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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Just Released A Massive 'Insurance' File That No One Can Open [View all]Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)We all have things we would prefer to not become general knowledge. In some cases (and I suspect a huge majority) those things hidden are criminal acts. Things like, petty theft at check out lanes (observing a mistake in pricing which benifits you) and the undetected intoxicated operation of motor vehicles. We all have an image of ourselves we would prefer to be the public one, and do take steps to defend it.
And no matter what we might wish our history as a country was. We, as collections of people are want to do, did things that were petty, undetected, criminal, disloyal, and benificial to ourselves. And within our big collection exist smaller collections, each with a history and position they would prefer to control.
All I am proposing is that Mr Assange might be wanting to change his situation and has information that a collection of people wish to keep hidden. I do not suggest that the targeted collection of people is the big collection, just 1 or more of the smaller ones.