Daniel Ellsberg Sees Bradley Manning's Conviction As The BEGINNING OF THE POLICE STATE

[Adrahil]

8. I will say this....

... there is a difference between whistle-blowing and indiscriminate release of classified information to a 3rd party. Manning would have more of my sympathy is he/she had been more targeted in his/her releases. There really are bad guys in the world, and some of the information Manning released put the people trying to deal with them at risk. That was a mistake.

Unfortunately, the noise over the bad he did has almost completely drowned out the alarm he raised.

I agree with Ellsberg that there is something to be concerned about. As more of life goes wireless, more and more of our life is vulnerable not just to identity thieves, but to those who would interfere without privacy all in the name of security. I mean, just note the ridiculous, and largely ineffective, procedures TSA at the airports.

One answer, of course, is that we need to quit being the World's Policeman and sticking our nose in everywhere. While we're worried about selling more F-16's to the Egyptians, the Chinese are building railroads across Africa. Which one do you think will have more future impact on Global influence?