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Does truth endanger world peace?
Melody Sucharewicz
Published: 08.12.10, 01:25
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1. world real danger
einat   (12.08.10)
I agree with Iran being a great danger!
2. The greatest threat: the one to our freedoms
Deeply Scared   (12.08.10)
The US and other western governments want you to think that this Wikileaks is a threat to our security, our civilization, or something just as serious. What they don't want you to realize is that their attempt to silence Wikileaks and its publisher is an extremely serious and alarming blow to our freedoms. THAT IS THE GREATEST DANGER. The Obama admininistration has been trying to gain control of the internet for some time now. They are determined not to let this Wikileak crisis go to waste. Forget about Assange's personal reputation. It does not matter. We may not like the guy but we should support his right to publish those documents. We may not like the fact that he is selective in wanting to embarrass the US but not China or Russia. It does not matter. What matters is that he has the right to publish and we have the right to read what he publishes. Whoever stole the documents broke the law. But those who publish the documents do not. The assault on our freedoms is proceeding at an accelerated pace. Until a few days ago we were shocked at how - in the name of airport security - people are deprived of their dignity. Men, women and children are given pat downs in their private areas, or stripped electronically with X-ray machines. Those who protest are put on an Air Flight Watch Lists. They are marked for extra harassment and delays next time they try to book a flight or go through security. The State Department has warned students that if they discuss Wikileaks on social networks, they won't be given government jobs. And what is just as disgusting is that people we liked, such as John Bolton, Sarah Palin, and other right wingers who used to yell from the rooftops about Obama's threat to our freedoms, are now calling for the silencing of the Wikileaks publisher, for his arrest, and even for his assassination!!! Wake up, people! This issue is not about the State Deparment's embarrassment. This is about an attack on our freedom to read and to publish and to learn what our governments are up to.
3. Julian exposed a vile US State Dept. and deserves a
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (12.08.10)
congressional medal of honor for his actions. You don't see the arab countries that wanted Iran bombed screaming it wasn't true, that they are all muslum brothers, now do you?
4. the truth is
sara ,   jerusalem   (12.08.10)
most of time the truth is valid ..the question is ..can any one valid IRan... this is the truth which evry state must deal with ..wikilleak say comments but not the truth ..when arab leaders were honest to their people or to usa or ..hahaha to israil do they will not be honest to iran or to any truth
5. Iran
Ken ,   Australia   (12.08.10)
I dont want to get into the assange debate. But know we know of the iranians intent and what there behaviour really means. They have made it perfectly clear they are the real danger to world peace. They dont admit they know anything about the holocaust but, under the covers, they are really the 4th reich re-visited and the hitler re-incarnate knows this. If they deny the existance of 6 million jews , they will deny the existance of another 6 million jews existance, there is actually a state called israel which is not a zionest entitty and 7 million plus people live there.
6. If he lived in 1938?
Moshe ,   Netanya   (12.08.10)
7. WELL -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (12.08.10)
Does truth endanger world peace? - IF ALL MILITARY OPERATIONAL PLANS, WITH ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD COME FORWARD, WOULD THAT ENDANGER WORLD PEACE - ??? - YOU BET THEY WOULD. IF ALL THOUGHTS OF YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES, WOULD BE REVEALED - WOULD THAT ENDANGER FRIENDSHIP AND ACQUAITANCES - ??? - YOU BET THEY WOULD WOULD YOU YOUSELF WANT ALL YOUR THOUGHTS TO BE REVEALED TO ANY AND EVERYBODY - ??? - YOU BET YOU WOUNT. Arn.
8. Some of the secrets do endanger the entire world
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (12.08.10)
Why does the world need to know where the US tactical nucs are? For that matter why does the US State Department need that information? Since the Arab heads routinely say one thing to the Americans and another to their own people, yes that does present a real problem. Though the true problem is the Arabs are such liars to begin with. Listing venerable facilities to enable terrorist attacks is a true problem.
