@Pat McDonald 491940 wrote:
Nah. Doesn’t matter how they’re transmitted – it depends on the people who are transmitting them either keeping their lips buttoned or thinking “You know, this really should be known by more people.”
It is amazing how people are still prepared to whistleblow. It’s not the same league as strapping plastique to yourself and blowing up some “target” but it’s still a form of martyrdom and to be frank most people don’t actually give a shit about whistleblowers.
to some extent yes, and there is no such thing as total security but everyone has a price. And same as one persons terrorist is anothers irregular soldier/freedom fighter, one persons whistleblower or undercover agent fighting for “freedom” is anothers informer / grass.
During the last war someone “blew the whistle” on Anne Frank and her family…. they got away, unpunished and unjudged at least for this crime.
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Assange has a certain amount of freedom. The cypher clerk who alledgely leaked is subject to military court martial and potentially the death penalty.
this is another even shittier side of what is going on. When it comes to freedom of expression, Ecuador isn’t much better than Blighty or the USA, its just that for whatever power games are going on it makes sense for them to tolerate Assange.
ultimately it may all be a minor issue when we get (more) war, real war of some sort in our lifetimes – there are things like environmental issues and declining resources which are going to put more pressure on folk or are clearly already doing so anyway leading to the ongoing conflicts – in many cases its not as if people are simply fighting each other for no good reason or merely religion or because they like it.
Even our last centuries history shows groups of otherwise very similar North European countries going to war with one another as much due to the aftermath of economic turmoil or disputes as being led by extremist political doctrines.
