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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (68924)	12/1/2010 4:57:16 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217764

it provides an interesting view That transparency is what democracy lacks today but is what it needs to make it work...

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (68924)	12/1/2010 5:35:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

Hawk, I'm with Assange on this one. State secrets are normally bad secrets. The great merit of the USA is government by the people for the people. Process is conducted in open court and in public debate. The individual is being subsumed in absurdly dominant state processes. For Palin to compare Julian Assange with Taleban is actually insane. "Hey, this is what they are saying and doing in private" is a very reasonable thing to disclose. A turkey shoot from aircraft of individuals in Iraq was a perfectly reasonable thing to disclose. It's a shame such video of My Lai wasn't available [not that the two were directly comparable]. In a conflict of Jesus Christ with torturing murdering Roman Emperors I'd back the principles of Jesus. Personally, I agree with the perception that those seeking state power have a "-od complex". I think they see themselves as "puppet masters" pulling the strings of the world's people [and robbing them of opm to boot]". <Personally, I agree with the perception that Assange has a "god complex". I think he sees himself as a "puppet master" pulling (or at least revealing) the strings of the world's governments.> In a conflict of modern day individuals with the state, the burden of proof is on the state to show their benign good intentions and some public display of their secret processes is a good start. A lot of people quite reasonably feel that their lives are becoming units of state power rather than dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For the first half of the year, life is dedicated to paying the tax man. The second half is dedicated to complying with a smothering of regulatory burdens. Perhaps a few weekends a year a person is allowed to do a few trivial things as long as it's compliant, such as playing golf on town planned and permitted golf courses, or watching approved TV speeches by Obama. I have got Julian hiding in my basement. Before handing him over to the Roman Empire, they'll have to come up with something better than a couple of Swedish prostitutes claiming that they were naked in his room and he said something they didn't like. The sex charges don't pass the laugh test. If they spent more time finding Osama and less harassing individuals, life would be more pleasant. Mqurice