Julian Assange On 'Digital McCarthyism' - Interview w/ Cenk Uygur

[CherylK]

Run time: 00:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry3TCs6r6iM   Posted on YouTube: December 23, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 11862   Posted on DU: December 25, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1332

 
Watch the full interview/read the transcript here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL8g3vye4xo

[defendandprotect]

1. Assenge may be the last voice for a free press that we hear ... IF other journalists don't begin

to react to this fascist/CIA/Pentagon/corporate control of our "news."

Assange is brilliant -- he's carrying forth the message that Jon Stuart began

with a few years ago before he got sidetracked into whatever hole he fell into?

It was a pure and great message -- save the "free press" -- didn't happen then.

This may be the last message --


Watching full interview -- thank you!

[WillyT]

2. HUGE K & R !!!

:kick:

[ooglymoogly]

3. Kr. Anyone who does not yet realize we are on a death march

to fascism needs his head examined.

[1American]

4. ASSange

So, I guess all of you who consider this as "freedom of the press" would not object to having your home phone number, address, bank account balance and number, names of your family, friends, their phone and address numbers, their emails, their bank accounts, their bosses' name, home phone number, address, his or her family names, social security numbers, bank accounts, emails, and all personal information possible--including health information......? I suppose what is anti-American is just dandy, but when it comes to YOU, your DEMAND PRIVACY---AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS JERK DID ABOUT HIS INFORMATION. I don't give a rat's rectum what Jon Stewart or anybody else expresses. There is a limit to freedom of the press when it affects U.S. integrity, the safety of our troops, and the secrecy or our agents collecting information about our devoted enemies.

[cpwm17]

5. Yes, people don't like that type info exposed

So I think it's nice that Wikileaks exposed what the US State Department was doing at the UN. Fellow diplomats from other countries now know of some of the dirty tricks our diplomats are up to.

Our politicians work for us. We pay for them. What they do behind closed doors is our business. They have proven over and over that what we don't know can and often does hurt us. Transparency is needed.

[fascisthunter]

6. your hypothetical isn't even intellectually honest

as of now, our rights to privacy are at a loss because of this corporately-controlled pathetic government you defend. Your conflation of privacy rights and the exposure of our government is laughable and nauseating all at the same time. We the People deserve transparency... you defend the enemy of freedom and no warping of reality will change that fact. One must be warped to even try to conflate the two as you feverishly tried to do.

[ooglymoogly]

7. That is not even a respectable straw man.

You have the feet in the mouth, the head up the ass, its hands so frantic in hysteria; it can't even stand up on its own two feet to be knocked over.