Full Transcript for my Segment on Whistleblowing, Snowden, Manning, Assange and Greenwald

[ljm2002]

17. "What I said is really an IQ test and a test"...

..."of how sane and reasonable you are when you hear it."

In other words: If you agree with my points you are intelligent, sane and reasonable; otherwise, you are not.

Way to open a debate on the topic. Of course you are not really interested in opening a debate, rather your goal is to promote your name and your show. Which is okay as far as it goes, but not okay when you post things that are designed to tout how obviously right you are on the topic and to preemptively shut down debate about it.

What I do find interesting about all this is how you are able to ignore some irrefutable facts, namely: the whistle-blowers who followed protocols were unable to cause a broad discussion of the issues -- war crimes in Manning's case, and the surveillance state in Snowden's case. Manning and Snowden both spurred awareness and debates on topics where others had tried and failed.

So regardless of all the hand wringing about how they coulda shoulda done it differently, I say bravo to both of them because they found a way to effectively get their messages out.