SecurityUSA, World: WikiLeaks: Black farm scandal and WikiLeaks converge in our perceptive vortex

Reporter and nooz analyst Caroline May, in Daily Caller,  DC (, Dec9,2k10), give us the scoop on web-impressario publisher Andrew Breitbart and the Pigford Tles regarding the Black Farm Scandal, "Why are USDA officials off the hook in case of bias against black farm ers?" Patrik Jonsson (Dec8,2k10) Christian Sc+ence Monitor.

The coming weeks will find Breitbart’s site, Biggovernment.com, replete with exposes, research papers, and opinion pieces on Pigford designed to fill in the gaps he and anti-Pigford whistleblowers — such as Jimmy Dismuke, a black farmer who actually experienced discrimination, Minnesota Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann and former Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer — believe the government and media have overlooked.

Indeed there have been reports that USDA employees and FBI officials estimate that the number of fraudulent claims from Pigford — exacerbated by ambitious trial lawyers and community organizers — range from 50 percent to 95 percent.

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One distinguished friend says, "There are suggestions that Wikileaks may be fronting, or being fed, by some group which is against peace in the Middle East  (building up the pressure for war against Iran while undermining the credibility of the Arab and indeed the Turkish leadership) -- certainly if one disregards all the noise and chaff, there may well be something in this. e that is the picture which is emerging (the dog which did not bark).  But I may be proved wrong by future 'revelations' and they keep threatening to reveal material which will embarrass Israel, but up to now it is the dog that did not bark (quote Sherlock Holmes rather than Alice in Wonderland),"  Hat Tip:  JI 


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The Economist > ongoing feature dossier American politics: Democracy in America (Nov29,2k10) "In defence of WikiLeaks" by "W.W." located iin Iowa City, a university-industried town in corn country.

If secrecy is necessary for national security and effective diplomacy, it is also inevitable that the prerogative of secrecy will be used to hide the misdeeds of the permanent state and its privileged agents. I suspect that there is no scheme of government oversight that will not eventually come under the indirect control of the generals, spies, and foreign-service officers it is meant to oversee. Organisations such as WikiLeaks, which are philosophically opposed to state secrecy and which operate as much as is possible outside the global nation-state system, may be the best we can hope for in the way of promoting the climate of transparency and accountability necessary for authentically liberal democracy. Some folks ask,

"Who elected Julian Assange?" 

The answer is nobody did, which is, ironically, why WikiLeaks is able to improve the quality of our democracy. Of course, those jealously protective of the privileges of unaccountable state power will tell us that people will die if we can read their email, but so what? Different people, maybe more people, will die if we can't.

...the wildspaces of terror, it's framed all too anti-statist for m+ taste, have an antipasto ...



The foregoing by "W.W. in Iowa City" (I think its hometown to the University of Iowa with a huge fan-based footbhall team, prominent in the College Football series on TV).  Better check out my factoids!

--  inauthentically liberal democratic schmatic, Christian-democratic, Christian-social, reformational-democratic but yours, Politicarp.