Miserable

Yeah, I didn't post anything in December. I know. You all probably thought I forgot about you, but I didn't. Whether you love me, hate me, disagree with me, or like what I have to say, I still like each and every one of you, but fighting with a cold and the holiday rush, there was little chance I was going to get many of you to stop long enough to read what I had to say. That being said, the month gave me plenty of time to recharge and come up with new things to talk about. This time around it's that ever popular demon du jour, Wikileaks.



I'm not going to get too heavily into the minutiae involved in this. The whole Assange 'sex crime' case seems a bit too Bourne-like for me to begin contemplating it. Jilted lover, pissed off fuck buddy, victim, to me it honestly doesn't matter. It's a side show and a distraction from the actual point. I don't give a shit what anyone thinks of Assange as a person and as I'm not a lawyer, it's not my duty to defend him.

What is interesting to me is exactly how fucking scared the government was when their so-called secrets started to spill all over the series of tubes. So much for a more transparent government. When someone forces them to fulfill their promises, they get pissed. People aren't supposed to remember campaign promises! Their attention spans are too fucking short to be able to haul the government up by their own petards like that!

 The actual content is fairly interesting in and of itself, and I'd recommend that anyone who gives half a shit about what goes on around them, spend some eye-bleeding hours and go read it. Yes, most of it is dry, boring shit, but suffer. You'll be better off for it.

I do love the concept of individual citizens holding governments responsible for their actions, and I'm not talking in the hippie peace-loving sit-in do-jack-shit-for-real way. I mean in gathering as much crap as possible that the government wants to hide, and I mean every fucking government out there, all of them, and putting the spotlight on it. Obviously the regular news can't do this any more. The most they can do is report what they are told to and tell heartfelt stories about sick kids with puppies between who got shot and how your computer is going to rape your kid. The whole of the traditional news establishment could only act in reaction to the story, instead of creating it themselves. Wikileaks caught them with their pants down too, and now they're pissed as well. This is why they've made it impossible to discuss the concept without also dragging up Assange and his personal failings, be they legitimate or not.

You can bet money that were this a US citizen that tried this, they'd be in a deep hole so fast that the vacuum might actually collapse a portion of the physical world. In fact, one did. Manning. He's the guy that no one is really talking about, the supposed source of the actual leak. Odds are, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison before it ever gets to trial. A lesson for all you little people that think you're big enough to take on your Daddy, oh I'm sorry, I mean Government.

Am I being outlandish and a bit hyperbolic in this? Probably, but I believe the situation warrants such a response. Here we have a group of people standing up for the freedom of information, speech and the press, and there's not a damn thing that most people are going to bother doing to try and follow the trail now blazed. Too many are content to sit there, read their newspaper, play their video games, fuck their wife and do everything possible to distract themselves and ignore the giant cock in their ass. It's not like it's really that important right?

So what if giant corporations promote a small band of 'revolutionaries' who want to take over a country, just so they get a cheaper price on the natural resources there? Who cares if the UN lets it's troops stick their dicks into underprivileged, under aged pussies at the walls of their camps with the protection of diplomatic immunity? Why should it matter that China cuts off all access to information for it's citizens, while at the same time buys up all of the US's national debt? And really, since when has a faith-based initiative taken by a group of people half a world away really ever affected me?

It's a known fact, commonly held belief and even punchline to a grand cosmic joke that we all know politicians lie. They lie about what they do, what they stand for, who they fuck, who gives them money, what they really think of people, what they want to do, so on and so on. If these people were lurking in a dark alley you wouldn't walk down it, so why the fuck do we keep putting them in office?

You want to know who I'd love to see elected? It'll never happen, I promise you. People are far too fucking ignorant, willfully so, to vote for this person, but, I'd love to see a purple haired, tattooed, pierced, transexual, pagan, living in a polyamorous house, that works as a professional call girl and that is willing to spill the beans on every shady, underhanded deed all over the internet elected. I would fucking cream my pants. At least that individual is being completely fucking honest and not trying to be what they're not, hiding behind a lying smile, telling us to their face that they're trustworthy while sticking a knife into every back presented to them.

In summation, it's my usual rant. The government can eat a dick, politicians can suck the balls, and I hope that people start shitting over all of them by ripping the lies right out of them and putting them up for the world to see. I don't care where you're from or which government it is, all of them are as rotten as a year-old apple and a bottle of green milk. I want as many iterations of Wikileaks as there are of any social networking site.

I leave you with this quote while I go try and cool off:

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people. -Justice Hugo L. Black