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Running Scared[W:49]

Re: Running Scared

I have really two problems with Wikileaks. The first is if they're acting as a NGO cutout for the Russians, we have a right to shut it down - the U.S. doesn't have to put up with foreign governments interfering in our elections, or to facilitate or turn a blind eye to the release of hacked emails no matter who criminally stole them - it's a crime. Imagine if it was your emails/phone calls/medical records, etc. and someone says they're going to release them on a daily basis for the next week. Damn right we'd all be calling the cops trying like hell to get it stopped, and if they can the police SHOULD stop the releases.

Obviously that doesn't affect whether the press should report on the leaks - from where they sit the only thing that matters is if they're genuine. How or where they were obtained doesn't matter to journalists.

Second, it's fine to cheer transparency, but we're getting massive dumps of correspondence from one candidate and....nothing from the other. One candidate has released 30 straight tax returns, the other none. Obviously Assange doesn't have to be fair and balanced, but we also don't have to pretend that it's sunlight he's shooting for - he has a partisan agenda, and the indiscriminate dumping of massive emails without any examination of what is in the public interest and what isn't is reckless and not "journalism" by any stretch. So I don't respect him or what he's doing or the way he's going about it and would be happy if he's shut down, but ultimately that's irrelevant. The stuff he releases is fair game for reporting.

The only thing fair about this election is that an outside entity is evening up the positions of a very ridiculously biased group plotting against the American people. That is exactly what this is. The American people are being betrayed by our current President and Executive office and by the media. It isn't fair. So for that in an of itself, I say Assange, bring it on. Hillary is so corrupt and Barack Obama is equally as corrupt and now I believe half of the Executive office if not the whole are conspirators acting against the great people of this nation.

We deserve the truth and if it won't come from within then let it come from Russia or Ecuador or wherever. There should be no hiding from the truth!
 
Re: Running Scared

The only thing fair about this election is that an outside entity is evening up the positions of a very ridiculously biased group plotting against the American people. That is exactly what this is. The American people are being betrayed by our current President and Executive office and by the media. It isn't fair. So for that in an of itself, I say Assange, bring it on. Hillary is so corrupt and Barack Obama is equally as corrupt and now I believe half of the Executive office if not the whole are conspirators acting against the great people of this nation.

We deserve the truth and if it won't come from within then let it come from Russia or Ecuador or wherever. There should be no hiding from the truth!

And the point was we're only getting the "truth" from the Clinton side. We aren't seeing the thousands of emails from Trump and his campaign, we can't see his tax returns, we don't know anything about Trump's businesses. We haven't seen all of Pence's emails from his time as Governor released, the thousands of emails from his inner circle. Same with emails from Bannon as publisher of Breitbart, Etc.
 
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