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Establishment Republicans Introduce Bill to Criminalize Wikileaks

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New York Rep. Peter King has exploited the hysteria surrounding the Wikileaks case to introduce legislation to make it illegal to publish the names of American intelligence sources who provide information to the US military or intelligence community, according to Homeland Security Today.

King has called Assange a terrorist and demands Eric Holder and the Justice Department deal with him.

HR 6506, called the SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination), is a companion bill to a Senate bill introduced earlier this month by senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), John Ensign (R-Nev.), and Scott Brown (R-Mass.). Both bills would amend U.S. Code Title 18 Section 798, also called the Espionage Act, to provide legal protections that already apply to communications intelligence to human intelligence sources.


“Julian Assange and his cronies, in their effort to hinder our war efforts, are creating a hit list for our enemies by publishing the names of our human intelligence sources,” Ensign said in a statement. “Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up against the tyranny of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and murderous regimes, and I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of Julian Assange. Let me be very clear, Wikileaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist.”
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  • carslut
  • sound5ystem
  • 2hellnwait
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • And these were supposed to be the Republican new bloods?

      They seem awfully similar to the last bunch of authoritarian fuckheads.

      No, I take that back. They seem a lot worse.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
  • Saladin
    • +1
      Saladin  
    • Dagum:

      I have to admit, I'm operating under false pretenses.

      There is no "new blood" in my opinion. I'm not that dumb. These people are all the same.

      Still disgusting though. Why in the hell do people keep reelecting Lieberman?

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
    • -1
      Dagum  
    • Saladin:

      Why he keeps getting elected is beyond me. I can't think of any political persuasion that would find Joe lieberman appealing. Maybe the people of Connecticut vote for him out of habit.

      I know in the state where I live the elderly voters love pork. I overheard a discussion by some old folks about how they dislike Senator X and much preferred his primary challenger. But despite detesting Senator X and his polices, they voted for him anyway, because he was a Senior Senator on a powerful committee and had a good track record of earmarking federal money for projects in the state.

      It seems an odd way to vote, but the baby boomer generation doesn't necessarily care about principles, all they care about is bringing home the bacon. And these greedy old fucks are the ones who vote politicians that they personally and politically loathe into office for promise of federally funded rewards.

    • 1 year ago
  • coxian_armada
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Wow. You know this same type of slanderous Criminal Libel must be
      unprecdented in American History before now, right ? And all those
      folks who were burned at the stake during colonial times being falsely
      accused as Witches in Salem, Massachusetts ...You know those who
      were presumed guilty until proven innocent so long as someone falsely
      accused them of such an emotionaly loaded slander that they'd react
      with mob hysteria, then shoot first and ask questions of the dead later..
      That could never happen in America, right ? And during the Cold War
      in the 1950s, whenever some politician wanted to use his words as
      weapons to further repression, they would never Slander anyone as
      a Communist, because Discrimination in equal employment opportunity
      by blacklisting, that could never happen in America either, right ?

      This Fascist pig who's disgraced our home State of New York, can't be
      an honest lawyer, if he's a lawyer at all, because if he were, he'd know
      that deiliberate, malicious Criminal Libel per se is an unclassified Felony
      against our laws. (meaning it's a class E Felony punishable by minimum
      1 year to maximum 4 years in a New York Prison, ). And worse, being
      a Felony, it qualifies as part of the Racketeering pattern of crimes.
      Also, assumably not being a lawyer, he wouldn't know that the Supreme
      Court has ruled that " reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of any
      defamation constitutes actual malice", even for a public figure like him.

      Odd isn't it ? That the Racketeering profile of mass Murder 1 in Afghanistan
      is exactly what Julian Assange is combating by blowing the whistle on
      the Corporate Gummint.., That this Fascist Rep. who attempts to defend
      the Corporate Gummint's "privilege" to use Americans as cannon fodder
      and to kill civilian non combatants in War Crimes or be killed, somehow has
      the moral high ground to himself back the CIA's terrorism, yet project
      that slanderous Criminal Libel on the one man who oppossed this Tryany.
      What the Fascist Rep disgracing New York is defending is Corporate
      Gummint Slavery of us, and Piracy for the Corporations who've bought
      & paid fpr his seat. His puppetmasters own HIS ass, but they don't won mine.

