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In reply to the discussion: ---so what you are saying, is we would be BETTER OFF --- NOT KNOWING THESE THINGS?: [View all]pnwmom
(109,023 posts)19. Are you implying that all 250,000 cables Manning indiscriminately released contained
information that we were better off knowing?
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---so what you are saying, is we would be BETTER OFF --- NOT KNOWING THESE THINGS?: [View all]
kpete
Aug 2013
OP
It's the classic authoritarian argument. Let your leaders take care of you.
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#31
They're protecting us from our own traitorous and untrustworthy minds.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#5
How do you know what was leaked? Read about it somewheres? Care to share your
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#32
Msg 2 Obama: I'm all grown up now, and don't need "protection" from the truth. ~nt
99th_Monkey
Aug 2013
#11
The chopper video did it for me too. I can understand being gungho and wanting to
A Simple Game
Aug 2013
#25
If you watched the long version, near the end, there was a guy just walking down a sidewalk...
xocet
Aug 2013
#39
Are you implying that all 250,000 cables Manning indiscriminately released contained
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#19
None of this will be stopped until people worry more about what the Country as a whole is doing
A Simple Game
Aug 2013
#30
It would be uncivil to amplify the sentiment indicated by the word "impressive", wouldn't it?
xocet
Aug 2013
#55
Well, I ask, are we better off knowing these things. Since knowing...no more income, no job for
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
#37
If the Bush administration had prosecuted Manning, then no- Obama administration, yes
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#51