“I don’t understand why most people here hate this guy.”
Partly it is because there is both good and bad about what he is doing. Depending on what he releases.
I personally have a tempered feeling about him. I see that he is doing some unjust harm, and I don’t like that. But I also see your argument which is also true much of the time, and it that regard he is doing a good thing.
Most people you have to understand are sheeple. They cannot weigh the good and the bad when it is being pounded in there ear that it is all bad. It was decided here by most to consider only the bad and to take this guy out without prejudice. Only those people can’t see they are empowering the all powerful big brother in the process. They are taking out there only chance to see through the veil of propaganda and protect there own freedom. And that is the power of sheepelism. One goes Bahhhh, and all the rest follow without thought.
What Wilkileaks really needed to do was to reform its policies so that it did not cross certain lines. That would have been a better debate to decide what those lines are instead of cutting off in full our only chance to see behind the curtain of Oz.
So welcome to “1984” or the “Brave New World”- or whatever you want to call it. In the end it is us who enabled it.
Revel, you’re a fine writer, with very well thought out conclusions, but you really ought to nail down the differences between “there”, “they’re”, and “their”.
/English teacher
Most people you have to understand are sheeple. They cannot weigh the good and the bad when it is being pounded in there ear that it is all bad. It was decided here by most to consider only the bad and to take this guy out without prejudice. Only those people can’t see they are empowering the all powerful big brother in the process. They are taking out there only chance to see through the veil of propaganda and protect there own freedom. And that is the power of sheepelism. One goes Bahhhh, and all the rest follow without thought.
Unfortunately, I agree. Everyone is just jumping on the bandwagon without thinking. It will be harder to deny the Iranian nuclear threat now for example. We are again reminded about our "friend" Saudi Arabia also.
Make no mistake, there will be a knee jerk reaction. We are already seeing it. Government will use this "leak" of relatively low level material to try and gain more power over the internet.
I personally have a tempered feeling about him. I see that he is doing some unjust harm, and I don’t like that. But I also see your argument which is also true much of the time, and it that regard he is doing a good thing.What did it for me was when he published the clear names of countless Afghans who informed on the Taliban invaders. They are getting their throats cut, and this arrogant little bastard just shrugs it off. He deserves a bullet in the neck for that one alone.