorists what amounts to a shopping-list of key targets. John J LeBeau, a former CIA officer who teaches security studies at the George C Marshall Centre in Germany, said it "might put ideas into jihadist heads as to what to profitably target"."

Now salvage, I realize that in addition to being an expert hunter, you are also a Global Security expert as well.

I congratulate you (sarc/off).

Like you would get within a hundred miles of a military or security services recruiting station!! LOL

I'm sure your vast reservoir of "knowledge" comes in handy in your extraordinarily dangerous stand-up career!!

LOL

[Drago]

I know, I know, salvage. Those experts are all probably connected through Cheney or halliburton or the BFEE or Lord Xenu... not wait! Scientology! Sorry it's easy to confuse them with libtards.

Facts! Sanctimonious libtards, you need to work with them!

Good luck!

[Drago]

barfo: "Yes, how dare WikiLeaks expose the fact that U.S. contractors are running child prostitution rings in Afghanistan using U.S. taxpayer money!"

Wow.

How dare obambi and sheriff Joey B and Hillary allow this!!!!

They are War Criminals!

[Marie]

I could be wrong but hacking Sarah Palin and her husbands credit cards might actually be a crime that the US Government could nail Wiki for. The Feds won't have an espionage charge because Wiki didn't actually steal the documents. They just posted them online. Hacking credit cards might be enough of a crime to get an extradition.

[salvage]

You are wrong Marie but you are proving my point about wingnuts and how the ignore facts to support their delusion. If you read beyond the headlines and first graph you would see "Jake Tapper reported exclusively on his blog Political Punch that Sarah Palin and her husband’s credit cards and her organization SarahPAC were hacked by supporters of WikiLeaks."

See? Supporters, not WikiLeaks but rather a group of hackers who do this sort of thing for fun. They tell the world and possibly themselves that they do it for justice but that's probably not true. If they weren't doing to Palin for whatever reason they'd be doing it to someone else for another reason. They're jerks who need to be busted so they can be scared into using their nerd skills to make me video games or get my online porn to me faster.

And you're quite right, that sort of thing is illegal and if Assange had done that he would be charged but he didn't.

Why don't you read the actual articles and not just the blog summaries from wingnuts who have trouble divining truth from fiction?

[Drago]

Hilarious!!

Has there ever, evah!, been a more laughably demonstrable case of over-compensation than Salvage with his "facts are liberally biased" schtick.

It's kind of cute, in a sad, perpetually adolescent sort of way.

Yes, yes salvage, you are reality-based-ist of everyone!!!

Good for you.

[Robert]

I'm disturbed by the wikileaks but I'm also disturbed by the contents of the cable that says my tax dollars paid for child sex slaves for anal rape parties.

Why is the outrage over this Dyncorp situation muted from who I thought were people I agreed with? Stacy MccCain posted about it but not much else. Where is the outrage guys? This is beyond horrible.

From what little info I have found, it appears that Dyncorp, the State Department and the Washington Post worked together to hide this atrocity.

Edmund Burke's quote applies here: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

[salvage]

>I'm disturbed by the wikileaks but I'm also disturbed by the contents of the cable that says my tax dollars paid for child sex slaves for anal rape parties.

That's the first I've heard of that and wow:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php

If true that's beyond vile.

[International Shirts]

Now where do we really stand? I am always for what is appropriate and reasonable. It usually depends on the situation. Stealing is not justifiable in any way.

[salvage]

What was stolen?