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Should Wikileaks release Bank of America documents?

Should Wikileaks release Bank of America documents?


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Found this article while wandering the web...

Assange says Swedish accusers in a 'tizzy' - Yahoo! Asia News

Near the end:
Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year.

"We don't want the bank to suffer unless it's called for," Assange told The Times. "But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations," he said, without giving details about the material.

Shares in Bank of America have fallen amid speculation that it was a WikiLeaks target.

So should they release the documents?
 
Hey look, it's Assange acting like an asshole. Who would have expected that....
 
Perfect example of my vigilantism is wrong, who gave him the power to decide whats right and wrong, or who "needs" and doesn't need to suffer.
 
I'm torn on this one... as much as I'm curious to find out what BoA has done, if anything, I'm concerned that it could really damage BoA. If we hadn't bailed them out I probably wouldn't care either way.
 
This guy is a hypocritical asshole of a thug. I'm sick of him flexing his "power" over nations and corporations. I hope he rots in jail for a very long time.
 
If it's anything like the diplomatic cables, the "wrongdoing" is probably entirely in Assange's mind.
 
Wikileaks should be fire bombed like Dresden.
 
I would love to see a corrupt business exposed and destroyed. Then the magical market can prop up a replacement, and set the precedent that if you transgress, you will be punished. Banks should not have some kind of special treatment. If you break laws and hurt people, you pay the price.

Now, if WikiLeaks is just trying to force some kind of leverage, that's equally uncool. Honestly, he shouldn't make it contingent. He should just release the information, so that the guilty can be brought to justice.
 
I would love to see a corrupt business exposed and destroyed. Then the magical market can prop up a replacement, and set the precedent that if you transgress, you will be punished. Banks should not have some kind of special treatment. If you break laws and hurt people, you pay the price.

What makes you think Bank of America is corrupt?

And what "special treatment" are you talking about? The special treatment that a private entity's private papers are . . . private?

I mean, the government would need a warrant to get them, and you think objecting to having them stolen and published is arguing for "special treatment"?
 
Let him play his leverage, just like theyre playing leverage with his sex trial. Which is more about him being the wikileaker than it is about a sex trial. Exposing the corrupt? Fine with me.
 
Bank of America Buying Up “Hundreds” of Web Domains About How They “Suck” to Prepare for WikiLeaks Fallout
Bank of America Buying Up “Hundreds” of Web Domains About How They “Suck” to Prepare for WikiLeaks Fallout | Geekosystem
Examples include such fabulous domain names as BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com. Brian Moynihan, if you didn't know, is the CEO of Bank of America.
Bank of America buys up disparaging domain names ahead of Wikileaks release - National Technology | Examiner.com
seems all the good names were already taken
Bend Over America isn't behaving like an innocent entity
look forward to read what wikileaks chooses to share with us
could it be how the CEO and board actually do suck
 
Bank of America Buying Up “Hundreds” of Web Domains About How They “Suck” to Prepare for WikiLeaks Fallout | Geekosystem

Bank of America buys up disparaging domain names ahead of Wikileaks release - National Technology | Examiner.com
seems all the good names were already taken
Bend Over America isn't behaving like an innocent entity
look forward to read what wikileaks chooses to share with us
could it be how the CEO and board actually do suck

Or they could realize this is a world where people believe Bush planned 9/11 and Obama is a Kenyan muslim and be preparing for the worst.
 
Where is wikileaks releasing this stuff to or from now?

The website is shut down
 
Perfect example of my vigilantism is wrong, who gave him the power to decide whats right and wrong, or who "needs" and doesn't need to suffer.

Good point... Maybe he is just doing for attention since is info is probably running out. He is just trying to bride is way out of everything now..
 
Hey look, it's Assange acting like an asshole. Who would have expected that....

Perfect example of my vigilantism is wrong, who gave him the power to decide whats right and wrong, or who "needs" and doesn't need to suffer.

