They caught him! Julian Assange handed himself in the other day to British authorities where he will be extradited to Swizterland for several related charges of sexual assualt. There is a good possibility he may then be extradited to the U.S. for disclosing of classified documents.
Now I've said this to several people already with the same excitement I have above written, and the response I seem to get is that they are bummed by it. They view this as the capture of a nobel Robin Hood figure. Really?
The guy's a little shit. All the stuff he revealed were legitimate government secrets and in doing so all he did was complicate diplomatic practices. It's not like he released the Pentagon Papers. For everything I've read and heard, he basically just released a bunch of gossipy crap that countries were saying behind each others back. I'm not saying this on the basis of some ultra-conservative source like a Fox News or Glenn Beck. I'm saying this based on reports from New Yorker magazine and NPR. He essentially released the People Magazine of world politics.
The problem with this is we need to do things behind other countries backs and say things to one and say something else to another. That's how politics works. Don't be naive! All of do the same thing in our regular lives. You say crap on people in your community all the time behind closed doors that you make a smiling face to when out and about. WikiLeaks is not a whole lot different than the little kid who doesn't know when to shut up and just babbles out all of the gossip he picks up from his parents.
Worst of all many of these reports were released without any concern for the security of foreign operations. Those reports disclosed the names of foreign informants who are now in serious danger for their lives. Assange is not a vigilanty for the truth protecting us from the secracy of the government. He is a reckless gossip publisher.
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