Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Saturday, January 01, 2011 9:15:38 AM
Political Fun
By
William D. Dannenmaier
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested in England. Sweden, where he might be jailed, wants him. He has been accused of the crime of visiting two Swedish prostitutes without using condoms. I told male friends at the Cardiac Club to be very careful if they are planning trips to Sweden. If failure to use a condom when hiring a prostitute puts you in prison, what would jay-walking or running a red light do? Actually, I am not pleased with the personal information, such as names and telephone numbers that Assange released. That sort of release should be illegal if it isn’t already.
It is good to know that the nations of the world have important matters to attend to such as the complaints of prostitutes. Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that Mr. Assange has gotten his hands on and published a few million cablegrams our politicians sent one another defaming other world leaders. If I read the reports correctly, Obama’s Attorney General, Holder, is trying to figure out what laws Assange may have broken. I don’t understand this. After all, Obama said he was going to run a transparent government, and Mr. Assange has simply helped him. President Obama appointed, and paid, numerous Czars to further his interests. Shouldn’t he appoint Mr. Assange as Information Czar?
Leaders in European countries including Russia, Sweden and England are enjoying Obama’s discomfort thoroughly. One of them pointed out that it was Mrs. Clinton, also leaked and furious, who criticized China only a year ago for their Internet secrecy. Putin, thoroughly criticized and, possibly, slandered in leaked cables is having a lot of fun talking about the “openness” of the United States democracy. The Liberal media is being rather quiet about it all, they are not certain they want the publication of leaked information considered a crime. After all, they do it all the time and in some cases, have been doing it for decades.
In the interim, computer sympathizers swamped the Swedish Internet system, basically closing down the government.
The person who should be enjoying the WikiLeaks situation more than anyone else is President Bush. It completely exonerates him of making any false charges in his invasion of Iraq. Different cables report the finding of hundreds of caches of chemical and biological weapons with one reporting the sending of 60 tons of nuclear material essential in the production of atomic munitions discovered in Iraq to the United States. So all of those “Bush lied, people died” attacks on Bush’s foreign policy by the half-wits in the news media were, themselves, lies. Bush told the truth: Iraq was a danger to world peace.
I have been puzzled by all of the news articles reporting Obama’s “brilliance.” Beyond his continuation of Bush policies and skill in reading the teleprompter, I’ve heard or read little evidence of it. His records, including school records, are carefully concealed. Then I remember what my father used to say, “Consider the source.” It is the major media types who report his “brilliance.” No wonder! To idiots, IQ 45 or less, a moron, IQ in the sixties, is highly intelligent.
Ezra Klein, a staffer on the Washington Post is reported as saying the United States Constitution is too confusing to understand (Breitbart TV News.video.now, Dec 29). I wonder what parts he doesn’t understand? “The House of Representatives shall be chosen every two years,” or “The Senate shall be composed of two Senators from each State,” or “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” These must be confusing to him. I rest my case about idiots in the major media.