From Zero Hedge:
The inevitable moment for the Wikileaks founder has arrived: the Telegraph is reporting that Julian Assange will hand himself in to police – possibly as early as Tuesday – after a fresh European Arrest Warrant was issued by the Swedish authorities. “Mr Assange is expected to voluntarily attend a police station within the next 24 hours, and will then appear in a magistrates’ court. He is wanted over allegations of sexual assault in Sweden.”…
Some are calling Assange a hero. Others a terrorist. Many seem pretty indifferent. My view: he’s a man who did a dumb thing, and likely did it for fame and money.
Its like this – governments, believe it or not, don’t just keep secrets in order to screw the people (though, of course, they do a lot of that, too). Some times things are secret because they actually need to be. It is hard to sift out when government is keeping proper confidences, and when it is just covering up embarrassing facts. The way we differentiate is by an MSM which actually investigates (and, unfortunately, most of the MSM doesn’t do that – and not just because a Democrat is President…even when they were hammering President Bush, they were doing it essentially via press releases from kook leftist, hate-Bush groups) and a Congress which conducts genuine oversight (also pretty absent of late). I know that we have a weakness here – but, even so, the way to correct the weakness is not to allow some darned fool of a Pfc to hand over our nation’s secrets to a man on the make.
Everything seems to be out there, now. We can’t really place a limit and say, “well, they got all this, but all that is still secure”. Our assumption has to be that our enemies – all of them, everywhere – know our deepest secrets. Now, we’ve presumptively plugged the leak and so from this point forward we can have a bit of safety – but everything we’ve been up to and are currently doing is now known, in whole or in part, by everyone. This is gigantically damaging to the United States and the world – for each bit of “got you, ya SOB” we’ve learned from Wikileaks about our government there is at least one bit of “wow, we didn’t want the enemy to know that”, as well. We’ll be years recovering from this – compared to this, the Rosenberg’s giving Stalin the atomic bomb was small beans. And we executed the Rosenbergs for that, you’ll want to recall.
We cannot allow that a person who has no responsibility for events to release data. It is time to rally ’round the President and the country on this one, boys and girls – we must crush the people who did this and ensure strongly against a repeat. Death, once upon a time, was the usual fate of the traitor (Manning) and the spy (Assange) – we might not want to go that far (though a strong case can be made for shooting the former and hanging the latter), but we definitely want them to feel so much heat that the next couple cretins who think along these lines will think again.
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