[Peace-discuss] Double-think in the ideological institutions

[Rohn Koester]

Compare this to Assange's comment in an online chat published by the Guardian today:
 
"The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be 'free' because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade."
 
[via the IOZ blog, original: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks]

 
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:58:26 -0600
> From: galliher at illinois.edu
> To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Double-think in the ideological institutions
> 
> The Wikileaks documents expose the contempt for democracy in the US government.
> 
> The theme continues in the commentary:
> 
> today the NYT runs an op-ed from an emeritus professor of history at the 
> University of Illinois, who writes "...diplomatic correspondence and 
> negotiations ... ought to be released only after passions have settled and 
> scholars [like - guess who?] can examine the records in fuller context." Then 
> comes the killer:
> 
> "Especially in a democracy [sic - otherwise the unwashed get to comment, instead 
> of just dying], the goal of negotiations should be to secretly reach an 
> agreement..."
> 
> You can't make this stuff up - unless you're George Orwell.
> 
> 
> 
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