Julian Assange arrested (merged)

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Getting rid of Assange accomplishes nothing, someone else is going to continue but this time by keeping out of public. There's very little one can do about Wikileaks.

I agree that getting rid of him in an "accident" or disappearance would probably accomplish nothing.

Getting rid of him in some very public and horrible manor - as was the case in Alexander Litvinenko, sends a much more understandable message to any successors that may survive him.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

Getting rid of him in some very public and horrible manor - as was the case in Alexander Litvinenko, sends a much more understandable message to any successors that may survive him.

And would be great PR to the US

[Catfish]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...aks/index.html

Just read it

[Skybird]

It is a "scandal" when the Government conceals things it is doing without any legitimate basis for that secrecy. Each and every document that is revealed by WikiLeaks which has been improperly classified -- whether because it's innocuous or because it is designed to hide wrongdoing -- is itself an improper act, a serious abuse of government secrecy powers. Because we're supposed to have an open government -- a democracy -- everything the Government does is presumptively public, and can be legitimately concealed only with compelling justifications. That's not just some lofty, abstract theory; it's central to having anything resembling "consent of the governed."

But we have completely abandoned that principle; we've reversed it. Now, everything the Government does is presumptively secret; only the most ceremonial and empty gestures are made public. That abuse of secrecy powers is vast, deliberate, pervasive, dangerous and destructive. That's the abuse that WikiLeaks is devoted to destroying, and which its harshest critics -- whether intended or not -- are helping to preserve. There are people who eagerly want that secrecy regime to continue

Good find, Catfish, in consistency with the editorial from the Swiss Die Wochenschau that I linked and translated yesterday.