2012-08-16, 01:36 PM
Dystopiq Wrote:I honestly don't see why they are protecting him. Yes, he leaked classified documents (Which is an offense in the US) and none of it did any actual harm or caused any deaths, but at the same time he didn't end any "corruption" or expose anything serious (Aside from the incident with the Reuters reporters, pomegranate happens in war). Did his leaking of the documents help the people in any way? No. Did we benefit anything from the leaks of those documents?
"But we learned the truth!" What fucking truth? War logs? Operation files? How the hell does that help any one of us.
No. When it comes to intelligence, a leak is a leak, regardless of harm (Bradley Manning is a dumbass and deserves everything he's about to get. He broke the law. Period. He isn't some hero and if you think he is you're just a stupid as he is) Assange pineappleed with the wrong people. It's that simple. And now, he's about to get "The business".
My thoughts are that some information is classified because it would hurt those that are hiding it, but other information is classified because it would hurt the people reading it, and some information is classified for the security of a country and the people protecting it; what he leaked was the latter two. Some information needs to be leaked, because it exposes corruption and can cause a much needed "standard" to gather behind to form. Other information is hidden because they are actually thinking in our best interest, and if we knew some of the pomegranate that they do we would all be paranoid as pineapple over every little thing that happens in life. Also, it's not a very good idea to leak military documentation that you haven't even read first to make sure it doesn't contain future military operations, and it's already been stated that none of it was gone over beforehand.
That entire paragraph feels grammatically incorrect/awkward in some way, and it's going to bug me all day, but you get the idea I hope. I don't think we should kill him over it, but he certainly should not be a free man.