Alec Baldwin: Wikileaks & Low Down Gutless Excuse For A Vice President Dick Cheney

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Alec Baldwin

Posted: December 4, 2010 02:09 PM

Hang One, Hang 'Em All

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/hang-him-from-the-rafters_b_792054.html

I hope they catch that WikiLeaks guy. I hope they catch him and prosecute him for all its worth. I hope they, legally speaking, throttle this guy within an inch of his life. If what he has done has truly compromised the safety of American intelligence and diplomatic operatives around the world, he should be punished for it. Even if you can not prove that anyone directly suffered as the result of those leaks, it's the principle, right?

Kind of like an attempted murder charge, right?

Only one condition. You hold formal hearings on the Valerie Plame scandal. And you put that Low-Down-Gutless-Excuse-For-A-Vice-President Dick Cheney and that crypto-fascist maniac Richard Armitage on trial. Same as Julian Assange.

Cheney and Armitage. Assange goes on trial, they go on trial.

[gateley]

1. I'd go for that. There's proof against Cheney, not sure Assange has broken any laws. nt

[The Second Stone]

2. That's not how an arrogant fascist country does things

Alec.

Assange, a foreign journalist, has no obligation not to publish US secrets. The First Amendment protects him as much as it protects foreign corporations. According to Citizens United, he has full First Amendment rights. And no criminal liability for journalistic acts done entirely outside the United States.

[bemildred]

3. Same rules for everybody. A government of laws, not of men.

:thumbsup:

[aquart]

4. I can work with this.

[pnwmom]

5. It should probably be Manning, the US citizen, and Cheney.

I don't know what laws apply to Assange.

[calimary]

6. Alec Baldwin speaks for me!

If Assange goes down, why not the war criminals too? I mean, for God's sake, the top-ranking among them has frickin' ADMITTED it in his new "book."

:banghead:

[molly77]

10. bush cheney and all

like to admit their war crimes in public. It sends a message. I am sure they are an embarrassment to all republicans..but also a reminder. You may be next. There are a few of them and a lot of US. The few are losing their power.Go WikiLeaks!

[Skittles]

7. PREACH IT, ALEC

:thumbsup:

[ixion]

8. It's sad to watch people focus on the messenger, rather than the message

Our outrage should be that our government is fraudulent and corrupt, not that this was exposed.

It's the ACT exposed that is relevant here. But when you've pointed out that the system is corrupt, it's not surprising to see the system refuse to prosecute itself.

[Citizen Worker]

9. Looking forward not backward applies to a very small group of people, the powerful. For all others

the rule of law will be strictly enforced.

[mudplanet]

11. Baldwin is overlooking the fact that Assange isn't a US citizen and therefore

cannot be accused of or convicted of treason. Assange owes the USA nothing, period. Not respect for its laws (unless he is on US soil) nor its image nor its desires. He has ZERO obligation to the USA.