Unlike “security through obscurity”, this is security using extreme fear and horror! WTF!
[…]These actions have not gone unnoticed. Over the past two weeks, Wikileaks’ global support has grown until Wikileaks’ supporters were numbered in the millions, as the citizens of Western states were alerted to the accelerated decay of our democracies. The seriousness of the past two weeks’ events has not been lost on us. Assault has been openly conducted on the founding ideals of our political cultures, by the very officials elected to defend those ideals. In their rush to suppress Wikileaks by persecuting Julian Assange, our governments have made it clear that they are now hostile to their own people, and enemies of the sacred institutions and offices they now occupy. The constitutional rights established to protect us from the abuses of state power have been brushed aside.
We, at WL Central, condemn in the most serious terms this concerted assault on our democracies, carried out in the persecution of Julian Assange. Our support for Wikileaks has always been pursuant to our greater support for the ideals of a single standard of justice, and freedom from tyranny, towards which Julian Assange has worked with tireless dedication and at great personal risk. The persecution of Julian Assange is not the persecution of one man, but the persecution of us all. It is not a single injustice, but an injustice to end all pretence of justice. It is an emergency of historical significance.
We therefore address the governments and legislatures of the United States, of the European Union Member States, and the governments and parliaments of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Nations, including, and especially, the government of Australia.
We affirm
- That Wikileaks is now an integral pillar in the international fourth estate.
- That Wikileaks’ work since its foundation demonstrates exigent flaws in the political cultures of our democracies, with dire consequences for domestic and global justice.
- That Wikileaks is therefore of critical importance to the cause of reform in our societies, and of critical importance to the maintenance of our freedoms.
- That Wikileaks is in fact insuppressable, and that any attempts to suppress it will not attain their goal, but cause further harm to our legal orders, and to the relationship between the governments and their peoples.
- That therefore any attack on Wikileaks or its staff or supporters is to be interpreted as an attack on our political cultures themselves.
- That the Australian government will meet its duty of advocacy for one of its own citizens and defend Julian Assange to the limits of its means.
- That governments will recognize Wikileaks as enjoying the same freedoms to communicate information as do we all, as well as those freedoms particular to the press.
- That governments will react to Wikileaks, not by further compounding their mistakes, but by resolving to act so as to be beyond reproach.
We urge
Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin’ says Prof David Nutt:
The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who was sacked by the government in October 2009.
It ranks 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society.
Members of the group, joined by two other experts, scored each drug for harms including mental and physical damage, addiction, crime and costs to the economy and communities.
The BBC’s home editor, Mark Easton, writes in his blog that the study involved 16 criteria, including a drug’s affects on users’ physical and mental health, social harms including crime, “family adversities” and environmental damage, economic costs and “international damage”.
The findings run contrary to the government’s long-established drug classification system, but the paper’s authors argue that their system - based on the consensus of experts - provides an accurate assessment of harm for policy makers.
The Internet is for porn - unless you’re in Indonesia ;) [Just when you think Governments can’t get any more stupid]
What complete utter moron genius created (let alone commissioned) this official United States “Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation” page?
Here you will find in vaguely, for want of a better word… conspirational… prose with few or sometime no supporting facts, the official US governments position explaining that said government did not, in fact, blow up the towers of the World Trade Center; that the moon landings actually did occur; and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; or that the USA is not engaged with a “War on Islam” [*snort*]
Though the best statement must go to the lead in text:
Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored. As a superpower, the United States is often cast as a villain in these dramas.
Muwahahahahahaha…
Then again the whole page could be just a conspiracy to stop the conspirators knowing that they are even in a conspiracy. Or as Lao Tzu said “Those who know, don’t say. Those who say, don’t know.”
CONSPIRACY —> Cliques of Normals Secretly Performing Insidious Rituals Aimed at Controlling You
