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"peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States." – New York Republican Peter King, after Wikileaks.org released a large batch of classified documents (Dallas Morning News).
So who is threatened by the release of state secrets?
Leaking secrets only hurts lying, cheating, sneaking, backstabbing, double-dealing, two-timing hypocrites.
In other words, politicians.
It doesn't hurt all Americans. It hurts only those hubristic war-mongering empire-building global-conquering manipulators who mislabel themselves "leaders."
People who are honest and aboveboard in their dealings with one another – people who have nothing to hide – are not harmed by leaking secrets since they have no secrets to leak.
King wants WikiLeaks designated as a terrorist organization, even though there has never been any evidence that WikiLeaks' purported founder Julian Assange or any of his people have ever flown airplanes into occupied buildings or sent suicide bombers into crowded marketplaces or anything else even remotely suggestive of terrorism.
WikiLeaks is guilty of telling the truth. In the minds of chest-beating politicians addicted to Orwellspeak that makes them terrorists.
It's as though the philandering Tiger Woods had called his sex partners terrorists for speaking out.
In his recent LewRockwell.com article, "If the government does X, it is called Y," Robert Higgs explains how war means peace, slavery means freedom and ignorance means strength in Govspiel. People like Congressman Peter King can now add their own counterfeit spin-speak: truth-telling is terrorism.
So does leaking secrets really endanger the security of the United States?
If America's security rests on lying, cheating, sneaking, backstabbing, double-dealing, two-timing hypocrisy, then yes, it does.
In which case those who attack Wikileaks are actually making a public confession about their own lack of morals.
But if America's security rested on the Jeffersonian-libertarian-common decency foundation of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" the answer would be no.
Wikileaks is guilty of freedom of speech.
It's only the big government-worshipping empire-loving war-mongering population that has any problem with Julian Assange and the people of WikiLeaks.
It's always the guilty who seek to punish the whistle-blowers.
In their twisted ethos, truth-telling is always terrorism.
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I just noticed that 4 of my friends have shared this on their facebook in the last 20 minutes.
Great piece. This has been my position on Wikileaks from the beginning.
The sole purpose of non-voluntary government at any level is to preserve and ever enlarge itself. It is a parasite beyond the comprehension of far too many of us.
That is the greatest threat to the prosperity, health and safety of the people.
Well said, I was a bit concerned with the title.
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