9. It proves Obama's wickedness.
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10. some things are kept secret for good reason
zionist forever   (12.08.10)
WikiLeaks is not a danger to world peace but it can make conflicts harder to fight.. Everybody loves to read about all the juicy secrets that our governments are not telling us but sometimes these things are being kept secret for a good reason. Some of the information posted on WikiLeaks compromises Afghans who are working with the US troops. ( the bad guys read WikiLeaks as well ) Private conversations with world leaders and diplomats get made public so it is going to mean that foreigners confide information if they think its all going to end up on the internet. What was the point in posting the fact that Obama didn't like Gordon Brown or he made some stupid comments about Jaques Chirac? Thats childish not major news. As for the information on Iran non of the information released was things that anybody didn't know. we all knew that the Saudis wanted either the US or Israel to hit Iran because they were worried about their nuclear program. Whilst we are fighting Julian Assange right now because he revealed the things we already knew about Iran what if he had posted top secret information about Israeli military and political secrets. This time he didn't have anything bad to say about Israel but next time he could release information which would be very harmful to Israel and iran, Syria, palestinians and every other enemy will be free to read it. There are some things the government should make public but don't but there is also some information that is kept secret for good reasons and the only reason Assange releases all this stuff is not because its in the public interest its because he is an idiot liberal idealist who doesn't believe in government having any secrets. If he knew what color underwear Obama was wearing he would consider it in public interest for the world to know and would publish it.
11. Does Reality Threaten World Peace?
Brazen   (12.08.10)
12. #11...of course it does..
Edithann ,   USA   (12.09.10)
Just look at the reality and truth telling of those 'hate-filled' Rabbis..They're not anomalies or even strangers to Jews or Israeli's..They and their rhetoric is familiar...all taught from childhood for generations.... They're the product of Torah/Talmud's 'Declaration of War' on all non Jews... That kind of thinking and belief system, so embedded into the Jewish psyche, is the reason Jews been so hated for centuries.. It's never been anti-Semitism.. That nonsense was always the excuse to maintain the necessary 'Jewish goy hating' that has always been so pervasive and is now 'out in the open' for the world to see .... TATA
13. #10...don't worry...
Edithann ,   USA   (12.09.10)
The Jewish 'goy hating' secrets have been known for centuries... TATA
14. to 10
sara ,   jerusalem   (12.09.10)
military secrets ..haha ask goldstone political secret ...haha aske obama ..it is the doing who speaks not ...lalatata boo
15. He deserves a gold medal
SE ,   Israel   (12.09.10)
What he did is best for all who love freedom, truth and democracy.
16. The Third opinion
Thomas ,   Dixieland USA   (12.09.10)
The web is awash in pro and contra articles, let's avoid repetitive posts. The US under Hussein O. made a 180 degree turn and became hostile to Israel. He is encouraged and supported by the American Jewry which is prominently Marxist, of the Trotsky-st variant: Permanent socialist world-revolution, Internationalism, "multikultism" (sic). Nation states like Israel, religion don't fit in. Inadvertently Wikileaks threw the monkey-wrench into the Kenyan design by causing complete disarray;- it also revealed to the word the incompetence of this administration. For downloading a song, or using a copyrighted logo a person can be hit with huge penalties, -yet facing disclosure of state secrets he is hapless and flustered. His delusional world is crumbling fast. So far so good.
17. Why do those who try to spin Wikileaks'...
Persian CAT   (12.11.10)
revelations to their benefits miss sound contradictory all the time? The author opines on one hand, "just like in private life, relationships between states that are based on shared values like democracy and freedom". The the author states, "On another note, the nuclear armament of the Iranian Mullah regime, as well as the justified fear by its Arab neighbours and their demand to stop Ahmadinejad were pulled out from diplomatic anonymity". Can she explain what the West's "shared values" with Iran's "Arab neighbors" are? I'm all ears. Does the author believe these "arab neighbors" welcome Israel's "secret nukes" that have been targeting their cities for decades? To the author, your spin does not pass the smell test.
18. How is the truth to be measured?
Olga ,   Lod, Israel   (12.11.10)
Nothing personal but 'the worst punishment of the liar is not that no one trusts him but that he cannot trust anyone’. If the truth is danger to the world, friendship and social relations, let lie all the time. The question is - where will we end up? Or, do you suggest some kind of device to measure the truth per day?
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