Assange: "Arab scenario" could happen in Balkans

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?

The US defends freedom of speech. The US is also quite good on freedom of information. However, Wikileaks is great because it challenges who has the right to control that information. Wikileaks reflects a strong and widespread belief that these things should not be kept secret.

China is criticised (rightly) for locking up people who do not agree with the one-party system. The US is now coming to face a similar temptation to suppress. How the US faces up to that challenge is interesting to watch.

If they get Assange into a US jail, the US will no longer be able to stand by its claim to be a bastion of freedom and freedom of speech. It will become clear where the true boundaries of freedom are delineated in actuality.

The US does represent a good effort to have a 'land of the free' and to be the leader of the 'free world'. To continue to be able to maintain that claim, the US needs to learn to love Wikileaks. It is inevitable that information will be much more accessible from now on. Trying to to stop the free flow of information will be like trying to keep a nuclear reactor in a sieve. Not much chance.

Although I agree that Wikileaks might have an impact on the revolutions in middle east by showing the public what internet can do to democratize societies, I would warn Mr. Assange about how much of these revolutions started as public effort and how much of it got under the control of the U.S. politics again.

'Arab scenario' next will happen in Serbia. Toma Nikolic has said that.

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
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Everything. They can use this backward thinking to manipulate people into doing what they need them to do in order to achieve their objective there, namely have control of the country through weak and corrupt politicians.

Can't imagine why you haven't looked at it from this perspective.

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?

Although I agree that Wikileaks might have an impact on the revolutions in middle east by showing the public what internet can do to democratize societies, I would warn Mr. Assange about how much of these revolutions started as public effort and how much of it got under the control of the U.S. politics again.

'Arab scenario' next will happen in Serbia. Toma Nikolic has said that.

The US defends freedom of speech. The US is also quite good on freedom of information. However, Wikileaks is great because it challenges who has the right to control that information. Wikileaks reflects a strong and widespread belief that these things should not be kept secret.

China is criticised (rightly) for locking up people who do not agree with the one-party system. The US is now coming to face a similar temptation to suppress. How the US faces up to that challenge is interesting to watch.

If they get Assange into a US jail, the US will no longer be able to stand by its claim to be a bastion of freedom and freedom of speech. It will become clear where the true boundaries of freedom are delineated in actuality.

The US does represent a good effort to have a 'land of the free' and to be the leader of the 'free world'. To continue to be able to maintain that claim, the US needs to learn to love Wikileaks. It is inevitable that information will be much more accessible from now on. Trying to to stop the free flow of information will be like trying to keep a nuclear reactor in a sieve. Not much chance.

Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
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Everything. They can use this backward thinking to manipulate people into doing what they need them to do in order to achieve their objective there, namely have control of the country through weak and corrupt politicians.

Can't imagine why you haven't looked at it from this perspective.