      Have you folks ever seen the photo of the Chinese citizen who stood alone
      in front of the tank at Tienamin Square in the early 1990s ? Julian vs the
      Juggernaut War Machine. The one we never wanted, but the one we were
      forced to work to pay for anyway. Because to this Fascist Rep. we are only
      a nation of unmoneyed slaves or the privileged few, overrun by invaders.
      No secret that Mr. Fascist Rep. wanted to board the gravy train which the
      internatnational cartel of Banksters' Fed has printed up $14 Billion of bogus
      currency for him to get his cut to lavish on himself so that he can pretend he's
      a Corporate Gummint pit bull so concerned about our Liberty & Justice. Barf.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • sffsmessiah
  • BoB__Yandenberlom
  • freecrack
  • Perplexed_Rapture
  • PressCore
    • +3
      PressCore  
    • http://money.sh

      Hey MILF fans everywhere. THAT is the real monster they call Palin
      the Saracuda. The photo you see depicted above shows her fugly,
      malicious attack dog face without the fascade of her smiling for
      the cameras thinking of only the money.she and her ilk would be
      fleecing from you suckers Ie. That's her " true " face, malicious,
      and in bad faith, as she realy is. How do you like your Hitlerite
      bitch now, fools ? Not quite the savory immage you would have
      prefered her to have put on to continue her con for you now, is it ?

    • 1 year ago
  • Gigi_Jurado
  • toastyguy11
  • Vierotchka
  • PressCore
    • -1
      PressCore  
    • Vierotchka:

      The hair I consider to be only a prop, the same as a wig. Take away the hair,
      and any other perceptual allusion to sexuality, and you'll see a 40ish, bald,
      fugly female who appears as though she's giving the proletariat their weekly
      propaganda pep talk from Orwell's 1984 scenario. How the war without end
      against Islandia or Eurasia is progressing with fewer casualties for us vs them...
      How production of war materials is up... So that We the pauper Proles' bread
      & water rations are increased to portions you can actualy see..Usual jungle rot...

      They say in Hades, the damned souls only know painful suffering, and the
      " gnashing of teeth " Unless I'm living in one of Einstein's Quantum Parallel
      Universes different than everyone else here on Current.com, I get the distinct
      impression that, in that photo you provided, Vierotchka, the Saracuda is
      gnashing her teeth. I regard her gnashing her teeth as poeticly appropriate.
      She's publicly claimed: " Americans should consider being drafted to fight
      for God in Iraq as a heavenly blessing " Since she's so insane as to believe
      War is a crusade for God... That the World Big Oil Monopoly IS God. That
      being a Corporate Slave to be fed to the meat grinder of War is some sacred
      privilege like an Aztec human sacrifrice to their Sun God...She's straight out
      of hell, all right. Her grinding her teeth now, rabid bitch that she is, is only a
      dress rehersal for the real thing after she croaks.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • freecrack
  • PressCore
  • im1mjrpain
  • PressCore
    • 0
      PressCore  
    • im1mjrpain:

      Birds of a feather flock together. In the modern day we call that guilt
      by association. Barak Obama is garbage. Rham Emanuelle is garbage.
      I loathed and despised Ronald Reagan, but I'll be the first to admit he
      had some people of genuine character in his Cabinet, George Shultz
      amongst them...But the idea you can trust whatever Racketeers like
      Obama & Emanuelle purport to be true is absurd. Both are rotten to
      the core.

    • 1 year ago
  • olddogdaddy
  • fun_size
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
  • Ana_Ceballos
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      Ana_Ceballos  
    • Assange will never be considered a terrorist on the eyes of the public only government. If exposing the truth about what the government is actually doing with the our country is an act of terrorism, then the government is afraid the people will realize what they're actually doing, which is something worth hiding.

    • 1 year ago
  • fun_size
  • Gigi_Jurado
  • toastyguy11
  • KSirys
  • KSirys
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
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      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
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    • If Americans do not begin now to form alliances to resist government tyranny we will lose what remains of our freedom. We will even lose our lives!

      We must prepare now to resist the real enemy; the international banking elites and their puppets in the District of Criminals!

      Voting is a joke. Continuing to participate in the false political system will gain nothing. We must form a strong resistance now.

      http://www.scribd.com/doc/387846/The-Anarchist-Cook-Book

    • 1 year ago
  • AJILIVIZION
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
    • -1
      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
    • AJILIVIZION:

      Agreed! I certainly have a lot to learn about the various concerns we will face if, indeed, violence does become the only option.

      As I stated previously, my statement is more about my personal frustration, than a call for a violent revolution.

      My time is best spent listening/learning about what will, short of a violent revolt, address our collective discontent.

    • 1 year ago
  • im1mjrpain
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      im1mjrpain  
    • GLOBALPOLITICAL:

      What we need is a peaceful revolution. People need to share information and come together. Forget about Democrat/Republican, forget about liberal/conservative, we are all losing our rights together. Damn if people can't see the FACT that right now we are living in history and our country is going through a period of dynamic change then they are just lost.

      This is the Change Obama had in mind when he promised change.

