More WL point-missing
Wikileaks has an attractive poster:

If wars are started with secrecy and lies ... maybe we can start peace with transparency and openness.

Valid in a broad way but misses the main point on both ends. Oddly, it doesn't even advertise WL's own best purpose.

Wars aren't started by secrets. The push toward war is perfectly open and loud and overmodulated.

Modern wars aren't started by lies AS SUCH. When an aggressor prepares its people to support and fight in an unprovoked attack, the aggressor says basically true things about the victim. The falseness is contained in the DYSLOGIC that develops the true statements into a reason for attack. Consider the unending war in Afghanistan. It's TRUE that our employee Sheikh Osama had some of his bases and training camps there, which we had helped him to build. It's FALSE that those training camps were the CAUSE of 9/11. The SAUDI dudes who committed the crime got most of their support from the Saudi government, which means USA. They trained in Germany, Florida and Oklahoma, with cooperation from FBI. If war was necessary to wipe out the training camps, we should have been making war against Saudi, USA, FBI, Germany, Florida and Oklahoma along with Afghanistan. Deepstate is always making war against Oklahoma, so it's a little surprising that we didn't finish the job there. Florida is, of course, strictly off limits. Florida is a suburb of NYC, and NYC isn't going to make war against NYC.

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On the other end of the claim, it's true that "transparency and openness" can help to break a push toward war ... but only if you're opening the correct doors. Otherwise transparency is wasted or even counterproductive.

The best way to prevent a fight is to show the attacker that he doesn't have a weapon, or can't use his weapons.

Wikileaks accomplishes this goal SPLENDIDLY when it reveals NSA's hacking tricks, allowing anti-virus companies to develop solid defenses. After a Deepstate METHOD is revealed, the METHOD no longer works. The weapon is jammed. Same with the DNC leaks. We could see the criminal conspiracy between DNC and the media demons IN THEIR OWN WORDS, which made it impossible for the media demons to continue claiming "journalism" as an excuse for their omnicide. Before the leak we knew they were conspiring. Now we know exactly HOW they conspire and how they plan and implement their crimes.

Partisans are always agitating for transparency that reveals embarrassing details about the "other" "party". This is a waste, and often serves the enemy's purposes. Bryan Manning's leak wasn't worth the jail time because he didn't reveal any METHODS used by State Dept spies. He only revealed that ambassadors have to negotiate with people they don't like, which is exactly the PROPER JOB of an ambassador or negotiator. The leaks were good publicity for the State Dept, and might have been deliberately engineered.

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Sidenote: WL seems to be fading. They haven't published anything since November, and nothing significant since September. Seems like they're exclusively focused on Assange's court cases.
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