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2010-09-16 Down Under

Thought police called in to crush freedom of speech

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Posted by anon1 2010-09-16 09:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 See everyone? Forensic investigators. Lawyers. This is Australia. And it is why I like Wikileaks.... Wikileaks means the leak cannot be traced.

Posted by anon1 2010-09-16 09:15|| 2010-09-16 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The leaks can certainly be traced, if the Rann Government had the brains to tweak the individual copies. That is a big "if", I admit.
As for your first point, the Budget's purpose is to tell the citizens what the Government is doing. That would have happened in 24 hours. There are good reasons for Budget secrecy, they contain important and time sensitive information.
And as for WikiLeaks, they reveal my country's allies to it's enemies in wartime. That makes them traitors. So screw Julian Assange with a pineapple, prickles first. And Philip Adams too.

Posted by Grunter 2010-09-16 10:19|| 2010-09-16 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 anon1,
I catch your drift and to a degree its legitimate. But should governments demand that some things remain classified? How about legitimate sources and methods? And when Wikileaks dumps a huge cache of raw data are we to expect that Julian Assange would have the background (or integrity) to filter out information that might reveal such matters? Hopefully, we can at least agree the answer to last question is no.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-09-16 10:50|| 2010-09-16 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 And you thought Australia was a country that valued freedom, free speech? Ptah. We will be a third world country soon.

Mmmm. Yes?

Posted by Ptah 2010-09-16 20:19|| 2010-09-16 20:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Silly Ptah. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-16 20:58|| 2010-09-16 20:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Aussies, we'll race ya to the bottom!

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-09-16 21:34|| 2010-09-16 21:34|| Front Page Top

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