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On 12/7/2010 6:54 PM, Simon Biggs wrote: > It should be Assange arresting all the governments and their cronies. They > have it the wrong way round. > > Wikileaks has revealed, with concrete evidence, how so-called "democratic" > governments are little more than criminal cartels who are happy to > incarcerate those who seek to lift the veil on their activities. There is no > difference between China or the US, the House of Saud or the UK, Burma or > Germany. Each of these Mafia-like organisations recognises themselves in one > another. This is no surprise to them, only to us suckers who vote for them > (if they allow us this crumb of illusory comfort). > > We are obligated to do something to remove these criminals - but what? It > seems difficult when they have convinced us that they run the planet. > However, the Wikileaks approach looks a good option. If you pummel > government with evidence of their own lies they will retrench to their > safest ground, as all the paranoid will. Once retrenched, with a smaller (if > trusted) footprint, they are more vulnerable. This pressure has to be > sustained to work (that is why the leaks are let out slowly). Eventually the > circle of trust will be far smaller than the ring of threat that surrounds > it. Assange is quite brilliant, although this is basic anarchist theory. > > However, like a cornered animal, the government will, when the pressure is > at its most intense, be vicious and dangerous. The seizure of Asssange is > symptomatic of this and thus evidence they are on the run. I imagine Assange > might be quietly pleased by how this is playing out. However, the question > now is how to push the advantage? If that doesn't happen the veil will again > be lowered. But if the attack is pursued the power of these criminal elites > will evaporate in the harsh light of day. > > The next few days, perhaps weeks, will be critical. Any vestige of freedom > depends on it. > > Best > > Simon > > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] [email protected] > Skype: simonbiggsuk > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > Research Professor edinburgh college of art > http://www.eca.ac.uk/ > Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice > http://www.elmcip.net/ > Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts > http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > > >> From: "xDxD.vs.xDxD"<[email protected]> >> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:58:16 +0100 >> To:<[email protected]> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] arrested >> >> Julian Assange arrested >> http://julianassangearrested.tumblr.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