    • 1 year ago
  • toastyguy11
  • toastyguy11
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • VoyagerFilms
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      VoyagerFilms  
    • I think Rep. Peter King should be dealt with. He is Republican, is there any more to say? He is holding Americans, by far the majority of Americans hostage and depriving them of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Prosecute him and the rest for a breach of contract and failure to uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    • 1 year ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • There will no doubt be overwhelming bi-partisan support on this just like there was on the TARP bailout, the Patriot Act, FISA ect.

      Anything that has to do with taking from us, there won't be much opposition.

    • 1 year ago
  • fun_size
  • PressCore
    • +5
      PressCore  
    • In the first place all non defensive War is Government sponsored
      Organized Crime. So these 3 crooks' attempt in abusing the civil legal
      establishment to protect their Corporate overlords' efforts to prosecute
      their joint Organized Crime & War Crimes in countries like Afghanistan
      is NAZISM. And they're attempts to market their shit with a slick acronym
      like SHIELD, only reflects their hyper aggressive NAZISM. The Taliban
      is real enough. But the so called " terrorist " organization they call Al
      Queda is truthfuly only a scrabble parlor game name for " the CIA " in
      Arabic. These crooks know the typical mind controlled American doesn't
      understand their con, so they keep on plying us with their Hitlerite Big Lie.

      The truth of the matter is that Wilileaks IS a whistle blower website. And
      that Julian Assange IS a Journalist in the digital age. News flash 3 crooked
      turds: The 1st Amendment foreswears Congress from making ANY
      establishment regarding Speech, Press, or Assembly. That means no
      member of Congress, nor any Conspiracy of these 3 crooked members
      of Congress, nor all 535 members standing in unison, giving a standing
      ovation to Geroge Bush Jr. in 2001 exhorting them to join his false flag,
      paranoid scitzophrenic hysteria proclaiming: " All who are not with us are
      against us " as Chancellor Hitler did in Germany during the 1930s. The
      History channel has made 2 documentaries proving these exact Historical
      parallels are so directly connected, it's old news to all but the apathetic ignorant.

      It's well known that Lieberman is a modern day Jewish NAZI. Which is
      why Hitler Bush chose him to chair his new DHS. I have a legal complaint
      against Lieberman for the Aggravated Harassment crime he inflicted
      on me by criminaly abusing the TV airwaves at the Republican National
      Convention during Summer 2008 which is a Federal Crime, in addition
      to being a crime against our New York Criminal Statutes, his interstate
      broadcast, made it a Federal crime. Because his criminal broadcast
      Recklessly Endangered My Life in the 1st degree, as a truck driver who's
      been forced to work despite a PTSD disability caused by the CIA Felony
      Assaulting me in March 1976. His criminal broadcast disrupted my driving
      so badly it caused me to have a vehicular accident that same day because
      of Lieberman's depraved indifference to my, and others' public safety on
      the roads of NY. Lieberman has yet to pay for his Felonies, but so long
      as he ls outside the State of New York's reach, our Statute of Limitations
      on his 1st degree Felony will not make the clock tick it's 5 year countdown.

      WE the PEOPLE will not allow the CIA to prosecute illegal non defensive
      wars, under false pretenses, in foreign countries so the Corporate Piracy
      they use the U.S. military to serve as a vehicle for, can plunder the Oil,
      natural gas, food, drugs, Llithium, Platinim ,Gold, Sillver, Copper, and Real
      Estate by invading Afghanistan. WE the PEOPLE will not allow the CIA to
      frame Julian Assange on phony rape charges to silence his Journalistic
      efforts to abate crooked Government sponsored Corporate Organized
      Crime they're in league with through the CIA, who Al Queda is. Not by
      having the CIA's bitch operative Slander him publicly, Libel him publicly,
      nor make willful false written statements to the Swedish authorities to trick
      them into activating their legal process to institute the CIA/Al Queda's
      malicious criminal prosecution.

      Why do you think Lieberman wants Nobama to shut down the Internet ?
      It's because he knows that in the digital age, Internet access is publicly
      regarded as a Constitutional right. Name me even one County library
      ANYWHERE in ANY State of the USA that doesn't use publicly granted
      funds to make Internet connected computers available on request to their
      patrons. The way Hitler used to seize control of Germany was to end their
      Free Press. The Internet, more than the foreign Newspapers it links to
      all the world's countries' citizens, is the last bastion of uncensored news
      anywhere. Genuine Liberty to the people of China, Russia, the USA,
      everywhere...The Internet is a World Free Press affiliation not owned by the
      intntl. Bankster cartel, their NWO elitists, or their mob of criminal minions.

