Anonymous Declares "Infowar" on Wikileaks Opponents

[acosn]

Throw him in the deepest jail cell in the prision deepest underground and throw away the key.



Honestly, 90% of what's been released is utter bull shit and at best a poor attempt at trying to brew anti-american opinion. Because that was hard to do today apparently.

10% of it is highly sensitive. Really all it'll take is for one American soldier to die because of his little leak and his ass is grass.


It was cute and novel in a kind of, "Ha ha." way when it was just the typical, "He said, She said" bullshit about what some diplomatic hoo-hah said to some other diplomatic hoo-hah but when he started broadcasting important data like what the US regards as highly sensitive high risk locations that are outside it's own jurisdiction it got out of hand.

 

[Deepzound]

There are no good guys and bads guys in this WikiLeaks game.

Its the little guy exposing things that, for better or worse, the most powerful entities in human history don't want out in the open, and that power is moving to absolutely crush this threat using every last dirty trick in the book. Propaganda, lies, distortion, strong-arm politics, smear campaigns, fear mongering, threats of execution, cohercing foreign governments and businesses into taking the website down...

Maybe there is a grain of truth in what the US and the right wing are saying about some of the leaks being irresponsible. Maybe. But what I find far more disturbing is that people are so ready to believe the propaganda lines put out by establishment power, be it business or political, or that which is put out by a media which reflects those interests. All the establishment has to do in America is bark "national security" and the sheep will fall in line. If they can throw something in about terrorism too, well then that's icing on the cake.

Fuck those people. The American political and corporate system does more damage on a daily basis throughout the world (including to Americans) than WikiLeaks could ever hope to accomplish. Most people know that, but some would prefer to carry on living in their fantasy world.

You've made one of the best posts in this thread.

It is sad that people are so easily manipulated into believing what the power that be wants them to believe. To those people I ask, how about reading some of the leaked documents yourselves, instead of blindly following what the government and propaganda tells you, and deciding if what you read could be of danger to "strategic military targets"?

No logs released as of yet have posed any danger whatsoever to military operations or strategic targets.

 

[Verp]

I'm in favour of WikiLeaks and I am happy to be part of a political party that does what it can to help WikiLeaks and its cause. I have more conflicting feelings about the involvement of the Anonymous, but I'm not against it, either.

 

[The Stonker]

Lol Schrodinger's Cat reference.

I generally tend to avoid any contact with Anon's because of the potential things like this happening. That analogy describes it best.

In reality, the internet is more like a box, and inside that box is a cat named Anonymous, existing in a quantum state of both great hero and wicked villain until an observer looks inside and is immediately driven insane by what he sees.

Or more letting out all the worlds nightmares out.
And leaving hope behind.