It’s amazing how similar Soetoro’s reaction to Wikileaks has been to his reaction to the oil leak. Nothing.
Then he shuts down practically ALL oil drilling.
Does this provide a clue to his next action with regard to Wikileaks? I.e., simply shut down American diplomacy?
If your goal is to reduce America to Third World (or Fourth World) status, why does America need diplomacy or a functioning State Department?
Why has Soetoro continued the “fighting” in Afghanistan, with more loss of life in 2010 than in all of 2001-2008?
Cover. It lulls the people who WANT to believe they have a President who is a patriot and is interested in defense. It’s just part of the pose.
There was an excellent article in the WSJ this morning that analyzed Assange as a Unabomber-style anarchist and said that his objective is actually to shut down or restrict the circulation of information because he knows that the US, like any large entity, needs to be able to circulate information in order to function efficiently. He has specifically declared this himself in some of his manifestos.
He regards the US as the source of all evil, a technological, structured society that destroys the "authentic" and "natural" societies of the Third World, and he feels that the way to bring it down is to hamstring it through lack of information to such an extent that it can no longer function.
The State Dept, the Defense Dept. and others have already responded by shutting down some of their internal information sources and even by prohibiting their employees from viewing outside information sources. So I'd say he's carrying out his plan pretty well.
He and Obama are actually on the same side. As Dinesh D'Souza pointed out, Obama is the last of the anti-colonialists, someone who sees himself as the Third World Avenger, come to strike at the Great Satan from within; and Assange is exactly the same. Assange's only criticism of Obama is that he did nothing overt to oppose the normal functioning of US information gathering or exchange.
People here who see Assange as doing anything positive are absolutely deluded. His whole scheme is an attempt to shut down information, and he is being quite successful at it. Obama is saying nothing precisely because he has the same goals as Assange. (Both of them, btw, see the UN as the only legitimate power in the world.)
>>”Does this provide a clue to his next action with regard to Wikileaks? I.e., simply shut down American diplomacy?”<<
Or shut down the internet completely? Didn’t 0bama say “there is way too much information out there?” in regards to the www?
We all may wake up tomorrow morning and find out that the internet has been shut down under the auspices of “protecting our national security”.