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A Lesson in Irony

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    Richard Andrew x64
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    The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

    The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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    • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

      The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

      The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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      wolfbinary
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      That's capitalism baby. government bad and never good; companies good never bad.

      That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_

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      • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

        The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

        The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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        Where is the irony? It is just another sign of the power of the "almighty dollar". While the leaks are arguably causing damage, it's still business as usual in the world today.

        Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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          Where is the irony? It is just another sign of the power of the "almighty dollar". While the leaks are arguably causing damage, it's still business as usual in the world today.

          Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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          Yeah I guess you're right.

          The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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          • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

            The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

            The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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            The sad thing is no one is really surprised. It just confirms the crassness of governments at work ares being the most powerful at the moment. People who think Obama is all that different from Bush when it comes to overseas should look up what Jeremy Skayhill has been publishing. If anything he's made things worse on the Afghan/Paki border. This is just proof of that. He's toned his words down here at home for the Democratic base, but doesn't do anything differently abroad. It's mostly just Kabuki theater. I found a very dead to dream thinking comment in a acticle[^] about accepting the world for what it is. That particular sentiment is what keeps the US from solving its own problems, that's defeatist.

            That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_

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            • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

              The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

              The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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              CaptainSeeSharp
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              That's because too many people will be pissed off if wikileaks is shutdown. People like wikileaks because they are fighting the government.

              Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (High Quality 2:14:01)[^] Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] The Truthbox[^]

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              • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                The U.S. can't/won't do anything to shut down the wikileaks website for distributing classified documents, however, if that site were distributing free music or movies, the site would be shut down REALLY fast.

                The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                Distind
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                There's also the bit where Wikileaks hasn't done anything technically illegal. At least according to the last few bits I've seen on the matter.

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                  There's also the bit where Wikileaks hasn't done anything technically illegal. At least according to the last few bits I've seen on the matter.

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                  Distind wrote:

                  Wikileaks hasn't done anything technically illegal.

                  Really? You mean according to international law, or US law?

                  The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                  • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                    Distind wrote:

                    Wikileaks hasn't done anything technically illegal.

                    Really? You mean according to international law, or US law?

                    The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                    More or less from the reviews I've seen. Since there's no solid reason for any of the released documents to have been secret, there's nothing to prosecute on that end. The person who leaked them may as well paint a target on their ass, but that's a different angle. Aside from vague handwave about putting lives at risk, there have not been any solid reasons given, and handwaving doesn't get far in court.

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