Maslow's Political Blog

Ron Paul has gone a long way down from being a legitimate independent thinker in 2000 to being another politician hoping for a political victory to a real crisis.  Paul ventured to ask nine questions about WikiLeaks, and made clear ahead of time he intended to defend the leaks as legitimate and righteous. This is not an impossible task, nor is it necessarily wrong.  My personal struggle with Wikileaks is that the original idea is awesome, but Assange is a dick and the way the information was leaked was basically negligent, and the information itself was either diplomatic chatter that wasn't meant for public ears (because it is just chatter) or frighteningly important information that ought to have been kept secret.  Very little of it is valuable information whose leakage doesn't endanger common people.  The only thing that comes to mind for me is the British-US agreement to keep American cluster bombs on British soil despite in defiance of an international treaty ...

This is part 1 in a 2 part post.  Part 2 will respond to Ron Paul's ridiculous " 9 questions ." Julian Assange is an absolute idiot.  There, I said it.  I now know of a man more dangerous and ridiculous than Glenn Beck.  And oh my God is he more dangerous by far! Julian Assange began with a decent idea.  He wanted to make information more readily available.  Unfortunately, he completely underestimated the importance of secrecy, and seems to have made the grave mistake of believing anything secret is inherently sinister. By trying to make the world a more transparent place, he in fact made it wildly more dangerous.  Anyone who was unaware backdoor deals happen is foolhardy and anyone who thinks they are always bad is far too cynical for their own good.  Preconditions to negotiations are equally regular.  Anyone who doesn't realize governments often do one thing while they say another greatly simplify world politics, and an...