Wiki Leaks

Several readers have wondered why I haven't commented on the Wiki Leaks disclosures. I suppose it must seem strange since I've had an opinion on everything else and a demonstrated wilingness to share it with the willing and unwilling. In this case, though, I find it hard to have one because I've always assumed the political and ambassadorial worlds were underhanded and two-faced anyway. When it's your job to deny oil, nuclear power, influence, and power to everyone else, you probably aren't trying for halo of the year.

In this respect, the releases simply confirm my assumptions. Some Muslium leaders drink, other leaders feel entitled to buxom assistants, some flatter people they despise, some feather their nests with the money stupid other leaders think will buy their support, some pay their mistresses on expense accounts--'twas ever so and I'm afraid it is the stuff of yawns. The National Enquirer does better because it's not hampered by any connection to fact. I read the leaks with the same feeling I have when reading that George and Barbara Bush are divorcing, Miachel Douglas is dying even though he is popping up in Disneyland looking hale, and aliens have landed in DC, demanding  the key to city of New York. The leaks are all innuendo and gossip--nothing earth shattering like when Israel plans to take out Iran's nuclear capability or when someone is going to plan an assassintation attempt on North Korea's Kim. Now THAT would be interesting. But cocktail party chatter? I've said worse about my boss and the Regents.

What I do find interesting is the reaction to the leaks. Someone told me that he considered the posting of the documents to be treasonous. Well, they can't be treasonous since treason has to be committed by a citizen of the country. Allenge is a citizen of Sweden not the US. I don't even know if it's espionage since I can't see who stands to profit except the military and diplomatic circles who need to do a better job of protecting their files, and I'm sure that's not what Allenge had in mind.

Frankly, I think there needs to be more of this sort of embarassing accountability. I rather enjoy seeing things come full circle and bite the perpetrator in the ass. I'm sure that the security system was put in by one of the big corporations running this country. Instead of Allenge, why not go after Halliburton or whoever put it in. Now that the Supreme Court says that corporations have the same rights as individuals, I'd love to see their asses sued off, just like the rest of us individuals. Oh, baby, you want free speech like the rest of us (supposedly) have? Be prepared to enter the slammer just as we can.

But of course our ham-fisted government is going after those who have exposed the cocktail chatter. God forbid that any of them might be playing guessing games about the future just like the rest of us, that they might admit in an e-mail what most of us have been saying anyway. Common sense reign? Of course not. Trumped up charges of rape, which I am sure are the result of US pressure on Sweden, and shutting down the site--free speech be damned--will be the result.

I say let him release the rest of them. Let's get rid of the idea that we are so infallible that our golden words must be protected against the light of day. Indeed, let's find out whether any of these so-called public servants are worth the money we spend on them.