Faint Praise
By Mitch Berg
The ragged edges of liberty often involve defending the lowest form of scum who benefit from it.
So as repulsed as I am by Julian Assange and “WikiLeaks'” release of leaked diplomatic communications, I’m not behind the government’s efforts to try to find some way – any way – to try him as a spy.
It just doesn’t work.
Still, with defenders like this, who needs enemies:
This is worrying some members of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, who wrote a letter to Holder and President Obama urging restraint. Professor Todd Gitlin, who signed the letter, says freedom of the press is at stake.
Assange should try to get them to just shut up…
December 20th, 2010 at 10:17 am
I was under the impression CSJ wrote the policy manual for the DOJ.
December 20th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Leftists and anarchists will argue that Assanges activities do not constitute espianage because his leaks do not directly favor one country over another.
I’ll buy that when he starts publishing documents from China, N. Korea, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.
December 20th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Swift: You’re learning the lesson. All things, even treason, ought to be weighed on the scale of Equal Opportunity. Welcome to our Brave New World.
December 20th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Assange’s lawyer is outraged, OUTRAGED that someone leaked his clients police records.
Irony or karma?
December 20th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Assange’s lawyer is outraged, OUTRAGED that someone leaked his clients police records.
I was waiting for this to happen. Makes me smile a little.
December 20th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Makes me smile a lot.
December 20th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I was under the impression CSJ wrote the policy manual for the DOJ.
Nonsense, mr. Stink. That policy manual was written by the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR).
CAIR’s headline today?