<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yeah, some anti-gay right wing outfit did exactly that for Nader in 2004... and Nader's defense -- he was debating Howard Dean on NPR at the time -- was that Right wing Republicans have as much right as progressives to support good policy!!!<div><br></div><div>Re Wikileaks as a project of the CIA, I don't see it... and neutralizing Assange would be unacceptable to too many (Where's Jack Ruby when ya really need him, huh??) It's easy to start imagining things, tho'... e g wondering if the package from Yemen was a plant, either from Israel to get sympathy, or from the Obama camp to make him and the Dems look good before the election (in which case, I hope it works). </div><div> --Jenifer</div><div><br><div><div><div>--- On <b>Sat, 10/30/10, Ron Szoke <i><r-szoke@illinois.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16,
255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ron Szoke <r-szoke@illinois.edu><br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Ineptitude of US assassination squads (& Wikileaks challenges existing power relations)<br>To: "Stuart Levy" <slevy@ncsa.illinois.edu><br>Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 8:47 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Indeed, the failure (so far) of US Black Ops to kill Assange (perhaps in <br>the manner of Israeli death squads, as Goldberg suggests) has led to the <br>speculation in some quarters that Wikileaks is actually a disinformation <br>project of the CIA, designed to disguise or distract from some even more <br>nefarious operation. <br><br>Most people are utterly naive about such things, not knowing -- & <br>preferring not to know -- when they are being "played like a fiddle."<br><br>Examples closer to home are the recruitment & funding of
Green Party <br>candidates in Colorado by the Republicans in the expectation that they <br>will draw votes away from the Democrats, & recent reports of similar <br>tactics by some Democrats in supporting Libertarian & Constitutionalist <br>Party candidates, with a corresponding expectation. <br><br>This gimmick may have worked well in Florida in 2000, but as far as I <br>know, nothing has been conclusively proved.<br><br>-- Ron<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><br>