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Ok, I made that up.
But the real story is lame. Apparently, some upstarts @ WikiLeaks are unhappy with their boss, Julian Assange's, leadership style. Their rallying cry? "If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself." Their solution? Openleaks, a WikiLeaks rival.
Seriously?
Sounds kinda corny to me. But beyond corniness are these guys gonna volunteer for the thinly veiled US government-sponsored smear campaign? Are they gonna line up (or queue up for Brit readers) for bogus rape charges and jail time? Will they take the assassin's bullet? I think it would be smarter to keep Assange out front whilst you quietly do your work.
The other criticism of the upstarts is even more suspect--they are complaining that Assange is moving WikiLeaks along "too fast." Sounds vaguely familiar. Sort of like the Civil Rights movement detractors. "Slow down" they said. "We need more time." (No, i'm not comparing WikiLeaks to Civil Rights. I am just making a point about the conservative posturing of the Openleaks upstarts).
But that's what happens when you have a good business model (or, perhaps, when your underlings are paid off by the government?). Now everyone wants Leaks. I just read somewhere that a disgruntled woman at WikiLeaks has announced plans to start up FemiLeaks. Latino's will soon clamour for LatinoLeaks. Asians will demand AsianLeaks and so on.
But seriously, few people on the planet have been more oppressed by their own government than African Americans. Much of that oppression was brutal and is well documented (slavery, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, Jim Crow, sun down towns, redlining, vagrancy laws, war on drugs, racial profiling, police brutality, Clarence Thomas). Some of it is still ongoing. But a lot of it was sponsored by COINTELPRO and remains "classified" information. If anyone on the planet merits "transparency" from their government it would be African Americans.
AfroLeaks might not be a bad idea after all.
Ok, I'm done. You can read the actual story @ WikiLeaks rival plans Monday launch after internal split, founders say - CNN.com
Also dig:
- Lynch Law in Georgia: A report by Ida B. Wells
- White Pathology 101: JSU Lynching Exhibit
- Church Committee Report by Bill Moyers
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton
tags: wikileaks, civil rights, the United States, cointelpro, fbi,
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