U.S. v Wikileaks

So, here we go. President Obama and his administration and acting exactly as I would expect the Cheney administration to act, which means that they are acting completely contrary to what was promised when 'change' was in order.

I have seen a blog post somewhere that lists exhaustively all of the things that the Obama administraton has done. The list is quite impressive, but it really consists mostly of the stuff that is expected of any elected official, even if you have to deal with the largest collection of proof as to why abortion must remain legal in this country (the Republican Party). Speaking of abortions, I will address Peter King and Sarah Palin later, but for now, let's deal with the whole Wikileaks issue.

So, to make a long story short, PFC Bradley Manning felt that it was his ethical obligation to make publicly available the evil deeds, missteps, war crimes, or whatever you want to call it. The video of American soldiers killing Iraqi civilians and AP journalists from a helicopter gets published. That's real fucking brave. You couldn't even land and give them a fighting chance, could you? No, I didn't think so. The futility of the Afghan war is revealed by another publication, and suddenly Julian assange has charges pending in Sweden. Gee, what a fucking surprise. The Pirate Bay is guilty of violating copyright laws that do not aplly to them and now manufactured sexual assault charges just happen to spring up against the head of the one website that the U.S. government would really like to see shutdown (but can't do in the same way that it does with torrent sites, because that would be censorship, and the U.S. government doesn't censor - because of the 1st Amendment- they just implicate people for rape). I'm starting to think that Sweden has a better chance of being a state before Puerto Rico. Back to the short story; some more 'pressure' is put one Wikileaks, and now here we are. The U.S. State Department's dirty laundry is now being aired. Shit from before the Internet existed is now exposed. Why?

Because the Obama administation is just the same old thing. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. There are many ways that Obama could have distingished himself from his predecessors. Prosecuting the Bush administration for war crimes is one way. Not appealling the ruling of DADT as unconstitutional is another one. Pressing the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to force the Republicans to stand up and actually filibuster the health care reform bill also comes to mind.

Let's face it. we should have vote for Hillary Clinton, instead of Barack Obama. With Hillary Clinton as the first female president, she may be a bitch, but at least she would be nobody's bitch. Instead we voted for the first black president, and we got the house nigger. If we elected Hillary maybe we would have gotten a president with balls.

President Obama, if you want to stop Wikileaks, here is how you do it. Stop the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and anywhere else that U.S. operative, spies, and soldiers are depriving the rights of indiginous people of the right that you claim to be defending for Americans. Stop using U.S. clout in the world to exert corporate agendas. And finally, stop trying to get Julian Assange arrested in other countries for manufactured allegations, stop asserting pressure on their financial resources, and stop with the "national security" rhetoric. Wikileaks, just like Woodward and Bernstein, are making public (in a responsible manner) things the republic needs to know. Without Woodward, Bernstein, and Wikileaks, this country would live in the tunnel vision that would be the Cheney administration's ideal populous.