Why is it that nobody seemed to have a problem with this guy leaking classified (I'm assuming that much of it was classified, but I'm not 100% sure) military information about Iraq and Afghanistan . . . but once he began releasing diplomatic correspondence and mentioned that damaging information about one or more major U.S. banks would be forthcoming, you suddenly have his website being hacked and chased off servers all over the world, and the attorney general of the U.S. calling for an investigation?
I don't know if the guy is a hero or a criminal (maybe both?), but I'll tell you something -- he has really touched a nerve with a lot of big-government leftists in government and industry right now.
Bump.
It’s absurd that “nobody had a problem.” What are you talking about? Everyone I knew, and certainly Rush and most of the commentators, “had a problem.” Of COURSE we have a problem with someone who is trying to destroy our military and our diplomacy. This is a straw dog, and I don’t know where it came from, but the guy is a criminal and should have been locked up a long time ago and to hell with stupid, ridiculous bank-conspiracy theories.
Why is it that nobody seemed to have a problem with this guy leaking classified (I'm assuming that much of it was classified, but I'm not 100% sure) military information about Iraq and Afghanistan . . . but once he began releasing diplomatic correspondence and mentioned that damaging information about one or more major U.S. banks would be forthcoming, you suddenly have his website being hacked and chased off servers all over the world, and the attorney general of the U.S. calling for an investigation?
I don't know if the guy is a hero or a criminal (maybe both?), but I'll tell you something -- he has really touched a nerve with a lot of big-government leftists in government and industry right now. "
The sad reality is it doesn't really matter what the majority of people think whether right or wrong.
Money rules. The most recent bubble to burst is the mortgage security racket. On deck is the student loan bubble (non dis-chargeable in BK). If you don't have a degree don't bother standing in line for the job at the land-fill.
I really feel bad for those who've paid off their mortgages and I further hope they received their ORIGINAL Satisfaction of Mortgage document. The fact is this securitization mess is a ponzi scheme on top of a ponzi scheme.
Florida's nationally unique "Rocket Docket" judges are the pets of the big banks and their "foreclosure mills".
It's sad that everything is about money but it is. The big banks were so eager to make loans (and immediately "securitize" them) they didn't bother with underwriting standards.
Why? Because not only did they insure the loans at the outcome-based value with AIG's Credit Default Swaps, but they also took short positions. In other words they placed bets that the loans would not perform. This created an incentive to make the largest loan possible to borrowers with the least likelihood of paying it back.
The investors (who refuse to be identified lest their tax-exempt REMIC status becomes exposed) have been made whole by the third party credit default swaps, the trusts are closed, and the "servicer" buys the rights to illegally "service" a loan that has been extinguished by the terms specified in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. Can anyone say "securities fraud"?
What is ironic is the large financial players are now realizing these big banks and their ponzi schemes are being exposed and are shorting the banks.
That means they will make a lot of money and lobby (bribe) the legislature to tear down the banks and their fraud.
Where is the Florida Bar in all of this? Oh, they are busy threatening activist groups who SEE the fraud (crime) that has taken place.
What goes around comes around as they say.
All of a sudden the "rule of law" will become important and other financial institutions will use that "rule of law" to take the money for themselves.
The Wiki uproar did not rev up until rumors started swirling about big banks being exposed. What will be divulged? Emails from bank execs joking about how they've stolen money with the nodding approval of their govt. puppets?
People who don't realize this by now never will.
The pendulum will swing and the predator will become the prey.