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In reply to the discussion: Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever (WOW!) [View all]antigop
(12,778 posts)7. I really thought that Taibbi's recent article alluded to something of this magnitude
I'll try to find it...but the gist of it was, "What if people really understood what is going on? Could they handle the truth?"
When he wrote that, I thought, "He knows something."
<edit to add> Found it...
http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/wikileaks-was-just-a-preview-by-matt-taibbi-rolling-stone/
The secrets are out there and everyone from hackers to journalists to U.S. senators are digging in search of them. Sooner or later, theres going to be a pitched battle, one where the state wont be able to peel off one lone Julian Assange or Bradley Manning and batter him into nothingness. Next time around, itll be a Pentagon Papers-style constitutional crisis, where the publics legitimate right to know will be pitted head-to-head with presidents, generals and CEOs.
My suspicion is that this story will turn out to be less of a simplistic narrative about Orwellian repression than a mortifying journey of self-discovery. There are all sorts of things we both know and dont know about the processes that keep our society running. We know children in Asia are being beaten to keep our sneakers and furniture cheap, we know our access to oil and other raw materials is being secured only by the cooperation of corrupt and vicious dictators, and weve also known for a while now that the anti-terror program they say we need to keep our airports and reservoirs safe involves mass campaigns of extralegal detention and assassination.
We havent had to openly ratify any of these policies because the secret-keepers have done us the favor of making these awful moral choices for us.
But the stink is rising to the surface. Its all coming out. And when it isnt Julian Assange the next time but The New York Times, Der Spiegel and The Guardian standing in the line of fire, the state will probably lose, just as it lost in the Pentagon Papers case, because those organizations will be careful to only publish materials clearly in the public interest theres no conceivable legal justification for keeping us from knowing the policies of our own country (although stranger things have happened).
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antigop
Apr 2013
OP
Seems like if you had 500 trillion dollars, you could buy you way out of any trouble.
bloomington-lib
Apr 2013
#2
Well, that was an ignorant and dickish reply. Thanks for not actually reading my post.
arcane1
Apr 2013
#9
really...? And saying this is a beneficial thing even though it sucks for a majority
fascisthunter
Apr 2013
#17
Another reading comprehension failure. I was talking about understanding financial nomenclature.
arcane1
Apr 2013
#41
Who was it that said "We'll hire 1/2 of the population to enslave the other 1/2"??
99th_Monkey
Apr 2013
#47
I really thought that Taibbi's recent article alluded to something of this magnitude
antigop
Apr 2013
#7
This is the tool that is being put in place and the reason why congress will not create jobs.... We
midnight
Apr 2013
#60
A system of total corruption,. a rigged game, this is capitalism of today.
Civilization2
Apr 2013
#35
You're welcome. Did you see the movie "The Matrix"? That's what it feels like. nt
antigop
Apr 2013
#57