Maximum sentence of 52 yearsWhat are Bay12's thoughts on this issue? I feel that if the powers that be are doing wrong, then individuals stepping up in such a way are a necessity to prevent the abuse of power and that this issue needs to be DIRECTLY in the public's view lest we forgo any more of our already extremely limited ability to influence our country's use of armed forces, which exist (or should exist anyways) only as a way to defend our people and not as a tool for rich men to control resource wealthy countries.
I haven't seen any evidence yet that he leaked things particularly important to National Security, or more importantly my family's security; but rather things relating to the ability of the military and government to operate without the input of honest, interested, and concerned citizens. Then again, I have no idea what was in the other documents he leaked and likely never will if the government has it's way, but I still cannot fathom how hiding such things as a video of the massacre of unarmed journalists and the family who were brave enough to assist gravely wounded human beings is preferable to the public knowing about it, unless they fear to lose some control over us civilians. This makes me question why both Republican and Democrat politicians have so far refused to comment on the issue as far as I know. (please post links if you have them) It seems Democrat's support of human rights, and the Republican's support of a less powerful government would render the issue debatable, yet I wonder if they don't discuss it because it would weaken their ability to do whatever they want without telling us.
This issue and several other recent moves make me think I would gladly be a Tea-partier if it weren't for the fact that I believe that movement is mainly going to be used as a way to remove reasonable regulations that help keep extremely wealthy and powerful groups from harming others directly or indirectly for profit or power; instead of creating a more open government as it claims. I sometimes wonder if Mr. Obama's presidency was masterminded by the same people causing trouble in the world for money, but I suppose that's being too paranoid. I had my suspicions that it was bad news when he came out of no where with very limited experience to beat Clinton in the Democratic primary. My last and greatest hope for Obama is that he can get us out of these two wars of occupation without starting a new one or being dragged into another country's war. My fear for him is that the military's high brass are as corruptible as any other person and that he doesn't have enough experience to feel confidant in overriding them even if he may be correct to do so.
Anyways, my guess is that they will declare a blanket of secrecy over the entire trial to protect National Security. More like they are protecting their job security. I still have yet to feel my family's security is threatened by Afghani's in Afghanistan armed with AK47's and RPGs. If they have weapons of mass destruction, its another story, but there are none that we know of in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Western governments have been successful in preventing most if not all terrorist attacks since 9/11, thwarting attempts that originate from countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is an exception, but there are other threads for that with mixed opinions and I'd prefer not to drag that into this discussion.
Meanwhile, Iran is still chugging away at producing their own homemade nukes, and the UN twiddles while the greatest opportunity for Western interference in years passes by (Green movement) because they are stuck in two sticky messes already. It's like someone WANTS World War III to break out in the Middle East within a decade or two and is trying to stack the deck to make it happen. Somehow I get the feeling if that person exists it won't be his blood pooling out. Instead there would be many thousands of crispy civilians and millions of young men dead who could have been doctors or engineers or farmers; in the Realistic BEST case scenario of a nuclear age World War. Entire cities were destroyed in WW2; thinking that people would be behave in a more civilized manner in the era of the guided missile with which you don't even have to risk aircrews to ruin your enemy's civilian population is somewhat naive in my opinion. This is even with conventional warheads, rather then those blasphemous (against mankind) biological concoctions governments spend so much on to have even more ways to eliminate the entire human race if they can not control their section of it.
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