Paul Cavins wrote on Sun, 12 December 2010 12:58 |
The point about people being elected is that they can be unelected.
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can they? can they really?
http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.phpin response to your other points about Assange forcing the issue.....i would say that liberty is always taken away piecemeal until the issue is forced.
America once had to buy all its tea from the East India Company until a bunch of "terrorists" dumped it in the river.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s pacifist approach became a lot more effective once Malcolm X stepped up with something more severe.
if, leaving aside your other thoughts in the validity of Wikileaks, the "powers that be" decide they need to "control" the internet due to Julian Assange's actions, then that is not an indictment of Wikileaks.