12th December 2010, 10:30 AM
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Ron Paul gets it right here. The US has NO "State Secrets" act, and never has, and thus revealing them can't be considered treason. That's not least because to be treason you have to BE a US Citizen.
Really though, when it gets right down to it, people demanding the execution of some internet guy are just rattling their sabres just to be heard, just to get people excited, then he, of course, WON'T be executed (one guy wouldn't stop it anyway, wikileaks is more than just one person), only promising more sabre rattling in the future whenever they want to seem "tough on crime" (nonexistent though it may be).
Ron Paul gets it right here. The US has NO "State Secrets" act, and never has, and thus revealing them can't be considered treason. That's not least because to be treason you have to BE a US Citizen.
Really though, when it gets right down to it, people demanding the execution of some internet guy are just rattling their sabres just to be heard, just to get people excited, then he, of course, WON'T be executed (one guy wouldn't stop it anyway, wikileaks is more than just one person), only promising more sabre rattling in the future whenever they want to seem "tough on crime" (nonexistent though it may be).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)