[lbo-talk] Wikileaks according to The Guardian

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 28 17:49:13 PST 2010


On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Doug writes:
>
> "So what's Assange's life expectancy? 6 months?"
>
> I don't get any of this. Is any of this stuff they are uncovering news to anyone? EVERYBODY knows that U.S. embassies are spy centers. The U.N. stuff is creepy but also not surprising.

Lese majeste. You don't embarrass the USA and get away with it. It doesn't matter that we all "knew" it. Learning that Hillary signed an order to get Ban-ki Moon's iris and DNA info and AmEx numbers is not something they can tolerate. And who knows what's next? Examples must be set.

Doug



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