      I get Dish network satellite TV service. On the HD net channels, they
      preceed the TV series Smallville with adverts for Dan Rather Reports.
      One American soldier, Marine or regular Army, has revealed that he
      killed (2) 8 year old girls using mortar rounds " following orders ". We
      forget so soon that in the Judgement at Nurenburg, that's the defense
      the Nazi soldiers attempted to use to prove they were under duress for
      killing civilians as war crimes. And who are the civilian turds on " our side "
      disgracing our country ? You'll never again be reelected assholes. This
      country is nearly in a Depression due to a stalled economy caused 1.
      By your Corporate overlords puppeteering you to misappropriate public
      tax money to fund these illegal non defensive foreign wars bleeding us
      to death. And 2. By your misappropriating Amercan citizens as cannon
      fodder to kill or be killed to foster Corporate Slavery & Piracy . You 3
      cockroaches/your npredecessors did the same thing in Vietnam & Iraq.
      We won't be fooled again. And you will be exposed. If not by Julian Assange,
      by someone else to take his place. Our days of living under the yoke of
      your Tyrany are as numbered as your corruption in office. Count on it.
      I'll sign my name to my complaint against you Lieberman so large that
      you can read, it even with your myopia, fool.

    • 1 year ago
  • div
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      div  
    • Why don't they just tell the truth. They don't want to criminalize wikilieaks, they want to criminalize anyone telling citizens the truth about their governments.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • Big shocker here, the republicans have something to hide. What would happen of the dark secrets of the GOP were discovered? Would their frothing followers leave them? Would there be criminal charges? Or would nothing change, just another fuck up that the abused and batered people of this nation take in stride and then go back. Its like we are stuck in an abusive relationship, but the well meaning boy freind who trys to be good to us, just isnt bad like the ex, so we take the old one back get beat, loose all our money and then listen when he say "please baby just one more chance"

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • littlwarrior
    • +2
      littlwarrior  
    • GLOBALPOLITICAL:

      this is true, we need to reset our government. Out with every last single solitary old, do away with all the lobbyists, and start fresh. Hell maybe even abolish all laws and start with just the constitution and the first like 11 amendments.

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
    • +2
      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
    • littlwarrior:

      I don't think anything will change with without a compete revolt by the people. Unfortunately, most Americans are still asleep while a few courageous activists are on the front lines battling the establishment, risking their "physical" freedom and life each day.

      Nothing will change until we reach a critical mass in the country.

      I have given up on trying to persuade the politicians to do anything. They are all corrupt.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • GLOBALPOLITICAL:

      critical mass will never be achieved while the masses are so complacent. The problem with our country is that people just don't care anymore. If the day ever comes when the government has pushed her people to far and they finally do rise against her I am afraid it will be to late and the damage beyond repair.

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
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      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
    • littlwarrior:

      Agreed! I think Americans need to gather their guns, march to Washington, and forcibly remove the criminals from their positions of power.

      I hate to admit it, but I don't see another option. The so called "representatives" do not listen the American people!

      They only do what the international bankers pay them to do.

    • 1 year ago
  • AJILIVIZION
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      AJILIVIZION  
    • GLOBALPOLITICAL:

      A Co-Evolution will not be brought on through violent methods. As someone who seeks to live in a better tomorrow, we must lay a foundation that those in the future will admire and appreciate for years to come, rather then suffer from grief and guilt. I know violence will break out soon, but for the leaders of tomorrow, the strategies of the last millennia will not work. Simply consider the hold on media and information these corporatists have. Attempting a violent over-throw could easily be distorted, preventing it from gaining any support. People must collectively disobey the broken legal system, in order to overwhelm law enforcement and the judicial branch of government. Crack away at these institutions until they crumble on themselves. I speak vaguely of what I predict the collapse to look like, but only because I haven't got it all figured out just yet. Believe me, I'm working on it.

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • AJILIVIZION
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      AJILIVIZION  
    • GLOBALPOLITICAL:

      Thank you. Though I will say, youtube playlists have not had nearly as much put into them as I would have liked. I hope to have my own site up and running no later then May of 2011. It will be the headquarters for everything that is being accumulated and worked on. The youtube playlists serve as the original videos that I am putting into my own larger piece. I do my own filming, it is just efficient to use what has already been produced, especially when done so well. I'm even working on my own artwork and music. I am preparing my very own digital bible.

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
    • +2
      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
    • AJILIVIZION:

      Everything is always a work in progress. Your YouTube Channel is both interesting in content and design.

      Please keep me posted as your plans for your website develop.

      I enjoy meeting new friends. I hope you will stay in touch.

    • 1 year ago
  • olddogdaddy
  • toastyguy11
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • EdJoyProductions
  • telcod
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      telcod  
    • Let the Nigerians take care of it. They seem pretty good at identifying criminals, like Dick Cheney, these days.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
    • +7
      Dagum  
    • Peter king and Joe Lieberman need to be stopped. Tyranny in this country advances faster and faster everyday, and these Assholes think they're some sort of patriots by being the harbingers of the police state.

    • 1 year ago
  • telcod
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