Baldy

I'm guessing it's not "if" but "when". I know there are many, many people responsible for wikileaks, and one will take his place when he's gone, but currently he's the only one brazen enough to take credit for their leaks. For it or against it, you gotta admit, that guy's time is limited.

carurex

He won't be touched. There is way too much publicity around this which makes it too obvious.

thatpoorguy

I missed this. What happened?

GreyGT-C

he leaked what was gonna happen on the season finale of Dexter i think...

thatpoorguy

Oic lol not a big deal to me cause I still don't have cable yet

Baldy

He's the face of wikileaks.org, they publish thousands of classified documents (government and otherwise).

phinsup

They Feds are going to try to go after him by declaring him a terrorist. They just arrested him on charges from Sweden that they dropped seeral times because there was no evidence. They have proof the women conspired via text prior to going to the cops.



I figured the greatest speech ever given by a politician was pertinent to the topic at hand so here goes. This is just the meat of the speech, the entire speech is very good if you have the time. It was given by JFK on april 27 1961, he was addressing the press.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnkdf...e_gdata_player

phinsup

Bail denied big shock.

Baldy

The press is usually all "free speech" and "confidential sources", until **** gets real. Now they're all against Assage, which I don't get because it just proves any press can be taken down one way or another.



Like I said in post 1 though, someone else will just take his place, though I'm sure the next guy will be a bit more anonymous.

phinsup

The media has nothing to do with free press and it hasn't for some time. Large corporations own all of the media outlets and across several markets. They will do nothing that puts their own interests at risk. This wikileaks thing should be a wake up call to that fact. Read the documents, then read the major news outlets spin on it. HINT, the actual documents tell a different story than the news, but they know that most americans won't read the documents, so they can pretty much say they say whatever they want. These major corporations that don't push the gov't spew get sanctioned and screwed over by the various tools the feds have to use against them, FCC, patriot act, etc... They will never do anything that puts their own interests in jeopardy. The fact that the last few elections hasn't proved that to the American people just shows how utterly hopeless things really are. I could go on for hours about a multitude of things the "media" has failed to even mention. The media is merely PR firm for the gov't agenda, even when they supposedly call the gov't on something it's never anything of substance, it's something rediculous, every once in a while the gov't throws them a bone so people still buy all the lies they are sellin. This guy fucked an aid, here ya go people feed on this guy for a while. Meanwhile we'll do things all over the world that cause "Blowback" on the american people, then they act as if the blowback was a total surprise, gee why are those people so pissed?



The media plugs stupid **** as big news while the big things breeze right by. It's the age old trick of watching one hand while the other pics your pocket. It's no accident, the media and the gov't have a nice little you scratch our back we'll scratch yours. Why do you think quietly and quickly corporations were allowed to buy both the newspaper, tv and radio in the same market? This was up until recently illegal. Now comcast and NBC are going to merge, have you seen a lot of coverage on that? The coverage you do see tells us how wonderful it will be. Our government has intentionally put the press in the hands of the very masters they serve. Do you honestly think that a candidate that vowed to break up the media monopoly and restore the free press would get a lot of face time? Do you honestly believe a candidate like that would stand a chance of getting elected? Then there is your answer.



Our gov't has been operating in total secrecy and against the american people's best interests for some time. We've turned a blind eye because that's what we do, it's the easy thing to do and it doesn't put us at risk. The big question is will we do anything now that our noses have been rubbed in it or will we just continue on our way, electing more criminals, acting angry and surprised when they commit crimes? Will we continue to turn a blind eye like the romans did as their empire collapsed around them?