This guy is a hypocritical asshole of a thug. I'm sick of him flexing his "power" over nations and corporations. I hope he rots in jail for a very long time.

Wikileaks should be fire bombed like Dresden.

I am beginning to think all this negativity extends from a deep-seated inferiority complex. Assange might be doing more with his life than any of you, but that doesn't mean you should be so angry about it.

What makes you think Bank of America is corrupt?

It is a major U.S. banking corporation. That pretty much goes hand-in-hand with being corrupt.
 
Where is wikileaks releasing this stuff to or from now?

The website is shut down

There are a lot of mirrors.

Also to answer OP of course the corrupt should be shown for what it is. I don't understand why the blind do not want to see, sorry for the cliche example but it works.
 
I am beginning to think all this negativity extends from a deep-seated inferiority complex. Assange might be doing more with his life than any of you, but that doesn't mean you should be so angry about it.

How'd you reach that conculsion?
 
Hey look, it's Assange acting like an asshole. Who would have expected that....

Just remember folks, when its your dirty laundry, you can trust Assange Inc.
 
I am beginning to think all this negativity extends from a deep-seated inferiority complex. Assange might be doing more with his life than any of you, but that doesn't mean you should be so angry about it.
No, most of us just disagree with Assange and recognize him as a thug based on his actions and hypocrisy. Forgive me if I doun't sound very humble, but I say this to disprove your assertion that I am not doing much with my life. Right now I'm a junior in a private university with a 3.0+ GPA majoring in molecular biology. I'm have plans to go to pharmacy school and I will be taking the PCAT in January. I work as a pharmacy technician and I'm a full time student. I don't envy Assange, I don't disagree with him because of an inferiority complex. Me, and many others, disagree with him because of the beliefs we hold and the actions that Assange has committed. I wouldn't judge us all that way simply because you don't understand our point of view.
 
I am beginning to think all this negativity extends from a deep-seated inferiority complex. Assange might be doing more with his life than any of you, but that doesn't mean you should be so angry about it.

I believe there was something insightful Irving Kristol once said when asked about the Man of the Century and who would be remembered and why. Some of the negative examples came up, and Kristol believed that with time their legacies would fade. I'll paraphrase from memory the most important part....

"...sure they destroyed a lot, but they created very little."

Seeking fame and destruction is not contributing to society and the global public. For that, there is very little to envy.
 
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I am beginning to think all this negativity extends from a deep-seated inferiority complex. Assange might be doing more with his life than any of you, but that doesn't mean you should be so angry about it.

Or it could be we just don't like people trying to harm our country. Or maybe we don't like how he is playing his blackmail game. Or it could be we actually have morals and look down on those without. I wonder which it is....

Hint: it ain't the inferiority one, and is a combination of the other ones.
 
Or it could be we just don't like people trying to harm our country. Or maybe we don't like how he is playing his blackmail game. Or it could be we actually have morals and look down on those without. I wonder which it is....

Hint: it ain't the inferiority one, and is a combination of the other ones.
I do not think he necessarily is a good man or the way he is releasing such information is a good thing, however, I do think that private information that affect the population should be kept open and public. If Bank of America did something that they do not want public, it should be released to show even companies must be held accountable for their actions. I do not see how it is harming America, just those in charge. It is benefitting the populace by an attempt to make the government that should be in place to be for the people, to have the information open to the people.
 
Or it could be we just don't like people trying to harm our country. Or maybe we don't like how he is playing his blackmail game. Or it could be we actually have morals and look down on those without. I wonder which it is....

Hint: it ain't the inferiority one, and is a combination of the other ones.

I'm not sure how he's playing a blackmailing game? He's just releasing these documents willingly.

Though I like the idea behind Wikileaks, they have not lived up to what I expected. I keep expecting they will come out with a bombshell that will put someone in prison... but instead they just try to humiliate the U.S.

I'll keep reading what they release though... at least until they run out of things to release.
 
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