[Zeppo]

A bit later he asks “How can we reduce the power of a conspiracy to act?” We can marginalise a conspiracy’s ability to act by decreasing total conspiratorial power until it is no longer able to understand, and hence respond effectively to, its environment. We can split the conspiracy, reduce or eliminating important communication between a few high weight links or many low weight links. Traditional attacks on conspiratorial power groupings, such as assassination, have cut high weight links by killing, kidnapping, blackmailing or otherwise marginalizing or isolating some of the conspirators they were connected to...

If he can deconstruct the world in this fashion, then there's no good reason why we can't do the same thing.

If you accept his premise, then there is a case to be made that he's in jail now due to a complete and total role reversal, wherein Assange and his Wikileaks co-conspirators are being split by "us" in order to marginalize their attempt at control...

Call it 'what goes around comes around' or karma or whatever...

[Springfield Reformer]

Deconstruction is a bit like Frodo’s Ring of Power. The user of it may see their cause as just, but deconstruction lures the user into presupposing some neutral meta-framework, immune to deconstruction, from which they may conduct their crusade.

And therein lies the flaw. If no particular gathering of force in the world is any better than any other, if there really is no right and no wrong, because all are acting under no more than the will to power, then the WikiLeaks’ self-image as heroic (or right or somehow better than their opponent) is illusory as well.

Thus deconstruction tends to the demise of those who accept its operational premise. Such become eventually incapable of moral judgment, and would rather see men and women die and nations become paralyzed than give up their reckless urge to show the moral superiority of their amorality.

Better are the words of Samwise, that there is good in the world, and it is worth fighting for (even if that fight requires the cautious and ethical use of information).

Or, as Solomon put it, only a fool actually blurts out everything that’s on his mind.