POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Anything which could possibly endanger the interests of the military-intelligence-security apparatus of the United States is not necessarily a bad thing.
Indeed, America's government within a government deserves all the sunlight cast upon it possible.
Every inadvertent negative that can come out of something like this is more than offset by increased public awareness of the extent to which the contemporary United States Establishment works actively against democratic and human values in the world.
There is a dark engine throbbing away in the basements of the American military-intelligence-security apparatus today that relatively few fully appreciate, and it works only for the imperial interests of corporate America and no one else.
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"Julian Assange: psychopath who uses the Internet to endanger peoples' lives and livelihoods without any empathy or remorse."
A list of some genuine psychopaths:
George Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
Dick Cheney
Condi Rice
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Hillary Clinton
Half the employees of the CIA and related agencies
Most of the members of American Special Forces
Many of the leaders of American corporations (a recent study actually shows this)
Whether Assange should be included, I don't know, but you know the old argument of fighting fire with fire.
