State Dept. celebrates global press freedom, while crushing it

I appreciate all your comments. I don’t agree with many things done by the US Government either but that does not mean I agree with the leaks. I can disagree with my parents but I don’t agree that people try to embarrass my parents. That’s two different things although the U.S. is my adopted country.”If someone in your family passed on letters (as in the Wikileaks case where they were supplied with them by an Embassy worker) to a newspaper which showed your family committing fraud or other crimes, yes they should publish them.”--> The truth is: The emotionally troubled 22-year-old Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a British and an American who's charged under military law with leaking classified material, NOT AN EMBASSY WORKER. He belongs to a young and lost generation with no IT ethics.Adrian Lamo, a Calif.-based computer hacker who turned in Bradley to military authorities in May, claimed that he had firsthand knowledge of that someone in the Boston area who worked with WikiLeaks helped Manning set up encryption software to send classified information to WikiLeaks. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38499161/ns/us_news-security/This case has involved a lot of young supporters or hackers.http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200824/Hackers_rally_around_Dutch_WikiLeaks_DDoS_suspect"This is of course assuming your metaphor applied even remotely to a democratic government which is meant to be run FOR the people, how does this work if they tell the people they are doing one thing but actually do another behind closed doors?"--> Politics is complicated. To me, every politician is different just like every ordinary people. Some are wise and loyal to their country but some are loyal to their pockets or not wise. It tells that Americans should vote prudently and think patriotically.Also, I believe not all soldiers’ behaviors in Iraq can represent the U.S. Government or are endorsed by the U.S. Government. Just look at what Manning did! This issue has shown me that it’s an IT world now but there is lack of IT ethics.

I'm not so worried about my family's mail containing evidence of shady dealings, strongarm political bullying, and plots of illegal "sanctions" on a worldwide scale. If the US Government didn't have anything despicable to hide then this wouldn't be a big deal and probably wouldn't have even happened to begin with. The oath of service to the US Government includes protecting the Constitution from DOMESTIC threats as well as foreign, the powers-that-be in this country would certainly qualify as domestic threats if they engage in such activities. That makes all Americans guilty by association of disrupting innocent peoples' lives all over the globe, unless Americans stand up to said powers and support the truth. I am a little saddened that a foreign national beat us to it, but at least Americans now know they have the power to tell the Government they cannot hide their wrongdoing forever.

If someone obtained your family mails when given by a thief and publishes them without your permission to reveal conversations, gossip or loose talks between your own family members and to embarrass you, will you sue them? Don't take advantage of press freedom as a chance to do something illegal and offend others’ privacy. I think Julian Assange is guilty. He is not a hero at all. His supporters are a group of reckless hackers. Now black becomes white; He became Robin Hood. What kind of world is it? The leaked diplomatic documents may interest everyone. I believe every country has secret talks among their diplomats. Maybe those will be more “shocking” than these published illegally by WikiLeaks. What if WikiLeaks obtained every country’s closet talks to show the world? The US would be still a great country compared to others. God bless America!

Let me pose something radical to you, Mr. "Still Proud to Be an American". If the US was above board (honest) in all its dealings, what would it have to be afraid of or embarrassed about? The fact is that the US is and has been spending BILLIONS & BILLIONS of dollars on a phony war in the Middle East not to fight the Taliban, but to secure economic interests such as controlling the land, the pipelines, and eventually the governments of those lands. If we pulled out and defended our domestic soil only, we wouldn't have these problems. THE US IS BANKRUPT - we are no longer the world power. Its time to pull back, fix out own country and stop mucking around in other people's affairs that are none of our business. The US isn't running to do anything about the human atrocities in Darfur, is it? Because Darfur has nothing for us to steal!!!! So you want to hang the person who is exposing all the B.S.????? Julian is a HERO and I will shout it to the mountaintops - the people everywhere need to know the TRUTH about what their governments are really up to, and the day we start hanging people for exposing the truth is the day we have reverted back to Salem Witch Trials.