Thom's blog - Tuesday December 28th, 2010
By shawnt56
You need to know this. While much of the media’s focus has been on Julian Assange over the last few months – there’s been little attention focused on a soldier who sits in solitary confinement in Virginia – Bradley Manning. Manning is the fellow suspected of leaking the original classified documents to Wikileaks. He was caught after he started conversing online with a notorious hacker named Adrian Lamo. After Manning admitted the leak – Lamo turned him over to authorities. Now – it’s these chat logs between Lamo and Manning that are receiving a lot of attention as federal investigators and other journalists try to determine if Julian Assange assisted Bradley Manning in any way with releasing the classified documents. If Assange is implicated – he could be charged with conspiracy by the Department of Justice. The magazine “Wired” reportedly is in possession of these chat logs but the editor Kevin Poulson had decided not to publish them. That decision has many other journalists outraged – and wondering what the motivations are for not disclosing this information.
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Tom,
Indeed we need to start talking about defending all of those associated with producing the documents revealing our governments fraud, deception and illegal acts. What I would like you to mention on the air, however, the next time you refer to the problem of libertarians, is my new book described below. Why? To let people know that one way to challenge the insanity is to better understand it and another is to recognize the libertarian may be out to lunch, but he/she is not a bad person. In this book I invited the most famous libertarian scholar to write a book with me IF he was willing to argue "cooperatively." He did, the book is published, and we have become "disagreeing friends," though we found common ground to build on. This book is highly readable and I want you to be the first to talk about it:
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I think that number of people who dont want to work and or would rather spend their time drunk or high is much closer to 15 or 20 percent...easily