Breaking with many of his colleagues in both parties, Republican Congressman Connie Mack of Florida appeared on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano and said that the rush to demonize WikiLeaks is wrong.
“Absolutely, we have a right to know.”
Watch the clip (first half is about the TSA):
Indeed we have a right to know. We need to know how utterly arrogant our government is. We need to know how inane and criminally stupid our government acts on our behalf.
I think we need to know how it is that illegal wars of naked aggression are begun and those that initiated the illegal wars are wandering our planet as free men. We need to know how and why it is that souls are renditioned, detained, and then tortured mercilessly. In secret and then later, to be revealed as FACT. The war crimes sanctioned by our government. We NEED to know.
Julian Assange probably did our world a favor in releasing documents that PROVE beyond all doubt that we are indeed 'ruled' by miscreants and misanthropic clowns that by all rights should be standing in the dock at the ICC. Shackled head to toe and waiting on an international verdict of GUILTY!
A legitimate and even-handed legal process does not presume a particular verdict. So make that,
"Shackled head to toe and waiting on an international verdict."
That said, I would very much like to see George Bush in an orange jumpsuit, serving a life sentence as the head librarian at the George Bush Presidential Library in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Hi jeff:
You make an excellent point. Legitimacy and an even-handed legal process would be absolutely necessary in any prosecution of G. Bush. Or Bushco en masse. I'm sort of not holding my breath on anything as fantastic as a prosecution of Bush.
Holder? Calling Eric Holder? Ummm, say there AG buddy, are you EVER gonna do your job? Oh wait sorry and I forgot. You know, forgot about that 'lickspittle' aspect of being a judicial hack.
Very refreshing. How are the American people to assesss their own govenrment's policies if that same government can keep so much secret. Thank God for Wikileaks! The mainstream press is not much more than press office for the Establishment,
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS is really very bad these days. As United States Citizens we have every right to know what OUR GOVERNMENT… THINKS AND DOES BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL as we have an absolute right to discipline that government even to the point of it being disbanded. No secrets are required in a Free Republic. WIKILEAKS SHOULD BE PRAISED!!!!
Geez, just when you start thinking that Americans are getting the notion that they're only free with sombody's rope around their neck, along comes somebody who hasn't lost sight of the fact that ignorance isn't bliss, and the more you don't know the more in thrall you are to those who do.
If i didn't think that the office would change him, I'd say 'Connie Mack for president'.
We need to re-examine the whole concept of classified information. The Cold Was is over. Communism is dead. The Soviet Union is gone; it is not coming back. There is no existential threat to the United States. What is this so-called classified information about? Exactly how is its release going to endanger the United States? It may embarass some politicians, but so what? The American people have the right to know what their government is doing.
It's supposed to be a government of, by and for the people, but that's not the way it functions. Our elitist political class wants to keep the citizenry (its subjects) in the dark.
Apparently Obama's idea of greater transparency was allowing the TSA to see our naked bodies and allowing the NSA to continue spying on us–and without warrants.
I never thought I would agree with Connie Mack!
Good for Connie Mack. Though he is not a consistent friend of the Liberty movement, he should be given his due when he is right.
Any "conservative" Republican that takes a stand with us, even if they are not consistent, should be encouraged and praised for doing so. Leading is not normal. Most people, especially politicians, will follow only when the costs of following have been reduced. In a large way Congressman Paul, particularly during his last presidential bid, bore much of the initial political/personal "costs" on his shoulders. Now, in light of the success of the "Tea Party", the cost of being another "Ron Paul" have been reduced considerably.
We can only hope more "Connie Macks" will soon emerge within the GOP.