What's your take on WikiLeaks?

[andyrowe]

Poll question: What's your take on WikiLeaks?

Which best describes your thoughts on WL?

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1. How could WikiLeaks fail?

How would failure manifest itself?

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6. By them not being in the news any more or not getting any publicity

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11. The M$M will start covering Wikileaks less & less in the up coming days, like BP...!

[onehandle]

2. Where's 'Meh,' because I don't think there will be any real impact on anything.

Except for a few memos issued about curbing leaks.

[andyrowe]

3. edited to add meh

as an option.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. I love "meh"

Thats my favorite word these days...

[andyrowe]

5. i'm kinda indifferent to it. what's the word i'm looking for?

meh!

[Skittles]

7. I would like them to move from the government to Wall Street / banking

[applegrove]

8. Today a list of possible terrorist targets in Canada that were important to the USA. It is like

a shopping list for al Qaeda. I'm not happy to see stuff like that published.

[jotsy]

9. The frame on the responses available wouldn't be part of the meat on my take.

First two questions and the winning and losing language are what caught my nit picky eye, it's me. I don't much feel the way we measure those concepts works for me anymore. So that causes a harder look at the whole package and I'm sorry to say I found more that makes this poll unanswerable for me. The reason would be about how summations are tied into the options, going back to the first two questions again. Why public vs. private and why have that accompany the winning or losing? Absolutes and abstracts like can't, fear, and must are words that may not invoke genuine categorical inclination, and might serve to skew the body of results to your poll.

Subsequent questions are equally troubling; intentions, motivations, bringing down, these things strike me as judgment calls, and the kind of phrasing that I contend would be better avoided if the intent is to get a sincere feel for the pulse of this community.

There is a challenge in how to craft questions, and I'm sorry to be coming on from such a critical spot, but hope that my saying something will bring differently posed questions so I can answer them without wondering what interests lie behind the way they were asked.

As for my take? I see a difference between leadership and ownership. Wikileaks has made vivid the line that those chosen to provide the former instead engage in the latter has been well crossed. The United States, including its executive branch of the federal government which contains both the DOD and the State Department are publicly funded institutions belonging to its residents. If these departments who I pay to govern are engaging in strong arming the world into a global union built on the corporatocracy's agenda, I'll by any and all means necessary to counter that. A free press is a weight bearing pillar to the structure of this nation, for as long as we struggle to accept that, the democratic notion remains in as much peril as it did in the 1770's. Perhaps more so now is all manner of interaction sees its subliminal side exploited.

[andyrowe]

10. whoa

That was quite a well thought out comment. I have much to learn about constructing a meaningful poll. Mostly it was an attempt to gauge DU's feeling on WikiLeaks, as I've been away for too long.

I appreciate the time you put into your comment.