I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?
No really, that is the opening sentence of his column, verbatim.
In case you didn’t know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — effort to disclose secret or classified information. In a series of recent dumps, he unveiled thousands upon thousands of classified documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military and other government officials insist that WikiLeaks is doing serious damage to American national security and is going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis and Afghans who’ve risked their lives and the lives of their families to help us.
Even Assange agrees. He told the New Yorker earlier this year that he fully understands innocent people might die as a result of the “collateral damage” of his work and that WikiLeaks may have “blood on our hands.” WikiLeaks is easily among the most significant and well-publicized breaches of American national security since the Rosenbergs gave the Soviets the bomb.
So again, I ask: Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?
It’s a serious question.
Because that's how a serious SOCOM operator like Jonah Goldberg rolls. Anyone who has pesky facts about the very real war Cheney's fake intel operation drummed up needs to be rubbed out, says the guy in the cushy office chair.
The far more bloody and treasonous act of getting us into a war with Iraq? Totally justified. Serious questions from a hard, hard man.
And by "hard", I mean his cogitator is filled with cement. Flying Spaghetti Monster save us from these idiots. The country is on the verge of implosion. We don't have time for this crap right now. Just put on your black hoodie and sneak around outside Assange's hotel whistling your ninja theme song there Jonah, and take care of the problem yourself, huh?
Meanwhile, no mention of Obama's October Surprise terror plot. I mean after all, we have to blame the party in power when there's a foiled terror plot right before the election yes?
ReplyDeletelemme guess: the bushies were NEVER guilty of whatever the fuck it is you're accusing obama of. do you ever get tired of being an idiot? it must be embarrassing to ask other people to tie your shoes for you.
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