The Holidays are a wonderful time of year, are they not? There is wonderful snow, jammed roads, commercials that show us that women will pretty much do ANYTHING for diamonds and inflatable Christmas globes in front of houses that contain starving children. The Holidays are the perfect time in America to sit back and look at just how misguided the priorities of the average person truly are. I was hoping that this year would be different than the countless Holidays before, but chances for that are typically slim.
Luckily, this year Julian Assange and the other tireless volunteers at Wikileaks have given us all an early gift; the gift of information. Yes, that is right. Information. And what could be bad about that? Well, there are certainly those that are already saying that this is far worse than bad, this is TERRORISM! Yawn. I mean, YAWN. Americans have been hearing talking heads ramble about these cable leaks for the last 48 hours and have already come to their own conclusions- and that is that they do not have the ability to come to their own conclusions. I heard it with my own ears, a person that makes a living working for a company that makes machines that kill people in wars calling Wikileaks a terrorist organization. That is extremely interesting to me, for very obvious reasons.
See, I was always taught as a kid to not be an asshole to other people. If you know me, you know that I failed pretty hard in that field, but I can certainly acknowledge that I am at times, an asshole. Since I have been able to come to that conclusion, I will use myself in a hypothetical situation. Say I am in second grade, and I am talking while the teacher is talking, using curse words and taking other people's drawings and then drawing underwear on the faces of the people in said drawings*. This could potentially make the kids around me angry. Now, not all of the kids are going to say anything, because they may not want their Big Bird picture to get some BVDs drawn on them, so they sit quiet. However, there may be that one person that is just upset enough that she is going to stop what she is doing and interrupt the teacher to tell her what I am doing. Well, when the teacher made me go sit in the hall, it wasn't because one girl got pissed off enough to tell on me, it was because I was being a snot nosed prick and my own actions got me into trouble. I will be the first to admit that the hypothetical second grade me in this perhaps fictional tale was pretty pissed at the whistleblower that got me into trouble, but at the end of the day I can clearly remember what I was thinking; why in the hell did I do those things? Am I an idiot? It wasn't easy, but I was able to walk over to the girl with the ruined drawing at the end of the day and say, "I'm sorry I drew underwear on your picture, no hard feelings that you told on me". It was quite the life lesson. We all moved on. It was really pretty simple, was it not?
Of course, knowing that Saudi Arabia is a large funder of terrorism, and is pressuring the US to bomb Iran(not to be confused with the hit single by John McCain http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/04/mccain-sings-bomb-bomb-iran.html) or that Yemen and the US have agreed to lie to the public about US war planes bombing targets in Yemen, or the US using Embassies for spying on EVERYONE is much hard to move on from than underwear, but all are pretty shitty(you see what I did there!?)
So, now that we have this information, we have options. Number 1 is that we completely ignore it and watch sports on tv and go to work and talk about how "we" almost won on Sunday. This will be used by most of the pleasantly ignorant public. That's fine, just stop saying "we" you bastards... Option 2 is that we ACTUALLY READ THESE DOCUMENTS OURSELVES AND MAKE OUR OWN JUDGEMENTS. This will not happen on a large scale, but of the 3 options, it is clearly the best. We have the information, so why not bitch and kick and scream at our leaders that are doing all of this fucked up shit so they know its not ok anymore. Its a small chance, but if we tell these turds to actually work FOR US as they pretend they are, then maybe they will. Crazy, I know, the thought of informing ourselves and acting on said information. That would be dumb. Which leads me to number three. GET PISSED! Not at our leaders, but AT WIKILEAKS! Blame the messenger. And don't just shoot them, lock them up at Gitmo and throw away the key!! Call them criminals! Call them terrorists! Make everyone hate them by saying that they are putting innocent troops and diplomats in harms way! Call for their heads! You know what, block off all news outlets that aren't Fox and make the internet completely harmless! Make them pa....
What the fuck, why did you interrupt me, I was ranting and raving and shit! Oh,option three has already happened and the internet is being completely attacked? Obama said that "countless lives are at stake because of this? ICE is taking down bit torrent sites for no reason whatsoever? Really? Way to go America! Blissfully fucking ignorant since 1776!
Read the cables ya dongs!
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
* That story was true. I was a fucking weird little shit in the second grade.
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