Special Ops Forces Should Snatch WikiLeaks Founder, Counterspy Says
Julian Assange has made a serious error in judgement in releasing classified documents. Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive Kenneth E. deGraffenreid makes a great case for using a Special Operations Task Force to drag this cowardly bastard to face judgment for what he did.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
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Posted on July 30, 2010, in Corruption, Military Intelligence, Military issues, War on Terror, You’re kidding right?. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
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It won’t happen, but that would be awesome.
Agreed. I’d personally like to tar-and-feather the fallow bastard. Fate will do him in eventually.
A long time ago I was an Army analyst. There is no question: when American secrets are compromised money is wasted, oppression advances, and worst of all patriotic Americans lose their lives.
Academia, the media and socially-oriented organizations (including brick-and-mortar churches) have vital roles to perform in checking and balancing our government. However, when all that may be permissibly publicized represents one narrow, propagandist perspective, freedom is in greater danger than if we were in prisons or chains. Thomas Jefferson said, “No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.” Aren’t witnessing that truth first-hand?
The irony I see today results largely from etiquette run amok as Political Correctness. John Adams noted, “touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.”
Adams and Jefferson foresaw the dangers we now face. Freedom is not free. The price of vigilance really is every lesser thing we hold dear: our dreams, our fortunes, and even our lives and families. The only thing they can’t take from us is our faith and our conviction; however, these have been trivialized, marginalized, and distorted so the hornets might more easily advance their deceptive doctrines. We have been ostracized not because our beliefs lack merit, but because anything opposing their beliefs is a threat.
James said, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.” Our Lord said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Keep your eyes on the prize. Persevere. Remember who you are and whom you serve. Don’t be ashamed or embarrassed or marginalized because of your faith. Instead, boldly proclaim God’s Truth. Expose their deception for what it truly is: complicity with the Enemy’s plan steeped in ignorance and genuine intolerance.
Vérité;
You’re a good man and a clear thinker. Thanks for the healthy slice of lucidity. In a blog full of good thinkers, these words jump out profoundly to me.
Well said my friend.
Why are so many conservatives so opposed to seeking answers and just fall in line with what you’re told (by GOP members only)? Many conservatives I know are perfectly happy with the reason the Bush Administration gave for what happened on 9/11 and to question that is unpatriotic. I see the same thing here with the documents posted on wikilinks. The cost to us American’s for the war in Afghanistan is $3 Trillion dollars and rarely 2,000 war dead. You’re not curious a bit curious as to where the money went or what the mission is? Julian Assange is keeping transparency in our Gov’t and what is being done in our name. You should be thankful for that. But i know, i know, its so much easier to just hear the rightwing talking points and buy that as your reality
Hi Troll;
Perhaps you aren’t understanding something, or you misread, or your belief system is so wretchedly blinkered as to not be worth commenting on. Questioning war is not “unpatriotic,” as you put it. The problem is when those on your side go out of their way to sabotage the war effort by exposing our allies as well as our own military to harm against an enemy that would gladly do you in as fast as any [insert your stupid term for a conservative here]. Julian Assange is not an American citizen. He is a cretin of the worst order, an anti-war hack, and would never dare do this to anyone else. The ax he has to grind is against this country. As for reality, you wouldn’t know it if it smacked you in the ass and called you ‘Sally’.
Amiee,
Do you really believe conservatives are opposed to seeking answers and just fall in line with what they’re told by their fellow conservatives? Let me (hopefully) disillusion you a bit.
Not one well-informed and active conservative I know was “perfectly happy” with the Bush Administration’s explanation for what happened on 9/11; however, to accuse our leaders of involvement or otherwise impugn their integrity struck me and those like me as playing into the enemy’s plan. On the other hand, liberals did exactly that–and it did and still does strike me as most certainly unpatriotic. I believe it’s very deeply a matter of perspective versus credibility. I personally find conservative leaders more credible than liberal conspiracy theorists, illegal aliens, enemy states, or the terrorists they provably support. Conservative conspiracy theorists find BP and the state of Arizona more credible than Obama, his miniature pincer (Rahm Emanuel), the mainstream media, the political (and suppressive) arm of academia, or their close buddies over at ACORN. In both cases, people are disposed to believe those they find more credible.
Liberals normally accept what their professors taught them as well as whatever Obama says, and what they hear on MSNBC, CNN and The View; conservatives don’t. On the other hand, Conservatives typically believe in absolute truth, the sanctity of life from conception, accountability (people should have to answer for their decisions), a strict reading of the constitution including the right to keep and bear arms, and the overarching values of fiscal and governmental restraint. But don’t believe we saw Bush as the perfect conservative. That said, I actually do see Obama as a knee-jerk, archetypal, idealistic liberal–as a patriotic American he scares the hell out of me.
We can argue about costs (in dollars and lives) all day, but here’s the reality as I see it: of the few clear promises Obama made–on the one he most belabored, getting out of Bush’s (Clinton’s?) war–Obama has failed miserably.
I don’t know what “rarely 2,000 war dead” means, but I have to admit I am curious about that. As a member of the military community, I am THRILLED that their missions have remained largely clandestine despite widespread coverage. It’s been well documented that media compromises cost tens of thousands of lives on all sides in Vietnam. We don’t need more of that.
My take is that Julian Assange is an international criminal. He is also a citizen of our strong ally, Australia. I will be thankful when he is held accountable for espionage, because “the unauthorized acquisition and dissemination of a nation’s classified information” is the doctrinal definition of espionage and precisely what Assange has done.
In closing, to find rightwing talking points, one must do a bit of research. On the other hand, all you need to hear the opposing position (AKA idiocy) is to turn on your TV. Sadly, that appears to be your reality.
Vertie, you have some interesting points. however i think the such factiods like the USA building the largest embassy the world has ever seen, larger than Vatican City, in Iraq, well that’s fueling the hate toward America much more so than us liberals wanting more information. that’s the dif between conservatives and liberals. liberals question our gov’t. conservatives just fall in line, a pat on the head for being a good German
Aber ich bin auch Jude! Ich bin jüdischer Abstammung, ein Christ nach Wahl, und ein konservativ, weil wir wirklich denken mehr als Liberalen … mein Gott!
Feel free to run that through http://translate.google.com/ if your German isn’t up to snuff. It made living there from 2005-’09 much easier than the year I spent there in 1990-’91–even with 2 years of university German in ’86-’88.
Okay, here’s my question for you: Do you honestly question the current administration, do any professors of your acquaintence, and does the media?
Here’s my response–the reason you believe only liberals question and that all conservatives fall in line is because liberals (i.e. public school–and the vast majority of university–students) have been propogandized to believe we are dissenting in unison while you all are somehow questioning as free thinkers. My concern is that none of us is asking the right questions or looking deeply enough. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes it’s hard not to think that under the biggest rocks lie grand manipulators who feed us enough factoids (information resembling facts) to keep us distracted while advancing dangerous hidden agendas meant to enslave everyone–first mentally, but ultimately politically and economically. What if chains, cells and disappearances are reserved for those who dig too deeply…it kinda makes me want to stop talking about it. Other than that, I feel free (even obligated) to question anything.
that’s the dif between conservatives and liberals. liberals question our gov’t. conservatives just fall in line, a pat on the head for being a good German
Since you have obviously just graduated high school or are early in your university schooling, I will refrain from telling you just how stupid that statement is. Let us know how PO101 goes for you.