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Jeez...you really are a dim bulb. The NRA is not a random group. About what we expect from you.
What does that matter? Even if President Obama "considered" Bernie anti-gun, that still wouldn't make it a fact. Facts require actual evidence. Your catalogue of memes is, regrettably, insufficient.
So. Shall we release Trump's tax returns then? Huh!? Is that happening? No. Because Donald Trump deems it 'unnecessary'. But at the same time, we ask for Hillary's head regarding her email server. There are simply two standards here these days. And one has to seriously ask why one party gets all the blame, when actually both parties are wishy-washy. Reason for that: "Establishment" are all criminals, "Outsiders" are all saviors. It's a dangerous assumption.
You know, freedom for me is a bit more than releasing 'stuff'. Julian Assange even releases credit card information from DNC-staffers. Bank details! That's unheard off. It goes beyond freedom for me and it blatantly borders crime. There were days when journalists interpreted that stuff for as as being gatekeepers of democracy. Just watch "All The President's Men", or even the latest film "Spotlight". Now in those days, journalists placed these findings, which I call research journalism, into perspective and context. And then people were forced to form an opinion about it. But nowadays, we also ask for the heads of the "Liberal Media", a bullying bumpersticker for all journalists in today's geopolitical environment.
But now? Assange just releases dirt as if he's some kind of heroe or savior. For me Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are heroes and saviors! Julian Assange not so much! And make no mistake, I frequently criticised today's social media environment. It's one of the reasons we keep clashing constantly @BondJames. But there are days when I'm longing for the old democratic institutions functioning normal again, the 'gatekeepers of freedom', journalists, included. There were days were there was more social cohesion in which freedom almost automatically made an appeal to pragmatism and rationalism, in which facts were placed into context and not as a means of ideological fights.
That society is long gone. But I damn Julian Assange for facilitating that decline much faster. The fine line between freedom and crime seems to be gone. And I do think computerhacking is a part of it. Computerhacking IS A CRIME! Don't 'Robin Hood' Julian Assange all the time. It's damaging, destructive and it creates more and more problems. And James Bond knew this, as he fought Raoul Silva with so much gusto.
In any case........you frighten me @BondJames.
Well, @bondjames, that's not exactly a revelation, is it? Wikileaks and Snowden didn't do anything other than expose what we already guessed. As for disclosure: I have to disagree. There are many things that the general public just shouldn't know about. Period. Not because it's deceitful information, but because the public's right to know often leads to public harm. Sometimes, letting the enemy know what you know puts you in a weakened position. (But maybe we're talking about two different things.)
In case anyone missed it, the real story yesterday wasn't the DNC leaks, disgraceful though the content of the emails were. It was the hiring of that partisan hack Wasserman Schultz as Clinton's honorary chair of her campaign, despite her unethical behaviour.
Our 'journalists' seem to have lost that story during their discussion of Russia, Putin and Manafort.
I fully agree.
Post-911 I believe the opposite has been the case, especially during Bush Jr's time, and the effects were catastrophic for the country. I expected an improvement under Obama, but I don't feel that it has trended in that direction. Rather, it's been more of the same but with a different tenor.
In an era of Citizen's United, intense lobbying of politicians, corporate consolidation / sponsorship, increased media concentration and patronage, I believe disrupters like Wikileaks and Snowden are essential to balance the information flow to citizens.
Of course, matters of national security shouldn't be included in such releases, but if I had to make a choice between release of sensitive information and clamping down on all information which could benefit the public interest (especially when they are being misinformed), then I would definitely lean towards more disclosure rather than less.
It is the whistleblowers who are in peril.
Every western government is ok with this, it seems.
I am not sure what, exactly, the Clinton team is thinking here. I will say this: as much I am fine with Hillary as a potential President, she sure is aloof. I don't think she is dumb; I don't think she is corrupt; I just think she doesn't "get it" sometimes.
This might be true. There are many different aspects of the Wikileaks case. I guess I've grown cold and cynical about personal privacy, as opposed to government privacy. We are all so worried about government peeking into our personal lives, but it's not government we should fear. Ask all the celebs whose iTunes Cloud got hacked. (BTW: the effin' cloud is what is ruining us. I hate the damn cloud.)
OK, then I agree. Sorry.
I said "iTunes" cloud and meant Apple. Yes. LOL
I am with you on this, @Beatles. And people need to lay off the overblown harsh comments to Gustav or anybody else.
Yes, the kindergarten mentality of 'us, the "good guys", against the "enemies" ' is quite common in the US isn't it?
If any whistle blower from China or Russia hadde been reporting similar things, the US had been taking him in with open arms, and he would probably get the Nobel Peace Price. Seems like dobbel standards to many, but in the easy American mentality it works fine. How easy to live in a world where everything your government does is for the greater good, and all in opposition are evil enemies?
Don't worry @4EverBonded. I think at times you need to accept that your opinion in here is the opinion of a minority :-). There's not much you can do.
By the way, I am very harsh too. I know that from myself. And that sometimes -or most of the time- backfires to me, especially in an environment where your principles aren't overwhelmingly supported.
The same thing goes for my opinion about the European Union. We live in times where neo-nationalism and appealing to the 'populi' (populism) are far more popular than internationalism. And I understand that. But that doesn't mean I will blindly appease all my core principles with an understanding of new situations.
I don't think a black or white, up or down, good or bad mentality is specific to America, @jobo. It's human nature. I'll cop to being human, I suspect most of us here will as well (at least if we're being honest with ourselves.) I refer you to Fleming -- Casino Royale, Chapter 20: "The Nature of Evil."
It is better that I don't post here anymore. I'm a very unlikeable asshole. I wouldn't mind if all of you tell me to leave...because I think then my apparent harshness stops.
If not, then at least my presence causes divisiveness and more blindness. I think it's really better if I fuck off (And please moderators, I'm talking to myself ;-) ).
It would be nice if you understand what it means to suffer from Borderline and mild Asperger. When you say 'melodramatic' I feel....actually deeply offended. And perhaps this should read then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder#Emotions . What for you seems melodramatic, is another guy's seriousness, passion and an honest feeling of being belittled.
You say you know you can react in a harsh way. I think this is not true, I think you overreact. Something, again, easily explaineable by your borderline disorder. At the same time, do you want to be treated different for it? Enlarging the 'disabillity'? or would you rather be treated like anyone else?
It's not you agianst the world,
it's you IN this world.
Your demise will be mourned by those you care about,
but it won't be seen or felt like punishment.
I understand you feel desperate at times, but there's only one way to handle that and that is to remember that it's a passing feeling. You just sit it out and will feel better later on.