Your reactionary defense of a leftist who aggressively seeks to undermine our country is a great illustration of what sort of world you really want.
Julian Assange is about as "leftist" as Newt Gingrich...
In fact, they most likely playing for the same NWO neo-con team, and are both hell-bent on the complete eradication of National Sovereignty worldwide, and the concentration of power into the hands of about 5000 families.
Soros. Rothschilds, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Oranje-Nassau, on and on and on...
We all know who Assange is taking his marching orders from--there is simply no way he is getting this quantity and sort of information from low-level "whistle-blowers". The most recent "leak" and it's explanation defies all logic to anyone who knows even a TINY amount about how computer systems in secure facilities work.
There is simply NO WAY that an Army Private could waltz into a secure State Department communications facility with a thumb drive and a CD, and start downloading a quarter-million communique's without about a million "red flags" going off. The checks and releases on these systems are so byzantine that to just download ONE such cable would have required a check-off by at least two other people--of only electronically. The bureaucratic timeline required for such an operation would be months. And this "Private" did it in a few hours, and then was allowed to just waltz out the door--thumb drive and CD in hand? Please...
This "leak" came from the top, not the bottom of the intelligence heap. Assange is a useful plant, being played by his puppet masters for the false hope that he will be spared and someday accepted into the ranks of the anointed for his service.
He, too, will be discarded as soon as he outlives his usefulness.
Just like our brave, dedicated veterans have been.
Just like the few good cops in America have been.
Just like the few good judges in America have been.
Just like the people of New Orleans have been.
Just like most of us will be...
Coupled with your demonization of the rich, your unfounded conspiracy BS that our enemies are either manufactured or are morally superior to us. That those serving in our intelligence services are all corrupt, our military is drugged out and mindless, and our media is all propaganda when it doesn't serve your interests in laying the blame for terrorism at the feet of those you accuse.
It's not the "rich" that I demonize. It is the insatiably covetous, eugenics-obsessed, power-hungry, generationally sociopathic, inbred, self-anointed ruling elites that I talk about. And I don't have to work too hard at demonizing them. What else can I say to make a group of people look bad who have openly admitted that they funded the Nazis and the Communists into power, helped the Nazis build, equip, run, and database the "Final Solution", intentionally mislead the public to start EVERY war in the last century and a half JUST so they could pillage the middle classes and consolidate power, have intentionally given millions of children in Third World countries Polio, Syphilis, cancer, smallpox and weaponized influenza. There's not really anything I can say to make these people look bad, when you read their own writings.
Turn off your "playing on a loop" CD of "God Bless America" for a few hours, and go to a library and flip through some back issues of "Foreign Affairs". Go back 10 or 20 years. Adn make some notes. Then explain to me how a small journal published by a private business can be nearly 100% correct on every prediction it has made about economics, politics, and even socio-religious issues--for the last 5 decades?
The game is rigged. Democracy (or in our case, Representative Republicanism) is a sham, and has been for at least half a century in the US--longer in Europe. Voting is no more effective at changing the outcome than cheering for your favorite WWF wrestler--the winners were chosen and the scripts handed out long before you even bought you ticket.
We don't need "change". Our entire society--culturally, spiritually, economically, sexually, politically, legally--is so fundamentally corrupt and without genuine humanity that it simply cannot be fixed. We need a complete system reboot.
I'm just suggesting that when the "reboot" comes, it be those of us on the ground who are re-assembling the world. The last thing we want is for the very sociopaths who messed everything up in the first place be given the task of writing the new "source code for reality."
You're right. We didn't create the Taliban. Everything that Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, both Bush's and Henry Kissenger have EVER written that admitted we did must just be "disinformation"...
And I've been part of the "intelligence community". I've seen how it works from the inside, and although I have never claimed that the ENTIRE system is corrupt, I think it's a pretty safe assertion that it is, by and large, driven more by a desire to preserve the investments and interests of the revolving-door executives and their corporate monopolies on power, force, and control than "national security", and it HAS been that way since the late 1950s.
Ike tried to warn us...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqr5DVx3dw&feature=related
There is no "left" or "right". There is only the ruling elite and everyone else. And YOU are everyone else...
When you have melanoma in 10 years from exposure to DU, defoliants, and a cocktail of unknown chemical weapons, "immunizations", and poison-laden "food", and you try to get health coverage as a Vet, and you are turned away because they have washed their hands of you, then you can tell me how much you believe in "the cause".
You, too, have outlived your usefulness to the system. It's just that you haven't figured it out yet...