Lol, not really as people still have read and discussing the subject.
Regarding me changing my mind about wikileaks, well you do when you read more about the subject and Julian.
I'll make a very good argument that Wikileaks is a CIA "Limited Hang-Out." You'll have to Google that term if you're unfamiliar with it. I don't want to explain it here.
Here's my argument (people have very short memories)
My 14 Step Program +Bonus to understanding Wikileaks:
1. Wikileaks proves Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Iraq. This should be a "Duh" moment but there's more, of course.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/wikileaks_proves_wmd_found_in.html And? This isn't part of an argument at all! 2. The last Wikileak Leak, which I downloaded (I downloaded this one too) had Osama bin Laden appearing in the first 10 pages (the American readers limit when given hundreds of pages of boring ****) and alive and in charge of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan even though he's very likely been dead for a long, long time.
How would you know where Osama bin Laden is? If you do, I suggest you get on the phone to the US. Also, why do you think Osama crops up nice and early? Perhaps because the American military talks about him a lot? No... couldn't be. 3. If Julian Assange were truly a rogue we ALL KNOW the mainstream media would black him out and they would NOT report anything about anything that he's revealed. Even more importantly, if these leaks were truly damaging to the US not ONE SINGLE media outlet would report them. Heck man, we can't even get these people to report Building Seven. Geraldo did 5 minutes on it 10 YEARS AFTER the event.
Do we ALL KNOW this? No. If these leaks were 'truly damaging' to the US in terms of endangering life then no, the MSM wouldn't report it. But they're not. Would you like them to be? 4. Julian Assange accepts the official version of 911. If that isn't an enormous Red Flag then I don't know what is.
Feel free to let us know how it all happened. Your expertise as a prospective child carer into building demolitions and terrorism is welcome. 5. The overly-emphasized “CIA is after Assange” story in the media rings false. The CIA does not advertise its own agendas and missions, and the media rarely intrudes on their discretion. But here we have something like Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. What’s wrong with this picture?
I haven't heard anything about this. 6. The recent (last week) NYT profile of Assange was originally bylined by Eric Schmitt, then the names were changed. Assange has used Schmitt in the past to communicate. Schmitt is a senior writer on terrorism and national security for the NYT, and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand? 7. Wikileaks reveals that 15,000 more died in Iraq then the US government actually admitted. WTF? The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count reports 43,000; the Iraq Body Count reports 94,000; the Brookings Institute reports 113,000; the Associated Press reports 34,000 and the World Health Organization reports 151,000. Try close to ONE MILLION, per the Lancet several years back. Do I trust the Lancet or some CIA plant? Well, I don’t trust the Lancet either and believe it was well over 1 million; but, I’d trust them over this yackadoodle any day of the week.
....right. So you think every report is false, and that... Assange works for the CIA? I also presume you have some extraordinary evidence for that 'well over 1 million' claim's extraordinary assertion, right? No? Oh. 8. Puhleeze, these guys either aren't too smart or they're playing games because: The contact number on Wikileaks.org has a D.C. area code and is a Verizon cell phone number registered in Adelphi, Maryland. Intellus.com, a Web tracking service, connected the number to a ‘V.A. Reston.’ (give me a ****ing break!) Twenty miles from Adelphi is Reston, VA., home to iDefense Labs, whose web site says it is a "comprehensive provider of security intelligence to governments." The Washington, DC telephone number is also on the same exchange as the newly created "Iraq Study Group" (2005) and the Afghanistan Embassy Of Washington. The Iraq Study Group was designed by the Public Relations Firm hired by the US government to promote the Iraq War to us in the media.
I don't know much about US mobile phones etc, so I'll have to leave this. 9. The WikiLeaks document release reminds many of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Remember, Ellsberg worked for Internal Security Affairs. He was a spook. Ellsberg himself has recently come out to say he thinks the CIA may be targeting Assange. Oh, please.
So, becase someone mentioned in these leaks has mentioned Assange... Assange is therefore working for the CIA? You make wild, ungraceful leaps from premise to conclusion with evidence that is circumstantial at best, missing at worst. 10. Instead of discussion about the revelations in the documents, and questions about why the media did not report this stuff years ago, the takeaway from the latest WikiLeaks release has been a) look, Iran was involved and b) Assange is an alleged rapist and he's a Bad Guy!
And this proves? Nothing apart from the fact that Assange is being targeted (as you deny)... 11. The same people who would have us believe Osama Bin Laden is living in comfort in Pakistan ten years after undergoing dialysis in a Dubai hospital, now bring us globetrotting Julian Assange--- every bit as cartoonish as OBL. The bigger the lie, the more likely people will believe it.
So.... neither Osama nor Assange are real people? 12. Funny how Assange and Ellsberg gave a press conference last Saturday at a hotel located a stone's throw from MI6, where yesterday spy chief Sir John Sawyers gave the first public speech in MI6's 101-year history, defending secrecy in the war against terror. Both press conferences were written up in the NYT by John F. Burns. It's always interesting to learn a little about the guys who write these stories, right? Burns studied Russian at Harvard, Chinese at Cambridge, and later Islamic history at Cambridge. He served as bureau chief in Moscow 1981-84, and is currently London bureau chief. He is married to a woman who is currently the NYT Baghdad bureau chief.
So what? Two people in London speak near one another? IT'S CONNECTED. Some guy tried to sell me coke in Westminister once, that doesn't make him a politician. 13. The CIA DID NOT arrest Assange at the Press Conference outlinesd above. Why not? (MI6 didn't arrest him either but these Keystone Kops are still looking for Osama. Right?).
They need to justify not arresting him? For what? 14. And the single most important factor is that Americans are rubes and if you tell a BIG lie often enough, even if it looks like, smells like and sounds like a lie, they WILL believe it. Think 911 here folks. This is a 21st Century Document Dump 911. A Controlled Demolition of your brain, no thermate necessary. No cell phones, no planes.
THINK FOR YOURSELVES, MAAAAN. All this ****e is predicated on accepting already existing conspiracy theories. It isn't an argument. It's a list of barely circumstantial facts. Bonus: If it's too good to be true it's a lie.
It REALLY pisses me off that people can believe this junk AFTER the events of 911.