[Infowarrior] - more on.....Sunday Bobbleheads and WL

[Richard Forno]

I agree w/RSK's observation.

I would add that another part of this problem is that "the powers that be" choose to focus the majority of their wrath not on those not who disclose stuff (Manning) or their own internal oversights that allow such situations to happen as much as those who facilitate that disclosure more broadly (Wikileaks). 

The USG is in spin control, not necessarily about political embarrassment from Cablegate, but because it doesn't want or know how, to deal with really fixing the underling technical, social, cultural, and political reasons that led to the incident ot begin with.

--- rick

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org>
> Date: December 5, 2010 2:17:38 PM EST
> 
> It's occurred to me that many folks out there have (for their own
> reasons and purposes) played this card:
> 
> 	"What if someone dies as a result of what Wikileaks publishes?"
> 
> Then they will have died for the truth.
> 
> But people die for lies EVERY DAMN DAY.  Half a million (at least) have
> died in Iraq since 2003 -- ours, theirs, neither -- because of a lie.
> And that's just one notable/recent/large instance: anyone who follows
> the news can find more at will.
> 
> Why is this sense of outrage not directed at the liars instead of
> those who are telling the truth?
> 
> ---rsk
>