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In reply to the discussion: Julian Assange bids to sue Julia Gillard for defamation over WikiLeaks comments [View all]go west young man
(4,856 posts)Hard to believe this is DU with most of what I've read in this thread. Back in 2004 this site kicked ass with so many great DU'ers fighting against the mainstream bullshit. Nowadays the site reads like Freeper lite. What the fuck happened I don't know. But it's this DU'ers opinion that these folks choose to rail against the wrong side. There's no doubt in the modern day that the US can't be trusted in these matters. There's no doubt that other countries do the US's bidding. There's no doubt that the US see's Wikileaks as a threat. Assange and Manning haters always want to make the story about them but never about what they exposed. On Bullshit Mountain bullshitters choose to go after the messenger not the perpetrator. It's easier for them to spend their internet energy on that cause I suppose. The larger matter lies at their feet yet they go for the nonsensical whimsical one. Why would a true truthseeker do such a thing? Constantly deride the people that exposed the "whole truth for all of us to see". The people that helped bring about the Arab Spring? The people who exposed the nepotism and dirty back room dealings with dictators and torturers? In my mind Bradley Manning is the best soldier the US military has ever seen. And I write that as a former marine myself (0341-Infantry mortarman, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Mar Div 85-88.) One soldier has helped over turn not one, not two, but three dictatorships. The entire US military has attempted to transform 2 countries and has arguably failed after an entire decade. To me Bradley Manning deserves a fucking medal. He's not mentally unstable as the military continually suggests. He's a human being with a clean conscience unlike many of the people I see posting here. In the long run the US will be a better country because of what Manning and Assange exposed. I believe that in the future they will be hailed as modern versions of Paul Revere.