Reply #39: Oh yes, the old "yelling fire in a theatre" canard

[Bragi]

You are allowed to yell "fire" when you think there may be a fire and people are at risk. Similarly, people can and should leak secret government information when they know it
is just a cover for lies that are harming people and the nation.

e.g. -- We now know from the cables released by Wikileaks that the U.S government is fully aware that the war in Afghanistan is being lost, and that the regime being propped up by the war is irrevocably corrupt. Now that these truths are in the open, perhaps the administration will be forced to abandon this harmful war earlier than otherwise. The laudatory result of this totally justified exercise of First amendment rights will be lives saved and harm reduction.

- B