It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: CriticalStinker
The silence on this is deafening.
Maddow is yelling about it.
originally posted by: byteshertz
Your rights trump laws and common law trumps Trump, simple as that.
The first amendment is not giving someone a right, it is simply acknowledging that god-given (birthgiven) right exists.
So what are your rights? They are whatever the general agreement is. This is why it is important we don't just agree with every law, bill or act simply because of a piece of paper written by someone WE put in charge creates.
For me, I feel, as humans, we have a right to know what our agencies, including the governments we have created, acting on our behalf are up to. They forcibly take our money to fight these wars through taxation and mandating services such as medical cover to us, the least we deserve is the right to know that money they have taken is not going to further exploitation and corruption for their own agendas.
I believe a reporter has not only the right but an obligation to report whatever the breaking story is. If a reporter can get hold of this information, the enemies can too, so why shoot the reporter and not those in charge of the information and behind the corruption?
originally posted by: JoeGee
originally posted by: byteshertz
Your rights trump laws and common law trumps Trump, simple as that.
The first amendment is not giving someone a right, it is simply acknowledging that god-given (birthgiven) right exists.
So what are your rights? They are whatever the general agreement is. This is why it is important we don't just agree with every law, bill or act simply because of a piece of paper written by someone WE put in charge creates.
For me, I feel, as humans, we have a right to know what our agencies, including the governments we have created, acting on our behalf are up to. They forcibly take our money to fight these wars through taxation and mandating services such as medical cover to us, the least we deserve is the right to know that money they have taken is not going to further exploitation and corruption for their own agendas.
I believe a reporter has not only the right but an obligation to report whatever the breaking story is. If a reporter can get hold of this information, the enemies can too, so why shoot the reporter and not those in charge of the information and behind the corruption?
There's a big problem with this theory pertaining to this specific case. In the case of Snowden, the information he released did not dox and de-source classified names and informants, nor put people at risk. Snowden basically just told the American people that the NSA and America are spying on basically everyone. No one specific was hurt in that drop except Americas reputation.
HOWEVER
In the case of Assange, he released diplomatic cables that listed the names of informants, spies and dissents, which put a lot of American assets and civilians working with America at risk in Afghanistan and other places.
For that, Assange should be locked up under the espionage act for doxing civilians and putting national security at risk.
originally posted by: JoeGee
This is very factually incorrect. Bradley manning was charged under the espionage act.
SO was:
Reality Winner
Edward Snowden
John Kiriakou
Stephen Jin-Woo Kim
Thomas A. Drake
originally posted by: RadioRobert
a reply to: FredT
That doesn't make it right!
originally posted by: FredT
I hate Trump and all of his BS, but the Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan/Carter/Ford administration would have done the same thing IMHO
originally posted by: RadioRobert
a reply to: FredT
That doesn't make it right!
originally posted by: RadioRobert
I didn't know we had to stop trying to fix injustices on the reasoning that some other guy would be bad, too.