The value of wikileaks

3 Responses to The value of wikileaks

1. Mollbot says:

   February 7, 2011 at 11:06 pm

   Is it really growing though? I think maybe certain elements (MSM comes to mind) are realizing that a lot fewer people buy the “party line” than they once believed… but Americans, at least, have had a long tradition of distrusting government… and doing something about it. The Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion and the American Civil War come to mind. We’ve certainly build a Rube Goldberg contraption of a Government since the Depression but I think there has always been a strong suspicion of government in quite a few Americans. My father was a Democrat… but distrusted government, and a number of politicians personally. Yeah, I wish he’d lived longer, I’d have had some questions for him now.
2. Rivrdog says:

   February 8, 2011 at 1:31 am

   WkiLeaks can only be considered a tool to emphasize the distrust of government in the broadest of terms. If pressed for such an analogy, I would say that an English Broadsword being a tool for cutting flesh, it could be used as a scalpel in surgery. Only in the broadest of terms. The real world intrudes here, and most competent analyses I’ve read about Assange and the whole WikiLeaks program indicates they are nothing more than geek-trained anarchists. A true anarchist, of course, will attack ANY form of government, even the purest of small direct-democracy governments. Another analogy: using WikiLeaks to go after government is like using a nuke to clear a storm drain: yes, the drain will get cleared for a few microseconds, and if the collateral damage is ignored, you can even say that the nuke did the job it was supposed to do.
3. bkgertsch says:

   February 25, 2011 at 4:27 am

   Nice Story, Brian G

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