2012-08-16, 01:46 PM
Flonne Wrote: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.
The only thing leaked, even remotely close to some semblance of corruption was the accidental killing of the reporters. They should of never swept it under the rug. Civilian casualties happen, but they should of came clean instead of trying to hide it. As for the rest of the stuff, there was no corruption. It was all logs, and messages, etc. If it was something crazy corrupt and that could change things, go ahead and leak it. But the information that was leaked didn't do anything but piss off the US. It's likes he deliberately wants to screw with us for no reason. Also, I don't think he should die at all, but I do think he needs to be arrested.
What pisses me off is that people paint Assange as some hero.They say he exposes truth, but what has he really exposed? Just operation logs, records, strategies and pomegranate that does not benefit the public in any way. If it was something like "US deliberately infected people with AIDS for tests" then I could understand, but this is nowhere near close.