[lbo-talk] Protests being planned around the world in support of WikiLeaks` Julian Assange

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] They may be harmless to the power structure, especially that they do
not reveal anything that is not already known to careful observers, but they
embaras  top functionaries in that structure.  So I suspect that the
reaction against Wikileaks is more of a personal nature - a rage of the
emperor after it was publicly stated that he indeed has no clothes.   That
may explain the relatively calm reaction of the powers that be to the
Wikileaks - if they saw it as an actual threat to the power structure
(rather than their personal image), they would have shut it down and the
people running it long time ago.

Wojtek

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> Those leaks in themselves are harmless; they do nothing to put forward left
> aims. But those more or less in power don't understand this, and they are
> resorting to repression. And attempts at repression are a major (perhaps
> the
> only) kind of event that can generate serious resistance..
>
> Carrol
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