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Where's the Assange thread?

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Created by NotWal > 9 months ago, 11 Dec 2010
nebbian
WA, 6277 posts
19 Dec 2010 10:43AM
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Mobydisc said...

Exposing the deliberations and dealings of "our" representatives can only be healthy for democracy. If they are doing nothing wrong then they should not fear exposure. If they are doing wrong then they don't deserve to represent us unless we are happy for them to do wrong. If they are our representatives then they should be prepared to be open about everything they do on behalf of us.



Coincidentally this is almost exactly the same argument they gave us when the current government were talking about net filtering and logging a little while ago. Sucks when the shoe's on the other foot, hey [}:)]

Hiko
1229 posts
19 Dec 2010 1:01PM
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Mobydisc said...

Hiko said...

Its a moral minefield that I dont think there is a hard and fast solution to
Certainly I think Manning is wrong if he is guilty of betraying trust
Assange? Well he is assuming that he is totally right in spreading the betrayed trust
which if he hadnt done so would not be betrayed trust hmmmm



If Manning and Assange are in the wrong for betraying trust then many members of parliament and almost all cabinet ministers are in the wrong too coz they betray the trust placed in them as representatives of their constituents.


Exposing the deliberations and dealings of "our" representatives can only be healthy for democracy. If they are doing nothing wrong then they should not fear exposure. If they are doing wrong then they don't deserve to represent us unless we are happy for them to do wrong. If they are our representatives then they should be prepared to be open about everything they do on behalf of us.

That's what being a representative should be all about.










Sounds to me that you are saying that governments and their representatives should not have private conversations and deliberations at all. Well, our ones anyway

Bigwavedave
QLD, 2057 posts
19 Dec 2010 3:46PM
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Has anyone actually viewed wikileaks.org?

We're not just talking about Kevin calling someone a douche in an email.

There's some serious stuff being exposed by wikileaks. Underhanded stuff that we're being lied to about.

Evil, murder and dishonesty should never be buried.

After reading some stuff I realise why things are being manipulated to shut Assange up.

Trant
NSW, 601 posts
19 Dec 2010 5:57PM
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Mobydisc said...
Exposing the deliberations and dealings of "our" representatives can only be healthy for democracy. If they are doing nothing wrong then they should not fear exposure.


Oh I don't know. Exposing some diplomat's opinion of the French president, not really relevant and simply embarrassing.

Exposing the top US installations "critical to US security", aka a list of "Great targets for Terrorists", probably quite damaging.

Amnesty International asked Julian not to publish some names in Afghanistan, he agreed but only after they'd already been published.

There's some good information that's come out, but I believe some information should remain confidential for good reasons.

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
19 Dec 2010 6:19PM
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If the powers that be knew this sort of information would get out then perhaps they would not start these wars in the first place.

It will be interesting when they get down to the minutes of discussions on the invasion of Iraq. If government was open to the people it rules, how many of them would start a war? I doubt even the National Socialist government of Germany would have started a war if the German people had known the trickery and deceitful behaviour government agents were committing to start a war, a war few Germans wanted.


I used to read Wikileaks a bit back when it was in a wiki format but haven't really looked at it since it became mainly a system of submitting documents.




SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
19 Dec 2010 9:09PM
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There's some good information that's come out, but I believe some information should remain confidential for good reasons.


Exactly , and this little karrfuffle will ensure that we are kept in the dark on some sensitive matters in future ,as mushrooms should be .

wait a minute , just need to dash of for another wikki , must be the cold weather. Back soon. ........

tobes
NSW, 1000 posts
20 Dec 2010 7:47PM
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