Obviously Robert doesn't know how to read... -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 15:09 To: cf-community Subject: Re: EFF - Countering the Fear and misinformation over Wikileaks
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > The law says that the first ammendment protects Newspapers, > journalists etc. > etc. when the publish information such as this. > He's not a journalist. His stated intention with these leaks is to damage the United States. Not to expose some uber-secret, but to cause damage generally to the interests of the United States. That makes him a non-state actor and links him to the global war on terror, or the clash of civilizations if you prefer, between radical Islamo-fascists and everyone else. In the American legal system, your individual constitutional rights are not absolute. In general, they extend only so far as to not interfere with the constitutional rights of others. Striking that balance between public safety and fair disclosure, for instance, has always been a major role of US courts. You say we don't prosecute people for this sort of thing, but has this sort of thing ever been done in wartime? Do you think Roosevelt would have tolerated having WWII diplomatic cables and military intelligence documents published in newspapers around the world? Remember, we're talking about a guy who imprisoned thousands of Japanese-Americans against their will for years without recourse to due process. Assange has stuck a big stick in a hornet's nest and he's about to pay the price. What a treasure of an irony, though, that Vladimir Putin is criticizing people who want to prosecute the so-called "journalist" Assange. After all, Putin doesn't prosecute journalists, he has them killed. And those folks are real journalists reporting on mundane political affairs like corruption in the federal government. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332683 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
